Mars Attacks! is the second movie I've seen recently with both Sarah Jessica Parker acting poorly and the song,"Indian Love Call" (or just "The Call") being made fun of. Mars Attacks! is a little more fun than Dudley Do-Right, and Parker's boring, useless, and frankly obnoxious character is more funny in this environment than she is in the kids movie.
Mars Attacks is full of star power, but I a lot of it (Jack Black and Natalie Portman) is before these actors became stars. It's a dark and cynical comedy, but it's light-hearted enough in its cynicism that it's still "Enjoyable". Even though there is a lot of death, it's lack of gore makes it palatable.
The movie meanders along a pretty improved plot. Anything can happen and a lot of it does. It is a great parody of 50's horror schlock.
Analysis (spoiler alert):
The most interesting thing about this alien movie is it takes the opposite stance that most alien invasion movies take. Especially more recent alien movies. In this film, it assumes people would be forgiving of an alien race rather than so threatened and imperialistic that we'd try to wipe kill them first. I actually think it's a little more likely that we would kill aliens than try to befriend them, especially after apparent acts of war, but perhaps that's just my jaded cyicism talking. I do try to keep that part of me quelled down.
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