Mars Attacks!
by Tim Burton
List Price:
Our Price: $7.99
You Save: $1.99 (20%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $1.98 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Annette Bening, Glenn Close, Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica ParkerDirector: Tim Burton
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Larry J. Franco
Writer: Bob Powell
Writer: Jonathan Gems
Writer: Len Brown
Writer: Norman Saunders
Writer: Wally Wood
Writer: Woody Gelman
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Mars Attacks!
DVD Review: Wacky Science Fiction!
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoy this film. It is weird, quirky and fun! It is the current favorite of my young son even though it has some scary scenes when the aliens (with classic big brains!) fry the humans and turn them into skeletons. There are lots of cameos in this film which just add to its overall entertainment factor! It is just all around fun! DVD Review: Good, clean fun
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not a big comedy fan, but I needed a laugh this week so I watched Mars Attacks--something I've been meaning to do for years. I've always remembered that the trailer made the movie appear to be utterly demented--and in this I was not disappointed. The combination of big-name dramatic stars, cheesy special effects, brilliantly bug-eyed Martians, '50's-style spooky sci-fi score, and completely over-the-top slapstick and sight gags made for an unforgettable film. The initial firefight in the Nevada desert, and the White House infiltration scene sporting a Martian dressed as a '50s glamor girl, complete with bouffant, are particular high points.
A very refreshing aspect of this movie, unlike most comedy efforts of this genre in the last couple of decades, is that it's almost completely devoid of bathroom or sexual humor. Of course there's violence--lots and lots of violence--but it's so ridiculously overdone that I have trouble imagining that anyone could take offense at it.
If you like your humor highly physical and not at all witty or subtle, but don't particularly prefer wallowing in the toilet or gutter, this is your film.
DVD Review: Outstanding Entertainment; Burton's Most Underrated Film
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wild movie! I've begun to appreciate this more and more with multiple viewings. I think it's Tim Burton's most underrated film. Unlike many of his previous films, this seems pretty impartial when it comes to the satire: everyone gets it here, not just the usual Christians.
Here, New Ane devotees and Liberal advisers and generals are also made to look stupid. This is probably one reason the national critics - who are overwhelming Left Wing - didn't like this movie. They weren't used to the same abuse some of us put up with all the time.
Politics aside, this is one funny movie. It's a combination of science fiction, drama and comedy. It's a parody of the 1950s flying saucer films except it has 1990s color and good special-effects. Burton was a fan of those corny '50s sci-fi films so he made his own!
The story quickly moves from one character to another, from the low-key President of the U.S. played by an unusually-reserved Jack Nicholson to the wacky New Ager Annette Benning to Martin Short with his goofy smile....well, there are so many characters here - most of them completely wacked - it's too many to mention. The diversity of these people and the subtle humor in which they are all presented is just as much fun to watch as the special-effects.
The Martians, meanwhile, are a real hoot. They have to be seen to be believed.
I didn't like all the characters but, most people won't either. For me, showing elderly people as senile (Sylvia Sidney's role) is mean-spirited; Rod Steiger has the stereotypical war-mongering General is getting tiresome and the obvious politically-correct role for Jim Brown also went overboard.
All in all, however, this is about as entertaining a film as I have ever found, nd one that gets more enjoyable with each viewing.....which is why I rate it so high. I'd be anxious to see a sharp Blu-Ray transfer of this some day.
DVD Review: excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
This product was awesome, in excellent shape. Shipping from seller was fast and efficient. My family loves this movie and we really enjoyed it. Thanks again. Would definately purchase from seller again. DVD Review: Excellent cast wasted--but I hope they had fun
Summary: 1 Stars
BEWARE OF SPOILERS
I watched this ridiculous scfi spoof of aliens in flying saucers invading earth starring Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, Sarah Jessica Parker, Glenn Close, football's Jim Brown and even little Natalie Portman on Comcast's On Demand. It was...well, as bad as the movies it was spoofing. Yet I watched the whole thing because I wondered what the gimmick would be that killed off the Martians. Earth viruses or bacteria a la "The War of the Worlds"? Nuclear weapons? The milk of human kindness? Divine love? The cross of Christianity or the crescent of Islam? No...
DEVASTATING SPOILER TO COME!!!! BEWARE!!!!----->
...no, it was Country and Western music. I shuck you not.
