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13/12/1996 Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction 1h 46m
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Nice planet. We'll take it!

Overview

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.

  1. Tim Burton

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jack Nicholson

    President Dale / Art Land

  2. Glenn Close

    Marsha Dale

  3. Annette Bening

    Barbara Land

  4. Pierce Brosnan

    Donald Kessler

  5. Danny DeVito

    Rude Gambler

  6. Martin Short

    Jerry Ross

  7. Sarah Jessica Parker

    Nathalie Lake

  8. Michael J. Fox

    Jason Stone

  9. Rod Steiger

    General Decker

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2025-10-21
**_Tim Burton’s spoof of ’50s sci-fi flicks with an outstanding cast_**

Shot in 1996 and released at the end of that year, Burton used the Mars Attacks trading cards from the ’60s as the template for his extraterrestrials. The film plays like the Mad magazine version of “Independence Day,” which beat this to the theaters by 5.5 months the same year. Yet Burton said he didn’t know anything about that movie and it was purely coincidental. Aside from the trading cards, “Mars Attacks!” spoofs ’50s flicks like “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “War of the Worlds.”

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$70,000,000.00

Revenue
$101,371,017.00

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