Mars Attacks! - Nostalgia Critic
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It's known as one of Tim Burton's biggest blunders, but it's also getting a bit of a following. Is it worth it? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at Mars Attacks!
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Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American comic science fiction horror film directed by Tim Burton, who also co-produced it with Larry J. Franco. The screenplay, which was based on the trading card series of the same name, was written by Jonathan Gems. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Jack Nicholson (in a dual role), Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Lisa Marie Smith, and Sylvia Sidney.
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Oh, come on. I liked some things in Mars Attacks!
Huh, interesting review.
The reason Jack Nicholson has two roles is because Burton had orders from execs not to kill off his character. So Burton gives two roles to Jack and kills off both
I think that, and other trivia, goes to show that Mars Attacks is a movie that's best enjoyed with some context about the stuff behind the scenes. I feel like Doug's criticisms largely came from expecting a different movie. Obviously requiring a bit of insider info prior to watching a movie doesn't give it a pass, in fact I totally understand that it makes people dislike it, but I think it's given a little too little credit nonetheless.
Ahh I see.
Not character, but characters.
+Autistic Gamer
Talk about a hypocrite.
@@WillcraftAnimations that is why is a failure in his time and a classic today
Fun Fact: Michael Keaton was going to play Arte but couldn’t due to other filming, then Burton gave Nicholson 2 roles and killed him in both.
"Cows on fire" is technically how McDonald's makes its food
I’m sorry to say but that’s not beef
Also why do you think they call it “Big Mac special sauce”
It is (mostly) beef. However, the amount of filler, antibiotics, hormones, and could be cloned beef legally is what makes it questionable.
I was thinking it would be more fitting for Burger King, flame broiled and all.
The new McDonald's fresh food.
Someone should Kickstart Mars Attacks 2 - We're Back-ack-ack!
Ah sh*t,they back😑😑😑
Oh shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would love to see that!
@Joe L'Horri aw here goes?
Get Billy Joel to do the soundtrack.
♪ "Ohhh the Martians are here and they're ready to attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack" ♪
Fun fact: The Martians were voiced by Frank Welker, the original voice actor of Scooby Doo
Multiple versions Megatron and Soundwave, and multiple animal roles like the squirrels in Powerpuff girls too. He's in a lot of stuff and as far as I know while he's too old to do gravelly voices like Soundwave anymore, he still does numerous big and bit roles in childrens' media. Guy is a legend.
@@TheQuashingoftheTub yes he is
@@provokedrobin608 Don Messick is the original voice of Scooby Doo, Frank Welker's the original voice of Fred and has played Scooby Doo since Messick's retirement in 97, though.
He still plays Scooby-Doo
@@Aldrius Scott Innes voiced Scooby after Messick retired, Welker didn't take over until 2003
I thought the entire humor of the movie was the aliens being total assholes.
And some actors playing against type.
Yep. I love this movie. Seems like NC completely missed the point.
Doves have a different meaning on Mars because they’re connected to the planet Venus which traces a pentagram in the sky on Earth but not on Mars because they have a 3:1 rather than a Fibonacci orbital resonance.
@@VileEPeyote Well he wouldn't be alone because like %90 of the comments are basically confusion at how the movie should be interpreted(and that includes me)
I watched it at like 14, 15(2008-09ish) and I vividly remember even then thinking "oh it's just a 90's take on those 70's-ish scifi movies, with actually decent and brutal graphic effects"
It's a bizarre fucking movie though, that's for sure.
@@VileEPeyote he didn't miss the point. It's just too odd to criticize.
>complaining about gags going on for too long
Really, Doug? Really?
Раб Христа Бога remember that one with Kermit the From the Labyrinth review, that was toooooooooo long
Let's just say he's a bit of an expert on the subject
It was like hypocritical nirvana when he uttered those words.
Just like in the older reviews when he used to criticize characters for being whiny or having an annoying voice. It's like "Doug, you make some good points, but don't YOU be going there, alright?"
Absolutely.
Jack Nicholson as the President...
My life is complete
Hey if Schwarzenegger can be California Governor... who knows?
ACK ACK ACK AKACK!!!
Translation: What the Hell did I just watch!
You guys are one of the few good reaction channels I have seen you guys actually talk about what your watching and always have some outside information about what your watching back when you watched epic rap battles of history I found it interesting that you knew a lot of the inside jokes and would explain and talk about them later so I keep watching your videos because they aren’t like every other reaction channel so keep doing what you guys do it’s great and I can’t get enough
A good a movie
@@bonedaddy9563 thank you thank you someone with brains
*hell.
Something not pointed out in the review: the flaming cows and some other surreal scenes are based on the ooold Mars Attacks trading cards this movie is based on.
@Dillon Sudduth Trading cards, comics, toys, all came before the movie.
This movie is based on trading cards.
ON TRADING CARDS
How in the world?
@Dillon Sudduth Just don't look up how much the Funko Pop Martians are that came out a few years back... jheeze!
