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		List Price: $9.98		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 13013 Released: October 28, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/28/2008 Rating: Pg13

Mars Attacks! Reviews:
a great non-serious sci-fi/action/comedy
2009-12-19 - i just watched my regular dvd on a blu ray system. it is much better that way. there are a few movies that excel on a blu ray system. and these movies should be released on blu ray. i'm sure jurasic park, and spawn will be great on blu ray and constantine is better on blu ray. [i'm, also, hoping to see: LOTR- extended, eight legged freaks, evolution, and killer klowns from outer space on blu ray]
this is a comedy which is made to parody fifties sci-fi movies. there are many big named movie people in this film; but i think it would have been as good with no name actors. great amounts of action and special effects have been added.
'an unsuspecting world has just realized that many space ships have just arrived from mars. the real brainy people (specifically: pierce brosnan ) say: "oh, they're intellectually advanced so they must be peaceful and highly enlightened." which strokes our ego because we [ that is: regular people] know that exploration is not for altruistic reasons but for some kind of personal gain. and this is extremely exacerbated by our understanding that the brainy people continue to blunder rather than admit they were wrong. the brainy people find an excuse to blame us [we the regular 'stupid' humans] as the fault for an extremely violent action staged by the martians.
these nasty little Martians also enjoy torturing and devising elaborate plans to destroy creatures which live on earth. when it appears that there will be no stopping them a ridiculously wild martian eradicating process is discovered.
this is a rather wild comedy which seems to have been inspired by sci-fi gum cards and the movies: 'independence day' and 'war of the worlds'.
*** the important thing to remember is that it's intended to be a wild comedy [ a little less then 'airplane' and 'ace ventura'. maybe on the level of 'rat race'] the special effects and animation [not cartoon animation] are very good. ***

Campy, but Essential for any respectable American cult film collection...Blu-ray please!
2009-11-13 - This title could excel in Blu-ray. With a good remastering, CGI clean-up, Dolby/THX, some good extras & special features, and maybe a documentary about the satire/commentary on society etc, and/or the historical & surreal inspirations for the narrative and visual styling. The box art is also nice minus the actor photos. Not perfect but what good cult film is.

It's all in good fun
2009-09-23 - I can't help but find this entertaining. Mars Attacks! is a silly satire on all those sci-fi films that were made back in the 50's and 60's. There are literally tons of references that it's probably best not to keep track, cause you'll lose count. This may not be Burton's best, but it's certainly his funniest since Beetlejuice. There are some hysterical moments, mostly involving scientists, government officials, and rednecks. The only problem I had with this film was that the cast was too big: some characters were very useless and not very developed, and are killed off too soon. But other than that, I found this to be a very amusing sci-fi parody. I especially like Nicholson, Benning, and Brown for their memorable performances. So if you're into some satire and some sci-fi silliness, then you'll probably enjoy Mars Attacks! from the opening credits to the end credits.

MARTIAN TO A DIFFERENT BEAT
2009-09-08 - What impressed me, in a way, was the overall TOTALLY MEDIOCRE acting done by this bunch of real pros. Then I got to thinking. They were probably doing that on purpose to mirror 50s versions of with actors of similar subject matter. (So bad it is good, theory) The main exception to this "bad acting" is Jack Nicholson's final Presidential rant. It is over the top. But the acting is not a problem with me as the Martians and other special effects are the STARS. They are unbelievably cool and seamless in integration. They are what I waited eagerly to see and what had my total attention. The Martian language of gutteral spurts is so funny, their mannerisms, their unreasonable cruelty. The one Martian disguised as a bombshell blonde--such great work by the designers. It is also a shot of hilarity that while in J-Men Forever, Rock and Roll blasted from the moon is supposed to kill Earthlings, in this movie "The Indian Love Call" and other 30s Era music is the death potion for the Martians, whose brains explode in intolerance. Sylvia Sidney is great in this--she is in practically everything she does. Although it was released in 96 it seems that it came out only yesterday, and many of the cast members are now gone or their health is compromised. Many of them had been in earlier Sci-Fi flicks and it was a sort of Sci-Fi mini reunion. The Martians and the special effects get five stars from this ol' girl.

Silly Fun
2009-07-26 - This movie is a lot of fun. It's clearly not serious, and if you look at it as just a good way to spend a couple of hours watching famous actors get zapped (with two such performances by Jack Nicholson), you'll enjoy it. It's a parody of a lot of different things, including the alien invasion genre, War of the Worlds, and those big budget Hollywood disaster films that Irwin Allen used to make.

The really nice touch is that I could just see our leaders and scientists acting like this if actual aliens showed up. Thank heavens for Grandma!