About this product

Product Information

Three creatures from another planet visit Earth and cause chaos.

Product Identifiers

ProducerLarry J. Franco, Tim Burton

EAN7321900144803

eBay Product ID (ePID)3939130

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleMars Attacks!

ActorAnnette Bening, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Short, Lukas Haas, Tom Jones, Jack Nicholson, Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox, Joe Don Baker, Glenn Close, Lisa Marie, Christina Applegate, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito

DirectorTim Burton

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Croatian\Czech\English\Greek\Hungarian\Icelandic\Polish\Turkish

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

Release Year1998

FeaturesWidescreen, Interactive Menu\Production Notes\Scene Access, With Subtitles

Aspect RatioWide Screen

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time102 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate12A/12

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Director of PhotographyPeter Suschitzky

Costume DesignerColleen Atwood

Production DesignerWynn Thomas

ReviewsVariety - ...[A] continually inventive, parodistic sendup of alien invasion movies....The technically brilliant picture possesses a quirkily, somewhat facetious insider tone..., Entertainment Weekly - "...[A] giddily satiric epic....Escalates into full Burtonian madness..." -- Rating: B+

AuthorNorm Saunders, Bob Powell, Wally Wood, Woody Gelman, Len Brown

Additional InformationDirector Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly "vaporize" a gathering of unfortunate Earthlings, kicking off a bizarre high-tech war with wild special effects. This studiously campy sci-fi spoof, based on a series of Topps bubble-gum cards, gleefully parodies not only schlock B-horror movies, but also overblown blockbusters such as INDEPENDENCE DAY. This subversive film is helped along by an all-star cast including Jack Nicholson in dual roles as both a clueless U.S. President (with First Lady Glenn Close) and a Las Vegas sleazebag. The film follows the wacky WAR OF THE WORLD--like proceedings from the points of view of numerous colorful characters, from the inane U.S. Press Secretary (Martin Short) to a trailer-park family (Lukas Haas and Sylvia Sidney), singer Tom Jones (as himself).

Movie/TV TitleMars Attacks!

ComposerDanny Elfman

Sound sourceDolby Surround 5.1

ScreenwriterJonathan Gems

EditorChris Lebenzon