MARS ATTACKS (1996) IS CAMPY SCI-FI MADNESS!! MOVIE REACTION!! Tim Burton | Jack Nicholson
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Coy Jandreau & Aaron Alexander react to Tim Burton’s zany and satirical 1996 sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks! — a cult classic that blends alien invasion mayhem with over-the-top performances and Burton’s signature visual flair. Based on the 1962 Topps trading card series, the film follows a global crisis as Earth is visited by Martians whose intentions are anything but peaceful. Despite humanity’s best diplomatic efforts, the aliens launch a chaotic and comedic war on Earth, resulting in outrageous destruction and unforgettable moments.
Featuring an all-star ensemble cast, Mars Attacks! stars Jack Nicholson (The Shining, Batman) in a dual role as President James Dale and Vegas tycoon Art Land, Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction, 101 Dalmatians) as First Lady Marsha Dale, Annette Bening (American Beauty, The Kids Are All Right) as a New Age-obsessed gambler’s wife, and Pierce Brosnan (GoldenEye, The Thomas Crown Affair) as pompous scientist Professor Donald Kessler. Also starring are Danny DeVito (Batman Returns), Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City), Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future), Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building), Natalie Portman (Black Swan, Star Wars), Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen), Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Tom Jones (yes, that Tom Jones), and more.
Famous scenes include the Martians’ deceptive “We come in peace” moment, the destruction of major landmarks like the White House, and the hilariously bizarre finale where Slim Whitman’s yodeling proves to be humanity’s secret weapon. With its unique blend of retro sci-fi homage, biting political satire, and offbeat humor, Mars Attacks! remains one of Tim Burton’s most wildly imaginative and divisive films.
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Christina Applegate was Jack Black's Girlfriend…
Rod Steiger (The General) was bombastic as Hell… Check him out in The Illustrated Man and In the Heat of the Night
A love letter to something you don't know? Now THAT'S an IDEA! You guys should dive into some 50s-70s sci-fi cinema…
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Fun fact: this film is based on a Topps trading cards from the 50’s
Rod Steiger was a hugely significant American actor. He played Charlie Malloy (Marlon Brando’s character’s big brother) in On the Waterfront (1954) one of the most significant films of that decade, and of all time for that matter. In 1967 he costarred with Sidney Poitier in: In the Heat of the Night, not just a brilliant film but a brilliant social critique. You guys should be a little bit embarrassed that you couldn’t even pronounce his name properly.
Had family tragedy this weekend. Are little girl puppy dachshund Winnie of 11 months died suddenly from a twisted gut . All so devastated, kids are in bits and just feel like I failed Winnie. But seems weird but watching you guys is enjoyable and takes my focus and makes me forget for just a moment. Keep up the great work
Byron Williams was played by the late, great Jim Brown, of the greatest running backs in the NFL.
12:43 "They made the international sign of the donut."
had me rolling hard for several minutes. One of my favorite movie lines ever.
32:20 DON'T watch Coneheads unless you're feeling masochistic. Try Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! or Killer Klowns from Outer Space instead. Trust me. Conheads is down there with Morons from Outer Space
38:45 they really blew up the old Landmark Hotel for the movie (thought it was The Sands)
52:20 Christina Applegate was in the scene where they were seeing Jack Black off to war. She was just in the background.
Gravity has nothing to do with how close you are to the sun XD
The old lady Grandma is screen legend Sylvia Sidney
"what a weird time". imagihne watching this near independence day. Its being a cult movie for decades. So memable, so many good moments. Just fun time.
10:09 The lady in the wheelchair on the left (Sylvia Sidney) is the lady who played Juno the case worker in Beetlejuice (1988).
Theremin
Love THIS Movie!! So funny
Killing off the Martians with Slim Whitman's yodeling was perfect.
I uncorked a most curious vintage of celluloid—Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!—a film that crashes upon the palate like a flaming absinthe soufflé hurled through the window of a gentleman’s club during cocktail hour. Released in 1996, and served with the garish flair of a flaming pu-pu platter, this peculiar pastiche of sci-fi nostalgia is both homage and harbinger: a love letter penned in green slime and laser beams.
The Martians themselves—hideous, goggle-eyed goblins with the voices of broken bagpipes—descend upon our world not with philosophical inquiry or quiet diplomacy, but with gleeful disintegration. They arrive clad in what can only be described as fashion-forward aquarium domes and proceed to reduce monuments, generals, and political etiquette to smoking rubble. Watching them invade is rather like watching a swarm of day-glo lobsters tap-dance across a banquet table—hideous, hilarious, and strangely mesmerising.
Now to our ensemble cast, a veritable tasting menu of mid-'90s Hollywood. Jack Nicholson plays not one, but two roles—first, the President of the United States, whose grasp of diplomacy is as firm as a damp vol-au-vent, and second, a Vegas property magnate, who seems to have wandered in from a Don Rickles-themed roulette wheel. Annette Bening, bless her, delivers a performance so marinated in New Age lunacy, it might have been sous-vide in patchouli oil.
Glenn Close as the First Lady presides over the White House with the stern authority of a woman who’s just discovered the caterers brought canned peas. Meanwhile, Tom Jones—yes, that Tom Jones—emerges mid-film like a flaming baked Alaska in the middle of a wartime rationing menu. His presence makes no narrative sense whatsoever, which is precisely why it is delicious.
The film’s aesthetic is a deliberate mishmash—sleek '50s futurism meets lurid comic-book grotesquery. One cannot help but imagine Burton swirling a cocktail of Dr. Strangelove, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and pure Monty Python, then setting the whole concoction ablaze and serving it with a plastic olive and a wink.
Yet, for all its bombast and bewilderment, Mars Attacks! is not without substance—albeit of the custard variety. Beneath the high-camp absurdity lies a biting satire of politics, media, and the ludicrous fragility of civilisation. It is, in essence, a B-movie foie gras: grotesque in concept, but oddly refined in execution.
Sarah Jessica barker was a real missed opportunity
I watched the demo of the Galaxy hotel live.
The music bit that kills the Martians is a call back to the Killer Tomatoes movies.
The video game is fun
CONEHEADS WAS GREAT!
Literally everybody in that movie is famous as fuck. Especially at that time. It's such a campy movie, looks like the comics it was based on too. I love it, but not many people I know do. I think it was a little too retro and campy for them.
So there's a Mars Attacks! video game that's a theme park simulator. It's kinda genius when you think about it. You're a martian and you make a human zoo/theme park for the other martians
Excellent flick. This movie taught me the international sign of the donut.