Garbage...Pail...Kids...
Yeah, that’s a glaring omission to this review and it actually puts the whole movie into perspective.
I think Doug is confusing Mars Attacks, a modern-day B-movie with an outright comedy
You’re totally right. Doug thinks every line is supposed to be hilarious.
@@suzieBirdoSum009 Yeah, the whole thing is it's amusing BECAUSE it isn't openly funny. I absolutely loved this movie when I was younger, and sure, it's terrible, but it's amazing in how terrible it is.
Thank you! Yes! He doesn't get it. I freaking love this movie. I don't get why he doesn't understand it's trying to be a 50s sci-fi b- movie, Tim Burton style.
@5th Dimension is a parody movie that knows that had to be somewhat serious to not to be just a loney toon cartoon...
like, began as a serious thing.. then just became monty phyton horror movie......
For me it got better this way
Who said Mars Attack was meant to be funny.... its an awesome film!
'Mars Attacks!' is the epitome of movies made in the '90s. I really couldn't see it getting the green light if the idea for the movie were pitched in any other decade. People loved quirky movies during that time period for some reason. Simpler times I suppose. I personally love the movie, but a lot of it has to due with the nostalgia I get when I saw it so many times as a kid. Great times, man...
I was 26 when it came out,I thought it was a comedic masterpiece. Laugh my ass off Everytime I see it on tv
The 90s was obsessed with aliens 👽
This movie was so obscure, I watched the end scene once as a kid, it stuck in my brain cause i was so fkin confused and it took me until last year to actually learn of this movie. Cause it came out when I was one
@Bobtwi Chew man this shit came out when I was 1. I never learned the name of the movie nor saw it again until I was 26 (now) 🤣
I could see a more dark version true to the the cards being made by Netflix or something these days.
This movie is definitely one of the best comedic films ever made and the cast is like everywhere.
Mars Attacks is a movie based on an overly violent children's trading card game from the 50s. If you go into it expecting it to just be a comedy movie, you're watching it for the wrong reasons. It's like watching Watership Down and getting mad that it wasn't a feel-good movie about cuddly bunny-rabbits. It's not technically a comedy; its JUST a goofy 50s B-Movie made in the 90s.
Yes!!
That's what Burton said in an interview when the movie came out. Also, according to Burton, Nicholson wanted to play EVERY role so they let him play two.
The Topps Trading cards were released in 1962 to be exact.
This.
finally someone who knows
I first watched this when I was 7 or 8 (what were my parents thinking?). As a small kid, I honestly didn't realise it was meant to be a comedy. I thought it was meant to be a horror movie. Everybody getting killed genuinely terrified me.
Eoin O'Connor Same
same
Same thing, this movie traumatized me for at least one year
Hell, I'm 18 seeing this shit for the first time and I'm even a bit disturbed. I can easily see myself being 10 years younger and getting nightmares over the fucked imagery in this movie.
There is something strangely... mean in the way this movie treats its characters. Like you are suposed to hate these people and want them to suffer(as in those horror movies where every one is a dick), but the movie doesn't really give us reason to either like or dislike them. They are mostly just... going on with their lives. I don't know, it's kind of messed up.
*_Mass genocide amongst the entire human race_*
"Meh."
*_Dog dies_*
*"Y'all are going down."*
If you thought the violence in this movie was bad you should see the trading cards they literally killed dogs and boxes of kittens in pulp fiction drawing style
That hotel being demolished was actually a real building, they scheduled filming around it to use the demolishing.
Which I think is kinda neat and certainly unique.
Personally, I find quite funny that no one is able to interact with the aliens because they immediately shoot everybody. Martians unnecessary cruelty is great in this movie.
I just watched it and I was thinking the same thing.
I love Mars Attacks. It's just a silly and stupid movie, and it knows it. It's not a parody of another movie, it's a parody of itself. Love it.
Yup, the irony of the review is that he only says "is not funny is not funny", I mean it feels like me watching his latest reviews :V
Yeah, I'm also not on the same page as NC on this one. I really like Mars Attacks. I always took it as a parody which is played straight. So of course you don't have an overabundance of jokes. Everyone in this movie is trying to act as if this was real afterall. Still it manages to poke fun at the scifi genre, politics and society as a whole. I for one got most of the tropes Burton was referencing. The characters obviously don't have arcs and only one decisive trait, because they are charicatures of well known archetypes.
The curious thing is that if this is one of the last real parodies ever made before the crap like Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans started to flow, and NC himself has a video criticizing that kind of parody and yet here we have him pointing out the exact opposite of that...
silly but not stupid :) i also love that movie .
In a way Mars Attacks suffered the same fate as Starship Troopers. They were both parodies released around the same time which failed at the boxoffice and critically and I think the audience failed to respond to them for most of the same reasons. However, unlike Starship Troopers it wasn't ever redeemed afterwards and didn't develop a strong cult following.
