"Nice planet. We'll take it!"
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Summary of the movie: The Citizens of Earth face their doom with gung-ho valor and brainless abandon as little green men from outer space gleefully terrorize the planet in an all-star, cross-country sci-fi comedy from director Tim Burton.
Jack Nicholson as President of the United States James Dale, worried about the best suit to wear to greet the Martians; Glenn Close as appearance-obsessive First Lady Marsha, not about to have those things in her house; and Natalie Portman as First Daughter Taffy, bored with the whole hullabaloo -- a family that is one of the first to come unglued! Rod Steiger as General Decker, who never met a war he didn't like; Paul Winfield as General Casey, who wants to drive the welcome wagon; Martin Short as the Oval Office's hormonally driven spin doctor, Press Secretary Jerry Ross; and Pierce Brosnan as Professor Donald Kessler, who wants to know what makes those big-brained fiends tick!
Sarah Jessica Parker as hip go-getter fashion-newsgal Nathalie Lake and Michael J. Fox as her straighter-laced boyfriend and newshound rival Jason Stone -- race to scoop the story of the millennium without mussing their hair! Lukas Haas as slacker stoner Richie Norris and Sylvia Sidney as his hazy-headed grandma make up a cross-generational vigilante team to battle the Martian madness! And back in the Capitol City, Pam Grier takes no guff as Louise Williams, and Lisa Marie woos her way into the White House as the alluring, irresistible Martian Girl!
Granted, this movie is probably not for everyone, but if you're a fan of Burton's eccentric ideas and style, you're probably going to love this, especially if you enjoyed his earlier effort, "Beetlejuice." Natalie doesn't have all that much to do in this movie, except being bored by the whole Martian invasion thing, grabbing some of the best lines, and looking good as usual. |
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Playing the Earthlings under intergalactic siege is a stellar cast of
dazzlers unlike any assembled on the silver screen before:
