Story Line
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.
“Nice planet. We'll take it!”
Top Cast
Jack Nicholson
President Dale / Art Land
Glenn Close
Marsha Dale
Annette Bening
Barbara Land
Pierce Brosnan
Donald Kessler
Danny DeVito
Rude Gambler
Martin Short
Jerry Ross
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1996-12-13
Runtime
1h 46m
Genres
ComedyFantasyScience Fiction
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User Reviews (4)
Kamurai
6/10
•2/23/2021Good watch, could watch again, but it's hard to honestly recommend.
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Filipe Manuel Neto
7/10
•7/6/2023**A film full of black humor, and for that very reason difficult to digest for many people.**
Black humor is doomed to be understood by very few, and this film, which is drenched in black humor from beginning to end, paid the price, becoming a min...
Wuchak
7/10
•10/21/2025**_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 ...
misubisu
8/10
•2/16/2026**Score: 8/10 — A Gleefully Deranged, One-of-a-Kind Satirical Spectacle**
*Mars Attacks!* is the cinematic equivalent of a sugar rush from a radioactive candy bar—bright, chaotic, and utterly unforgettable. It is a film that **goes places only Tim...