I always found this movie funny just because of how random it was...
Yeah same
@SAMUEL HENLEY I'm a millennial. Kid from the '80s.
Exactly. I don’t think it was meant to be taken seriously AT ALL.
Same, Commander X the Zotaxian
iT's So RaNdOMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
I loved this movie.
The aliens were cartoony and over the top, and had a bit of an attack of the killer tomatoes vibe.
Just some good satire.
And that reaction if jack Black's family changing the station, trying not to accept what just happened is great!
Wait Wait Wait, If you're gonna have the Martians get killed by music, Why not have it be that Tom Jones's music is just so good that it kills them.
Yeah Tom Jones still makes music. Isn´t that a great adverstisement when your music litteraly let head explode? :D I can see why Jones wasn´t into that.
@@vincentvega9983 they could have easily worked out an explanation where they enjoy shitty music and can't stand the awesome one.
W H A T S N E W P U S S Y C A T
actually, that would have been a good twist
@@makingawaymakingaway759 27 TIMES!
Season 11...damn, Channel Awesome...keep going!
At this point season 1 is already nostalgic.
Why 11? Because he likes to go one step beyond.
Ditto
Hey as a child this movie scared the hell out of me seeing her head on a dog is a nightmare ! Yet i still love it !!! Even now its like a different idea and different way !! I love it 💗
Same
Thank god I'm not the only one who thought that was creepy.
Same here
I didn’t even know what a prostitute was lol
Me too
"When a character gets killed off it doesn't even mean anything" YES! That's the point! you have the point right in your hand!
Huh?
@@dylansharp8471 I'm just as confused as you are . Is this the persons attempt to seem deep or something?.
@@vangler6492 i think they're talking about how it's so obvious that they killed off most of the stars to fuck with people
It's like you heard this one quote but didn't listen to anything else he said in the video. He pretty thoroughly explained why that didn't quite work in this movie.
@@Danieru-Sanyeah but how is that supposed to be funny?
This movie gave me nightmares as a child. The aliens just laughing as they turned people into colorful skeletons. And the dog head swap. As a child that was horrifying.
Should state I was 3 years old when this came out. So maybe 5 when they showed this on the tv.
Same, man, same.
Yeah, same here. I watched it first when I was 4 or 5 and had nightmares for years. And now I freaking love this movie.
child me also thought this was a horror movie
i now laugh at this movie
Spoopy.
ur not alone.. i was like 10 or so when i saw this movie with friends in the theater... (& ya, i totally had nightmares too!)
The moment when you hit F5 and it says 'uploaded 23 seconds ago' ... perfect way to end the evening!
Silberklau, your lucky your comment got liked by Channel awesome
I shall take good care of it!
Silberklaue So is space balls!😂😂😂
The cat my family had back then sounded *exactly* like the aliens from Mars attacks. Never heard another cat make noises like this.
Image my whole family in front of the TV, watching this movie for the first time and our cat casually starting to communicate with the martians ...
And I honestly love this movie, it's hilarious, messy, sarcastic, dark, weird, surprising, crazy and smart in all the right ways.
This movie scared me when I was a kid. I distinctly remember the head swap scene.
It baffled me when I saw it lol
I sawnit around 15 years old, around 2009, and it made no sense. My sister gave it to me(probably thinking along the lines of "well he liked UHF and other Parody movies") and I could never figure out how to translate it.
I honestly thought it was just the tail end of that bizarre 70's style revisionist retro-50's atom-pop sci-fi atmosphere(does that even make sense or describe it?) that it parodies and it wasn't intended to be an actual comedy.
This movie just confused the shit out of me, and nothing about it was ever great enough for me to seek out and see of there was a story behind it.
Yeah, that was simultaneously pretty funny and really weird! The severed head kiss scene was so weird, LOL
Biggest problem here is that Critic makes the common mistake of assuming this film is a comedy. It is, like the card series it's based on, a throwback alien invasion movie with a few darkly humorous moments.
It doesn't matter because IT'S DULL AND POINTLESS. All the card games in the world do not change that.
Obviously it's a matter of taste, but I find the film visually enthralling and, despite not being a straight comedy hilarious at points. Oh, and it's not based on a card game, but a collectible 1962 trading card series.
Starving Martian like destroying the dog burning cattle (as seen in video) and human torch (also seen in video) but it's not bad considering that the garbage pail kids movie was worse
I'll admit the movie could have been better (where's the giant bugs?) but it also could have been much, much worse. I'm satisfied with what we got.
NorseViking84 does it taste like cardboard or was that gpk
Nostalgia Critic the whole movie was supposed to be that cheesy. It was making fun of those types of movies from the 50s. Yeah, it looks cheap and it's silly but it's incredibly entertaining regardless. I get that you have to make fun of how dumb it is, but it was intentional.
Also, a lot of the scenes you mentioned were not supposed to be hilarious and the characters were meant to be unlikable douchebags.
Thank you at least someone gets it
Bravo sir!! Your bang on!! Gawd dammit
Well said.
I loved that movie. Heh, not the first time I disagree with the Critic. ;)
VultureClone I hate to be the devils advocate but he kind of indicates with the trailers that it was entirely mis advertised. You may ‘get it’ but if most people didn’t, either the movie wasn’t clear enough it was marketed incorrectly.
10:21 Actually Nostalgia-Critic, the Martians were originally going to have subtitles, but Tim Burton wouldn't allow it.
Why not?
@@liampatrick3110 I personally think the alien addressing Congress and showing them some stupid silver ribbon awkwardly would have been way worse with subtitles. As-is he says some stuff about his fancy ribbon, gets no reaction, then kills everyone. No subtitles you put in there would make it funnier than us not knowing what he was trying to say or if he was upset he didn't get applause or something.
@@liampatrick3110 It gives the spectators the benefit of imagining the dialogue of the aliens by themselves. A kid will imagine it one way, an adult another, etc.
This movie TERRIFIED me as a kid, literally couldn't sleep alone for a month it was so damn scary!! Honestly still scares me now!!
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They are not gonna listen to your shitty ass. That 'thank you' was half-assed and you know it.
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That's not Stardust's doing, that's Doug's. He decided to do the stardust plug like this.
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I thought this movie to be a parody of the campy 50s alien invasion movies and comic books. The obvious, horrible special effects, the xmas colored ray guns, the fact that they killed off most of the main cast(years before R.R. Martin came onto the scene).
It's a cult classic from my generation
b scar they made a movie about crappy 50’s alien movies and made it suck on purpose, this doesn’t make the movie funny.
I, and many others, disagree.
b scar this is a movie that parodies those movies which means it is objectively a fucking awful movie
I agree with b scar.
Mars attacks is a fire ass movie
18:00 that is ironic. Jack Nicholson used a fake hand to try to kill someone when he played the Joker. But in this he was killed by a fake hand.
That is quite funny.
I love Mars attacks. One precious childhood memory 🤗
"Destroy All Humans" The Video Game was "Mars Attacks!" done right.
I used to use the disintegrator ray and yell ACK ACK ACK.
Well, the first two DAH! games (DAH!2 is a favorite of mine still a decade later.)
RamsTheNameCom I love just thought that!
The first one is my favorite, the sequels were okay but had a lot of bugs and felt unfinished in many ways though I still enjoyed them.
My theory is that the translator doesn't work properly. The scientists who built it are going on a LOT of assumptions as to how the Martian language works. Linguists spend years studying and translating languages and these guys just come in an say, "Hey, we made a translation machine and it only took two or three days." Take the scene when the Martians first land, how do we know they're really saying, "We come in peace"? They could be saying, "We claim this planet for the glory of Mars," or "Surrender now or die!" When the hippy releases the dove, notice how the ambassador scowls. This could be out of annoyance as to how stupid humans are and thinking, "OK, maybe killing a species as stupid as yours might do the universe some good!" Well, that's what I think anyway.
Eh. The Martians are supposed to be just dicks so lying through their teeth is probably part of the intention. The implied reason for why some of the rays leave green skeletons and some leave red is that they are keeping score potentially.
That scene with Jack Nicholson as the casino tycoon they'd always make me laugh, because usually acts so serious in his movies, and seeing him play a sleazy pimp.. it's just hilarious
This was a movie that had to grow on me. I hated it at first, but it grew on me and I appreciated how purposely ridiculous it was.
I think that guy's job in the casino was to be an actor. LIke in Friends when Joey is in Las Vegas. They hire people to be in costumes and to pose for the guests. Kind of like theme parks have characters walking around.
I'm surprised the Critic didn't mention that Godzilla was in the movie too, what with all the other actors that were in this movie.
Goji73 haven’t heard from you in a while
Where?
Vellichor Mellifluous I mean I have not seen a vid or a comment for a long time
they're talking to the comment author...
Vellichor Mellifluous He is mixed in with the scenes of destruction, and it turns out the aliens are actually watching Godzilla Vs. Biollante from their ship, and laughing about it. Its one of my favorite scenes.
I like Mars Attacks! Probably my favorite line is when the martians start killing Congress, everyone freaks out, and Natalie Portman just deadpans "I guess it wasn't the dove." :)
Man, you missed every single point Tim Burton spent time and care putting into the film.
There's a massive difference between being critical of a movie and just criticising.
That's exactly how I felt about his review of The Mummy (the 1999 version). It's weird; it seems like there's quite a few that have actual, good constructive criticism, and then there's just plain criticizing for the point of criticizing.
Am I the only one who feels that way? Because I actually like his videos. But this - and **especially** the The Mummy review - just felt like hating on a movie just because.
Edit: Because there **IS** a difference between "constructive criticism" and just "omg, that was awful; did you see how awful that was?"-type criticism. The latter is just finding things to pick at and criticize; the former is where you actually say "wow, that was awful" and then end it with "here's why and how they could have made it better". That's how many of his episodes are; he'd say it's awful/great and then explain why. Not so much here. It's just weird to me.
To criticise is literally the definition of being critical. You can like it while still acknowledging that it was sloppily made...
@@dig4587 except it wasn't sloppy made in the slightest.
Dude i like it to but come on
@@dig4587 Man, if you can't tell the difference between an affectionate parody and a badly made film, I don't know what to say...
I actually really like Mars Attacks,not as a comedy,but just as a goofy funflick
The biggest criticism seems to be that it's not funny, but I don't think it was meant to be funny in the same way we traditionally think about comedy. Rather, we should see this movie like a dark comedy whose humor comes not from laughter, but from the absurdity and nihilism of the whole thing.
This guy gets it.
but also fails at that, specially in the tone... IMHO ... I love absurdity and dark comedies... but there must be a method to the mayhem, this movie reminds me of the movie 1941 ... some absurd moments that are funny but the rest is just a bland uninteresting mess
Mason B then it was advertised wrong and weirdly cast because no ones skills where used to further that point
Exactly. This movie was sort of like a love letter to 50s and 60s creature feature type B movies. It was meant to be cheesy and over the top, not meant to be a comedy.
So, in that sense, it's a lot like Terry Gilliam's Brazil or Zero Theorem. I don't see that as a criticism either. If a movie sets out to be a laugh-out-loud film, but fails to meet the mark (case in point, Boeing Boeing, ergh, that was such a swing-and-a-miss), then I'd criticize it for being unfunny. But when a film sets out to be a kind of a cynically humorous social satire, then it's kinda unfair to fault it for not being a belly-flopper.
Not going to lie this was the movie that scared me as a kid, I had no idea what was going on I thought people leaving their skeletons horrifying especially since they seemed so heartless to me
This was honestly the first Tim Burton movie I have ever watched.
And I loved it.
All of my favorite Tim Burton movies were the ones I didn't know were his when I first saw them, including this one.
Was this supposed to be a comedy?I thought it was a supposed to be weird people in a weird, but serious, situation
It's a satire. But since NC thought it was a comedy, he obsesses over every moment that isn't making him laugh. He's really dumb in this video.
He pointed out that he knew it was a satire, but it doesn't do the satire bit right. It doesn't commit to the satire because either it was too serious or too goofy. So in the end it fails at both.
As a homage to 50's movies, it's not good because it looks too nice. Too clean. It just doesn't work. It's like if The Room had a big budget. It just wouldn't work because the movie itself isn't supposed to be serious, so why spend so much money on it?
I never thought it was supposed to be a comedy. I thought it was Tim Burton's shot at taking an Ed Wood style script and doing it with a big budget and real cinematography. I liked it.
Mekova- The Room did have a big budget.
It's labeled as a comedy on IMDb, so I'm gonna assume it was meant to be a comedy but failed horribly
Michael J Fox's role in this movie gets kind of sad when you realise that this is the last movie that he did before he had to retire due to his Parkinson's disease
loved him as a guest star in Scrubs
He did Stuart Little after this. A voice role but still another movie.
Honestly I liked the scenes where Jim Brown and Pam Grier’s kids took action and fought against the martians and meanwhile Jim was giving those martians them hands. Showed that the boys were brave just like their parents.
This was on a double feature from the local video store with independence day when I was a kid so I watched both back to back. In retrospect years later I wish this would have been the one to get a sequel...
I loved this movie, but I totally accept that it's a weird-ass movie that doesn't really register as amazing or terrible.
I'm not a huge fan of Tim Burton's work, but there are some I love. This is one of them, even if I can't exactly put my finger on why.
Harper Steele probably because it looks silly
Harper Steele it's surreal
I really don't think you get what Burton was going for. He made a Z list 1950's horror film with A list actors. It's a homage and reference to Ed Wood, it's the natural progression from that film. You criticised that the character's deaths don't mean anything. However, you didn't see the funny side and shock (at the time) to audiences that Michael J Fox, Jack Nicholson (twice) and Glenn Close die in a film. They never die in films. The film was meant to shock. The humour was in the absurdity and the shock value.
Doug fixates on trivial shit and never gets the big picture, the subversion, and the dashing of expectations in the film that you astutely mention here. He has zero critical acumen, and even though I used to find his videos funny, the more of them I see the more I find him insufferable and I despise him.
you do know that the Nostalgia Critic is a character, right
kevin r. So you disagree, therefore you are the only correct one...
Ah, subverting expectations as an excuse for crap writing, it still has to feel natural, even in nonsense there needs to be a lick of organization to the chaos, even if its chaotic organization.
Im going to use the argument i used with that same comment on the last jedi.
You know what would also be subverting expectations? Kylo Ren pulling out a purple dildo and beating luke skywalker with it till he jizzes out that green milk shit.
