Mars Attacks! poster

Mars Attacks!

Nice planet. We'll take it!

6.4(6,098)19961h 46m10

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$70M
Box office
$101.4M
Language
English
  • usa president
  • the white house
  • planet mars
  • saving the world
  • cataclysm
  • total destruction
  • laser gun
  • ambassador
  • congress
  • flying saucer
  • dark comedy
  • parody

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Tim Burton

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremierePG-13Hollywood, California13 Dec 1996
    • TheatricalPG-1313 Dec 1996
    • PhysicalPG-13VHS31 Mar 1997
    • PhysicalPG-13DVD1 Jun 2004
    • PhysicalPG-13Blu-ray7 Sept 2010
    • PhysicalPG-134K Ultra HD11 Aug 2026
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1228 Feb 1997
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM24 Dec 1996
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical14A13 Dec 1996
    • TVTeletoon16 May 2008
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical1414 Feb 1997
  • CzechiaCZ

    • TheatricalU13 Mar 1997
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical157 Mar 1997
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP26 Feb 1997
    • TVNovo1922 Apr 2026
    • TVRTL911 Oct 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1226 Feb 1997
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1228 Feb 1997
  • ItalyIT

    • TheatricalT7 Mar 1997
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/127 Mar 1997

Frequently asked questions

Mars Attacks! was released on 13 December 1996.

Audience reviews

4
  • K

    Kamurai

    2/23/2021

    6/10

    Good watch, could watch again, but it's hard to honestly recommend. This is one of those movies that is good because it is bad, whether or not that is done on purpose, for the purposes of parody. Otherwise it's just a good old jump in "The Way Back Machine" to see a litany of cameos or cheap parts by almost anyone who was famous in the mid-1990s. Though I do feel like most of the actors I liked were essentially …

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    7/6/2023

    7/10

    **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 minor failure. I believe that, even today, it is one of the less well-appreciated films of director Tim Burton's career, who made films considerably worse than this one. …

  • W

    Wuchak

    10/21/2025

    7/10

    **_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 w…

  • M

    misubisu

    2/16/2026

    8/10

    **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 Burton would dare to take a movie**, blending 1950s B-movie kitsch with nuclear-grade satire, all delivered with a straight-faced, ghoulish glee that is uniquely his own…

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