This movie is very good, it tries to co for that cheesey, clasic 50's B movie, and dose a pretty good job, andjust like movies from the 50's there are little issues: 1. COmic style violence that no one can take seriously, the martin's guns turn people into skeletons, Humans are abducted by the martians and experimented on, green martian blood when the martinas die. 2. Very little languge including afew uses of H--l, and one s--t, but other than that the language is fine. 3. A coule can briefly bee seen having sex (no nudity), with a coule matrians watching, the martian king breifly looks at a porn magazine from earth (no nudity either). So osverall, this is a fun 50's B movie with better special effects that is fun for teens young and old.
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Mars Attacks!
(1996, Rated PG-13, Comedy, Starring Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Jack Nicholson, Natalie Portman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lukas Haas)
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Not age appropriate for kids under 11, age appropriate for kids over 13; suggested age 12. -
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Alien-invasion satire for older tweens and up.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 12–13
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About Mars Attacks!
Parents need to know this movie was based on a notorious series of trading cards that were censored for gruesomeness, and director Tim Burton doesn't hold back: abundant cartoony violence includes people being turned into skeletons by a death ray, vivisection (and whimsical re-assembly) of living humans, Martians' brains swelling and bursting, and cruelty to (computer-generated) animals. In addition the filmmakers have added some prostitutes to the blend. There is a subtle anti-authoritarian tone that kids have the smarts to save the world after all the annoying adults are wiped out.
Read our full review by Charles Cassady Jr.
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- I rate this title on for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
50's style movie is fun for young teens
- I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
If you like violence this is the movie for you!
This is a VERY violent movie. Many say that language is not an issue BUT it is... Do you know what those Martians are saying? Who knows. I have seen lots of violent movies and on the violence meter this is WAY up there probably broke the scale.
- I rate this title off for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
Not suitable for under 15s, really. It's violent and too scary.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
This will make kids laugh more than it will scare them
The first time I really checked this out was before going to bed and I wanted to stop since I was about to go to bed but when I watched it all the way throug, I lauged. A race of martian aliens decide to invade earth. They have normal sized bodies but have huge heads. They try to invade a few times, each time disentagrating humans with a gun that zaps people and vaporizes their skin, leaving behind a red or green skeleton. This is just a movie full of crazy slapstick antics. For the 10 and up crowd.
- I rate this title off for age 2 and give it
i lost six brain cells watching this
after i watched this ime gonna be scared of freakin aliens for the rest of my freakin life
- I rate this title off for age 2 and give it
UGH!!!!...
I remember surfing through TV channels , and we found this , so we watched it. My dad thought it was funny , and I thought it was horrible!!!!!! The violence! THE STUPIDNESS! I think that people who make stories of bad aliens are pretty dumb , because nobody said aliens , or things from another planet [ well , thier has to be some life in the other millions of planets!] had to be mean. I really suggest ET instead!
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