Thats subverting expectations, does that make it a cohesive and well thought oit idea? No its stupid.
You cant have subversion of expectations just for the sake of subverting expectations
EquestrianAngel:Curt bit of a shit example, but I get your point.
I loved this film!! It mocked all my favourite alien films and took all our presumptions and fears to their extreme. Was hilarious.
This movie was awesome, you totally missed the mark with this review.
The film was probably not meant to make sense. I think that was the point.
@Seth Belfort "How" what?
I think he means how did this review missed the mark. I personally enjoyed the review.
You sound like every other commenter basing their worth in a single critic's review. I'm so sorry for you
@@hewhoeatsall Everyone is saying he "Missed The Mark", when he really pulls some solid points. It is dumb, it is pointless. He just said his opinion.
This was THE movie of my childhood. I've shamelessly watched it over 30 times at this point.
It is genius!
@@MarsAttacksMemoirs108 I'm glad that that film is always in our hearts and your heart like for eternity!
I hated it it gave me so many nightmares
I loved it. I even had the trading cards
i watched it probably about 30 times, but only because my mom was obsessed with it and forced me to watch it.
I'm surprised that this isn't a widely beloved movie, it's stupid and ridiculous but endlessly entertaining in my book.
JQXJQ its boring
AWFUL. JUST AWFUL.
The way jack black instantly surrendered I always found hilarious
So who else is now binge watching the entirety of Season 11 just to see if they can catch Doug saying fuck?
I'd always thought Mars Attacks was a Guilty Pleasure
And the black dude living was to subvert the trope of the black guy always dies first, to him being the only one that survived.
Mars Attacks! was a comedy masterpiece. A perfect satire of how Independence Day was dumb. So underrated. For example the guy who is into donuts because that his job is at the donut shop makes complete sense. The really weird humor and killing off all the big names in the cast is just brilliant, this movie is meant to feel alienish, from another planet. I swear this movie is uniquely genius. like @Fardin Mahi said a year prior to me, seems Doug missed the point. Truth is, Tim Burton knows what he's doing, some people just don't get it, he does Tim Burton.
Ikr. Tim Burton is the epitome of weird, and he's surprised the movie is weird? It wasn't meant to be a comedy, or some brilliant take on satirical representation of industry tropes, and I hate that he doesn't get this.
I just don't understand the movie satire
Not really. It was always considered by most people as ok at best. It’s not funny enough to be a comedy, it’s not serious enough to be a drama, and it’s actual characters both minor and major are just stereotypes. Plus there’s not a single memorable quote. The only memorable parts of this movie is the visuals.
"I DON'T GET IT!!!"
- Doug Walker
Mars Attacks is my favorite Tim Burton movie, hands down. Like I love Burton (when he's good), and this is just the movie I love the most by him. The Batman movies are brought down by being a little too far away from the source material, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands just try too hard to be all goth and spooky and Nightmare before Christmas isn't his movie. So yeah Mars Attacks all the way.
Dude, the source material of Batman is about as stable as a game of jenga. Burton did an awesome job by mixing OG killer Batman with a 70's 80's Joker. Then Returns is among the best Bat elseworlds...
I like the villains from Batman Returns but apparently the Penguin was antisemitic
Well, if you can't laugh at someone being melted to a skeleton with his parents watching trying to change the channel only to find every one is covering the same thing then... I don't know. I don't think it's "funny" funny. It´s more Tim Burton funny. And I actually like Mars Attacks. It's based (loosely) of the cards and it was the first Burton movie I saw which didn't happen in a boring, cold, goth world. I also heard Jason's character was supposed to be played by Johnny Depp. Maybe it's not for you but like some asshole once said: Everything's not for everybody
"They blew up congress. Ha ha ha" will always be my favorite quote
i always wished there was a video game adaptation of this movie on the N64 or even a modern console.
There pretty much was. It was called 'all humans must die' and it felt so similar that it cant be a coincidence
EmptyAltruism I think you mean destroy all humans.
Yeah, thats it. Thanks! I never even played it, but a friend had it
Destroy All Humans is this movie done right!
Destroy All Humans is pretty much just that, but done better. It's still entertaining and funny as well.
This is the sci-fi version of Jackie Brown: cast of overly accomplished actors, incredibly fun storytelling and brutal violence played for some of the darkest comedy ever put to celluloid. Both are brilliant, but were sold by marketing as what they weren't.
"This is one of those films that makes you think, 'what *is* he thinking?' sometimes."
I think about that question ALL the time.
I have loved this film since I was a child. Tim burton, aliens, crazy deads....
And yes TOM JONES.