I am hereby revealing the ending and the funny, ha, ha gimmick as a public service so that you will not be seduced into watching this and thereby wasting what precious time you have left when you could be otherwise gainfully employed, say by playing along on the Game Network Channel or going to the "Going Out of Business" sales at Linens and Things or Circuit City or listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio or Howard Stern, or even reading your spam emails.
Yes, I did try to see the High Camp and appreciate the wonderful cast and realize that this is a comedy and that I should chill out, have a little fun, laugh a little and don't be so High Brow. But I failed. Miserably. But one thing I did get out of this picture is the answer to the trivia question: what was the worse movie that Jack Nicholson ever played in? That would be the same as the answer to the question What was the worse movie that Annette Bening ever played in?
"Mars Bars Attack" might have been better. Chocolate bars with guns a-blazing coming out of the flying saucers--now that might have been funny. Or not. And, by the way, everybody knows that in an alien movie with luscious alien babes, you never, but never, but never kiss her. But no, Martin Short has never seen an alien movie with luscious alien babes in it and so he tries a little tongue action with Lisa Marie and boy did he ever get burned! Ha, ha, ha.
Description of Mars Attacks!
In this sci fi epic martian spaceships are approaching earth. Should the president bomb them or embrace them? from the opening scene in a town called lockjaw where a blazing fire sprints the road to the apocalyptic finale youll never know what to expect sophomoric funniness black humor or a genuine fright. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/07/2004 Starring: Jack Nicholson Annette Bening Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Tim BurtonIt'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. --Jim Emerson
Pierce Brosnan DVDs
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Bestsellers in Pierce Brosnan DVDs
James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 2 (A View to a Kill / Thunderball / Die Another Day / The Spy Who Loved Me / Licence to Kill)BROSNAN,PIERCE; Release date: 2006-11-07; DVD
Best price: $24.99
Price in other shops:
Mars Attacks!Warner Brothers; Release date: 2004-06-01; DVD
Best price: $3.37
Price in other shops:
GoldenEyeTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-02-06; DVD
Best price: $6.42
Price in other shops:
Dante's PeakUNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 1998-02-10; DVD
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
James Bond Ultimate Collector's SetTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-11-06; DVD
Best price: $114.50
Price in other shops:
James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 1 (The Man with the Golden Gun / Goldfinger / The World Is Not Enough / Diamonds Are Forever / The Living Daylights)JAMES BOND-ULTIMATE COLLECTION; Release date: 2006-11-07; DVD
Best price: $28.00
Price in other shops:
James Clavell's Noble HouseLions Gate; Release date: 2008-03-25; DVD
Best price: $8.63
Price in other shops:
![Dante's Peak [HD DVD] Image](/images/Dante-Peak-HD-DVD-B000Q66QAG-X.jpg)
Dante's Peak [HD DVD]UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2007-07-10; DVD
Best price: $3.09
Price in other shops:
The Thomas Crown AffairTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2000-01-04; DVD
Best price: $4.21
Price in other shops:
Thomas & Friends: The Great DiscoveryLions Gate; Release date: 2008-09-09; DVD
Best price: $5.48
Price in other shops:
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
The Nightmare Before ChristmasRelease date: 1997-12-03; DVD
Best price: $68.99
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Widescreen Edition)none; Release date: 2006-01-31; DVD
Best price: $3.63
Price in other shops:
The Day the Earth Stood StillRENNIE,MICHAEL; Release date: 2003-03-04; DVD
Best price: $6.38
Price in other shops:
Independence Day (Five Star Collection)Release date: 2000-06-27; DVD
Best price: $8.92
Price in other shops:
ConeheadsParamount; Release date: 2001-04-17; DVD
Best price: $4.65
Price in other shops:
Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)DEPP,JOHNNY; Release date: 2000-09-05; DVD
Best price: $6.72
Price in other shops:
Ed Wood (Special Edition)Release date: 2004-10-19; DVD
Best price: $9.28
Price in other shops:
Sleepy HollowDEPP,JOHNNY; Release date: 2000-05-23; DVD
Best price: $6.17
Price in other shops:
Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-09-16; DVD
Best price: $5.90
Price in other shops:
Galaxy QuestALLEN,TIM; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $4.15
Price in other shops: