Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790730530 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 6304458894 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: November 11, 1997 Running Time: 106 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1996 Sales Rank: 14280
Amazon.com essential video: 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 theaters. 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 humor 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. The digital video disc features an isolated track for Danny Elfman's score, as well as a few other clever and nasty little Martian surprises. --Jim Emerson
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Rating: - One of the best Sci-Fi movies ever!!
As far as I am concerned, this is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time! The Martians surround Earth with flying saucers, and begin to "cleanse" the planet of it's villans. They have "Come In Peace", ... Read More
Rating: - mars attacks
this movie is always funny and we get a kick out of watching it. It was sent in a timely manner and arrived on time. It is good too to do business with Amazon and the people that they have registered too. ... Read More
Rating: - Mars Attacks!
At first I thought it was dumb, then I thought it was awsome!
This has many actors in it and many funny parts.
Including: Many are incinerated. Martians kill congress and the president. S.J.P. ... Read More
Rating: - Mars Attack
i have seen this movie at least four times before i bought the dvd. it is a great movie. lots of laughs. great all around entertainment. the right actors are correctly chosen for their corresponding parts.
Rating: - "Funny Lookin Little Critters Ain't They?"
Yeah, I get that Tim Burton's star studded MARS ATTACKS! is a spoof of 1950's sci-fi movies but I still don't find this to be a very amusing film. And I know it is all comic book violence/black comedy but there ... Read More
- One of the best Sci-Fi movies ever!!
- "Funny Lookin Little Critters Ain't They?"