Same- I was 6 when this came out so it kind of scared me, but still, it introduced to me to the macabre, heck I was so glad to actually SEE satire and parody to crappy movies such as Independence Day. with all the fake patriotism and so, it was refreshing to watch this movie. This movie is based on a pack of 60's trading cards, and you could say it has this 60's Mort Drucker Mad Magazine feel were it shows you the same scenes and dialogues as the movie it is parodying but with a twist and laughs. But just like, let's say the Grinch (this movie is way much better than that movie though) there's this amount of filler which makes it kind of... mmm... eh... this should've been like Batman Returns, but it's as if they gave us the 1989 Batman version- much more retained. Not saying it's bad, it could've been much more--- heck it even stinks executive producer with that happy ending. With all those celebrities, Tim Burton was way too conditioned.
Its actually interesting for one scene,and thats when they destory the Galaxy Hotel. This is because the building is actually the Landmark Hotel,and it was demolished at this time,so the footage was used in the movie
Loved watching it with my grandfather
Crazy enough my dads elementary school friend is the head secret service guy lol
Rotty therottski I'm so sorry for his loss lol
I always thought this movie was a satirical piece on the old 1950s alien movies?
Axel-Griff it is... i don’t know how people can take it seriously if it’s clear that it was a satirical movie...
Because being satire, doesn't make it funny. Blazing Saddles is satire, and it's funny. Mars Attacks is not.
Satire doesn't have to be funny, it has to be clever or intelligent. This movie wasn't funny, clever, or intelligent. Just mediocre.
It just falls flat.
Who said it's supposed to be funny? Satire isn't automatically comedy
I enjoyed this movie, it gave off a high quality B-movie satirical feel. I'm sure if Tim Burton released this today, it would be a pretty huge hit.
Usualy agree with you but this one is amazing one of the kind movie that is well liked for a good REASON
Does nobody understand the concept of a black comedy? Not gonna lie, this movie freaked me out as a kid but as i got older i learned to appreciate it more
Isn't the point that the translation was wrong? The Martians didn't actually come in peace, and they were probably not saying "Don't run! We are your friends!" in earnest while they're slaughtering people like animals (they had figured out what the translator was, and were trolling the hell out of the people they were killing - them trolling humanity is kind of a big thing). The person who created the translator was the man who was completely certain that the Martians would have to be peaceful since they have attained a higher form of society. When the "mows like a harvest" thing comes up, the humans think it's an error - but that may well be the only thing the machine actually got right.
Heavy Critic I thought they said, "We come in peace" later on because they know how fuckin stupid we are that we trusted them multiple times. The prez even dies horribly shaking hands with their leader because it pretended to be moved by his speech (as if they could even understand it) lol
That's kind of what I was going for, though. That the Martians have realized how bad the translation from the device is, and they say whatever translates into "Don't run! We are your friends!". Either way, there's some galactic level trolling happening in that movie. :)
Maybe they actually came to Earth only to kill the bad guys? Maybe they came to liberate us from the “lizard people”?
I don't know how Jack Nicholson became president after ordering a code red. I feel that I'm entitled to answers, but I guess I just won't be able handle the truth.
Mars attacks was a great film with great actors. Remember watching it as a kid an its still just as good
I don’t think he gets it. It’s an homage to 50s Sci-fi space movies while also being based on the trading cards. Kind of how Sleepy Hollow was an homage to Hammer films.
The aliens remind me of the zetans from fallout 3. They speak kind of alike and run a bunch of weird experiments.
Considering the Mars Attacks Trading Cards are from the 60's I think we can guess who inspired who.
But yes, I was also thinking about the Critic's Sleepy Hollow/Hammer Film comparison.
Pelcogo ....NEVER MENTION CANON VIOLATIONS IF YOU VALUE YOUR CAPS!
It is a homage, but it's not a *good* homage. That was his point.
David Phillips I don't think you understand his criticisms.
See, he would probably like it had it been MORE of that, had it embraced the outright insanity of the concept and actors that were provided to them, instead of it being a giant waste.
To quote John Candy in Spaceballs, "What the hell was that?" Mars Attacks is one strange movie!
Giovanni Orellana I miss John Candy
Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City "Sailor wanna hump-hump" bar
still a lot better than The Last Jedi
Remember Garbage Pail Kids? It's one of those. It's a movie based on a Topps trading card set that had some disturbing (for the time) artwork. Except Mars Attacks! translates somewhat better to a movie because there actually was a narrative of sorts in its trading card set instead of just a bunch of grossly disfigured children.
Strange is right. Watching them all play it so straight with such a comedic theme is in it's own way mesmerizing and confusing all at the same time. specially when your waiting for most of these large and slightly strange personalities live up to that extreme and it just never does.
Tim Burton made an Ed Wood movie with a budget.
Yeah. That is what he was going for.
*It was a satire of B movies that was also a B movie8
Well according to the comments, that's what this movie is.......
They should have used a Tom Jones song for the alien head explosion. Then it would have felt like Tom Jones was...you know...worth them advertising him being in the movie.
TimmyTheNerd pretty sure that's what was planned,and Tom Jones didn't want his music associated with being bad enough to explode heads
Huh, I remembered that it WAS Tom Jones music that killed the martians... Then again, it has been pretty long time since I watched this movie.
