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  • Actors: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, Glenn Close
  • Directors: Tim Burton
  • Writers: Bob Powell, Jonathan Gems, Len Brown, Norman Saunders, Wally Wood
  • Producers: Larry J. Franco
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Turkish, Hungarian, Polish, Icelandic, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Greek
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 11 May 1998
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CWNJ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,682 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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It's enlightening to view Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! as his twisted satire of the blockbuster film Independence Day, which was released earlier the same year, although the movies were in production simultaneously. Burton's eye-popping, schlock tribute to 1950s UFO movies actually plays better on video than it did in cinemas. The idea of invading aliens ray-gunning the big-name movie stars in the cast is a cleverly subversive one, and the bulb-headed, funny-sounding animated Martians are pretty nifty, but it all seemed to be spread thin on the big screen. On video, however, the movie's kooky humour seems a bit more concentrated. The Earth actors (most of whom get zapped or kidnapped for alien science experiments) include Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rod Steiger, Michael J Fox, Lukas Haas, Jim Brown, Tom Jones and Pam Grier. --Jim Emerson

Special Features
Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Surround 5.1 English
Dolby Surround 5.1
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Arabic\Croatian\Czech\English\Greek\Hungarian\Icelandic\Polish\Turkish


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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Take us to your leader - so we can blow him away !, 19 Jul 2000
By "chrishyams" - See all my reviews
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It's difficult not to be fond Tim Burton's big-budget 50's sci-fi spoof Mars Attacks (1996).

The lead actors were clearly having a real laugh whilst making this, with hilariously cheesy over-acting and some great one-liners. Amid the mayhem, you don't really care what happens to most of these characters anyway, most of whom come to a gory end, but towards the end of the film, you'll want to get in there yourself to sort out the vicious little Martian creeps.

The admittedly shaky plot is pretty secondary to the excellent visual effects, and there is an eery 50's-esque score underlying the whole film, which is a good touch.

The scheming, skeletal aliens have a genuinely nasty look about them, whilst also coming across as quite comic, and go about their murderous human annihilation / experimentation with a twisted glee. In fact they are the most unsympathetic aliens to have graced our movie-screens since H R Giger's ultra-aggressive 'Alien' back in 1979.

The 50's B-Movie cliches are used to full-effect, with body-pulverising ray guns, saucer-shaped spacecraft and large-brained/puny-bodied aliens running riot throughout.

You just cannot take Mars Attacks too seriously (as did the producers of Independence Day in the same year), so if you'd like to see half the US Presidential Administration and Chiefs of Staff wiped-out within 90 minutes, this is your movie !

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars WICKEDLY WACKY..., 5 Nov 2002
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mars Attacks! [VHS] [1997] (VHS Tape)
Tim Burton outdoes himself with this silly, but funny, spoof of 1950s flying saucer/alien invasion movies. It is absolutely zany and quite funny. There is also nothing politically correct about it, as there are no sacred cows. The film is totally irreverent of American culture and icons. Everything and everyone is fair game.

Martians have come to Earth, and they do not come in peace. Diabolical and deadly, they are bent on wreaking havoc wherever they go with their death ray guns, which serve to incinerate living beings. These bulbous headed martians with their own brand of deadly humour are hell bent on destroying Earth, while laughing and cackling maniacally.

The special effects are meant to to be reminiscent of those found in 1950s UFO flicks and in this it certainly succeeds. The cast is stellar with Jack Nicholson playing dual roles, that of President James Dale and that of entrepreneur Art Land. Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Jim Brown, Natalie Portman, Sylvia Sydney, Paul Winfield, Pam Grier, Lisa Marie, Christine Applegate, Lukas Haas, and Tom Jones round out the star studded cast. With tongue in cheek performances, the viewer is bound to get a good laugh out of this film.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Ak ak ak aK AK! They came in peace?, 12 Jul 2006
By T. Bobley "Tibley Bobley" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Nasty, lying little brutes! Why, over the last (when did H G Wells write War of the Worlds?) 100 or more years have these vindictive hooligans kept attacking us? This time they pretended to be our friends. How did they know the "romance" and "pharmaceuticals" and rock and roll had turned us all silly - turned us into hippies and new age crystal-spinners who might be gullible enough to believe them?

It's a very funny film. I'm blessed (or cursed) with a childish sense of humour and that may be why 'Mars Attacks!' has such appeal for me. And there's a stellar cast here who must also share this unsophisticated sense of humour, judging by the way they abandoned all decorum and dived right in to their comical roles. (Every one of them deserved an award in my opinion.) Another reason this film appeals to me is that I grew up in the 70s when the world seemed to be full of those nice-but-dim folk who were looking for something to believe in and anything would do: benign space aliens, crystals, spirits, lay lines, pyramids - you name it. Those days have passed and now we just have SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) casting about for friendly aliens to come and show us the way. If they're out there, they'd better be careful, because after all these books and films that warn us of the consequences of trusting strange aliens, no doubt our governments will blast first and ask questions later. But what if nukes don't work? What horrible music, beloved of grannies will destroy our alien enemies? There's so much to choose from.
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5.0 out of 5 stars We come in peace - ak ak ak ak
"Mars Attacks" is a wonderfully funny and bizarre send up that should appeal to all ages. My 9 year old son was well amused by it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by L. Davidson

1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent cast wasted--but I hope they had fun
BEWARE OF SPOILERS

I watched this ridiculous scfi spoof of aliens in flying saucers invading earth starring Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, Sarah Jessica Parker,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dennis Littrell

5.0 out of 5 stars It a Tim Burton film nuf said!!
this is really fun to watch and really funny as well especially SJP when she has the body of a dog and Brosnan's head danglen on sum wires!! Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Grigg

5.0 out of 5 stars Way
There's a reason why you rarely see this in shops, simply put, it's so good that it probably sells out every time it goes on the shelves. Read more
Published 21 months ago by tommymuldy

2.0 out of 5 stars No way
There's a reason why you rarely see this repeated on TV or even in shops, Simply put, it's crap. I saw this at the cinema and wanted to leave. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Sandman

5.0 out of 5 stars Spoof on American paranoia
This is a spoof on American paranoia. Creative license is derived from 'V' with similarities with the Martians implying that "We come in peace"
Other inspirations are 'War... Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2007 by Jay

5.0 out of 5 stars I guess it wasn't the dove
To me, this is America learning to laugh at itsself as it's time as the world's top military and ecconomic power lurches towards an end. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2007 by David R. Bishop

5.0 out of 5 stars And again!
Nothing to add but a star as MAcks didn't seem to get a 5 anywhere. Why is it so funny? (a) character design (b) tacky special fx (c) and above all, MAcks is an essay in... Read more
Published on 1 April 2007 by T. de Souza

4.0 out of 5 stars Burton Attacks!
Well it works on some levels. Yes we do 'get' the satire, that doesn't mean to say that it's good satire or that it hit it's targets on many occasions. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2004 by R Jess

4.0 out of 5 stars WICKEDLY WACKY...
Tim Burton outdoes himself with this silly, but funny, spoof of 1950s flying saucer/alien invasion movies. It is absolutely zany and quite funny. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2003 by Lawyeraau

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