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"A goofy cultural artifact, Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks!" is a cult sci-fi comedy" - VarietyA 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 (Jack Nicholson) receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan) 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.
In 1996, director Tim Burton and an absolutely deranged collection of movie stars gathered together to answer one simple question: "What if cackling, bug-eyed Martians landed on earth... and everything went spectacularly wrong?"
When Martians arrive on Earth promising peace, humanity responds with diplomacy, optimism, and some of the worst decision-making in cinematic history. What follows is an all-out extraterrestrial bloodbath featuring exploding monuments, incompetent politicians, trigger-happy generals, and celebrity cameos from an absurdly stacked cast—including Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Jack Black, Martin Short, Pam Grier, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Natalie Portman, Tom Jones, and about a dozen other people who really should have known better. A loving middle finger, if you will, to both 1950s sci-fi movies and the modern summer blockbuster, that Burton somehow convinced Warner Bros. to spend nearly $100 million to produce, only to watch it vaporize at the box office almost as spectacularly as the Martians' attack on Capitol Hill. -Enzian Theater
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