That’s brilliant.
When I was a kid I actually thought that's what was happening.
Dang, you're right, that really would have been better.
Mars Attacks is a hybrid movie, 50% horror/action and 50% satirical parody. Yeah, it’s got some not great moments, but the rest is fine.
22:09 one of the best line of the movie
... I loved this movie ...
I feel like Nostalgia Critic didn't get the joke of this movie. That it's an overly melodramaticised (yes, I know, probably not a word) b-movie done up with a-movie treatment. It's a thing of beauty. It's no Beetlejuice of course.
The guy talking is super annoying
This review is hard to watch because he is so obviously getting upset at one thing in one part of a movie and then the opposite thing later on in the movie. First he's sick of everyone getting shot instantly, then later he's sick of people dying in new ways because it's COMMENTARY. First he's sick of people not saying any jokes in the movie and later he's sick of them saying stupid ones. And he manages to stay smug about it the whole time.
In case someone doesn't know, Mars Attacks was a series of trading cards from the 60's that "kinda" had a story arc, but was mostly popular beacause of the gory drawings. Some scenes in the movie (like the cows on fire or Jack Black fighting back) are based on some cards. Now this trainwreck of a movie makes more sense.
Fernando Tapia Rodriguez i wonder if its possible to buy them now, they sound really cool
Yony Montana I think they made new series of cards. The originals are hard to get. By the way, there are also comics which were released after the movie, but i never read them, so i have no idea if they're any good.
Yeah, I thought that NC was going to explain that or bring it up, but he didn't.
If Tim Burton had the slightest idea what the hell he was doing, this would have been a bizarrely horrifying war movie on LSD, based exactly on the card series, instead of a brainless comedy. The best part of the movie is the opening scene of the cows running past engulfed in flames, then the Martians advancing on Earth. Everything after that is an utter waste of time.
Clayton George Well put, Clayton.
Okay that "Don't run, we are your friends." bit was pretty funny. It's just a shame that this movie has such stunning visuals and martian designs and such a large cast of talented people, but doesn't use any of it very well or to its full potential.
This is one of the greatest movies of all time. Shut up!
Mars Attacks was originally based on cards from 1962; the same time of the cuban missile crisis. Then in the 1980s it eventually got a comic book series. Just a little bit of trivia for those interested.
"You sure this wasn't a Troll movie?". Double entendre.
Also, 18:28 is sponsorred by Stardust.
i was going to write this exact comment !
That's crazy.
Glad he got a sponsor but man I hate stardust.
OK I'm glad too ... but does he have to talk about them before, meanwhile AND after ?
I mean, it’s a sponsor, he has to
It's thanks to TH-cam's 'family-friendly' bullshit.
Be ready to skip in all videos... skip hard...
Awelbeckk you forgot and also in the comment section and description.
I love this film. So weird and b rated.
I collected many of the comics,bfigures, etc.
I know many people dont like it, as its not for everyone..
But its great for me. Its a great homage to bad scifi films of the past
I always felt this was a satire of 1950’s Martian invasion movies. The characters were always a little off, the aliens taken a bit too seriously, and the whole film absurd. This film captures that completely.
Who else skipped the stupid reactions? Everyone, yes what I thought.
I watched the reactions but skipped over the part where Doug explains what stardust is
The reactions are cool, I just wish they weren't part of what is clearly an ad!
Devilyaki I did
I skipped the review and watched the reaction
I always skip them...
You'll probably never read this, Mr. Critic. But I've been watching for a long time. I'm in a kind of rehab right now and your videos help get me through.
Thank you.
Good luck to you man!
Good luck to you!
Stay strong, stay occupied!
What rehab? Weed?
Good luck! :-)
I love this movie. I just watched it today! It's the weirdest movie I ever watched. *IN A GOOD WAY.*
Actually, "Mars Attacks" was supposed to be like a cheap, old B-movie based on trading cards that were made in 1962. The Mars Attacks trading cards even had the martians kidnapping women, burning cows, shooting dogs, using the same weapons and robots, and other stuff you see in the movie.
Why did Jack Black get the whole soldier's funeral? Dude was caught live on national television surrendering and literally hiding behind the flag. Doesn't the military tend to look down on that kind of thing?
Derek Johns uhh to be honest if your enemy had energy weapons that with one hit turns anyone into bones I pretty sure anyone would surrender
Derek Johns it's a movie.
Derek Johns I found that part hilarious.
I'm not so much questioning the act itself, I just find it hard to believe any military would spend taxpayer money rewarding said act.
Well, it's a bit late to file an indictment against him and even if you do, how are you going to punish him?
Without a military court sentencing him, he technically did die in the line of duty (no matter how cowardly).
So, should they go through the entire court case or simply bury him with a soldier's funeral? I'd say the latter is cheaper.
Happy New Year to all the crew
Shut that door!
I see it as various charicatures fumbling through absurd situations and I can't tell you how I find it entertaining