Invaders from Mars (Special Edition)
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Actor: Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Hillary Brooke, Jimmy Hunt, Leif EricksonBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Invaders from Mars (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Invaders from Mars, still one of the better films.
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm watching the British version as I write this, I just saw the American version.
First of all I take exception that some reviews keep mentioning the zippers in the back of the martian's. What did they expect, magnetic clasp, buttons, hooks and loops? Unless you were expecting to see naked martians I'd say the zippers are just fine--they are wearing cloths and shoes you know. Nor do I really believe it falls into campy--so old it is amusingly funny. I feel they did a fine job except for that "mutant" crack they kept using as an excuse to have martian slaves or servants. The obvious science involved in this film (inside the spaceship) looked fine to me--and who cares if they turned over a can of latex paint and blew bubbles through it to simulate the martians melting walls of dirt...it looked fine to me.
This movie, though a popcorn movie, is still somewhat serious and acted very well by the kid and all the cast.
So let's get to it.
PROS:
1. Neat idea carried out properly.
2. Fine acting, that's a star.
3. Written just fine, that's a star, lots of tense moments and no filler I could spot, no sub plots.
4. Neat special effects.
5. Look at how those cuties dressed. I remember them from when I was a kid. Look at the scene where the kid runs to his mother at night. She wakes up, hair is brushed, lips properly lipsticked, the correct amount of war paint around the eyes. Yes sir, maybe we shouldn't tell them that the realitly was they all went to bed in curls and cold cream. But I got to tell you, did they all look like that outside the house...well, they tried to.
six. Just got to the end of the British version, I think there's a couple extra scenes in it!
7. Movie starts out with the right type of science fiction music and background paintings and voice-over of the day. On the back of the case it says 1953--the year I was born. They did a fine job making this a character study as well as an action movie. Even when the General's sergeant got sucked into the hole and the General says to the man restraining him, "Renaudies' been with me twenty years...we may have no counter weapon but if it's a fight they want they're going to get it!" Even that one line character study is sufficent to understand the General's mind set. Yes...above average writing.
8. Lots of stock footage showing the Army packing up equipment and moving it to the site. So what, you can't have a military unit go on manuevers just so you can get some new stock footage for a movie...not even back then.
I don't see any reason to go futher. This is one of those old classical science fiction movies that cries for popcorn and a deeper study to get its' full impact. CONS: There really aren't any no matter what everybody else says. The only thing you could have done better is updating the special effects and we've seen what Hollywood does when it remakes a movie--so we don't want that!
Looking at it more...no, definitly well written, acted and directed.
So that's it, Buy, don't rent.
Summary of Invaders from Mars (Special Edition)
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