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Mars Attacks!

  • 6.4 /10

  • 5337

  • 56%

Plot

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

Cast

Jack Nicholson as President Dale / Art Land
Jack Nicholson

as President Dale / Art Land

Glenn Close as Marsha Dale
Glenn Close

as Marsha Dale

Annette Bening as Barbara Land
Annette Bening

as Barbara Land

Pierce Brosnan as Donald Kessler
Pierce Brosnan

as Donald Kessler

Danny DeVito as Rude Gambler
Danny DeVito

as Rude Gambler

Martin Short as Jerry Ross
Martin Short

as Jerry Ross

Sarah Jessica Parker as Nathalie Lake
Sarah Jessica Parker

as Nathalie Lake

Michael J. Fox as Jason Stone
Michael J. Fox

as Jason Stone

Rod Steiger as General Decker
Rod Steiger

as General Decker

Tom Jones as Tom Jones
Tom Jones

as Tom Jones

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG-13

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • December 13, 1996

Production Companies

  • Warner Bros. Pictures

  • Tim Burton Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Français

Budget

  • $70,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $101,371,017.00

Runtime

  • 1.77 hrs

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Reviews

Good watch, could watch again, but it's hard to honestly recommend. This is one of those movies that is good because it is bad, whether or not that is done on purpose, for the purposes of parody. Otherwise it's just a good old jump in "The Way Back Machine" to see a litany of cameos or cheap parts by almost anyone who was famous in the mid-1990s. Though I do feel like most of the actors I li…

**A film full of black humor, and for that very reason difficult to digest for many people.** Black humor is doomed to be understood by very few, and this film, which is drenched in black humor from beginning to end, paid the price, becoming a minor failure. I believe that, even today, it is one of the less well-appreciated films of director Tim Burton's career, who made films considerably wor…