Movie connections for
Mars Attacks! (1996) More at IMDbPro »

References

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
"Leave It to Beaver" (1957)
Chikyû Bôeigun (1957)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
"The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (#1.22)" (1960)
 -  In the opening scene they hear a flying saucer and the speech sounds like it is directly from the episode down to a person with references even to the fact that the people witnessing it at first are two male neighbors
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Kaijû daisenso (1965)
"Batman" (1966)
"Little House on the Prairie" (1974)
Star Wars (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Gremlins (1984)
Beetle Juice (1988)
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
 -  In a scene inside the UFO, the fat clown killed by the Penguin in Batman Returns (1992), an earlier film by Tim Burton, can be found inside one of the glass spheres.

Referenced in

Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Space Jam (1996)
 -  Cartoonish aliens in bright vivid neon settings
"Showbiz Today: (1996-12-12)" (1996)
 -  the premiere of this movie is covered
"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: Mars Attracts! (#1.16)" (1997)
 -  title reference
"ReBoot: Icons (#3.5)" (1997)
 -  Design and speech of the aliens in the first game
Men in White (1998) (TV)
 -  Saucer fleets
"The Simpsons: Viva Ned Flanders (#10.10)" (1999)
 -  Homer plans to tell Marge that he and Ned were abducted by aliens before he created an invention which blew all of the aliens heads up. This is similar to the ending in Mars Attacks!
Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (1999) (V)
"ER: Mars Attacks (#7.3)" (2000)
 -  Open reference by a character
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
War of the Monsters (2003) (VG)
 -  the Zorgulons
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
 -  A Martian trooper action figure can be seen in one scene.
"Smallville: Splinter (#5.7)" (2005)
 -  The poster for this film can be seen on the wall of Chloe's and Lana's dorm room.
Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills & Painted Nightmares (2005)
 -  Mars Attacks bubblegum cards shown.
"Veronica Mars: Un-American Graffiti (#3.16)" (2007)
 -  The comic on Wallace and Piz's door reads "Mars Attacks!"
JCVD (2008)
 -  a standee of one of its characters appears in the video store display window

Features

"The Lawrence Welk Show" (1955)
"The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979)
Gojira vs. Biorante (1989)
Rapa Nui (1994)

Spoofs

Target Earth (1954)
 -  Use of yodeling sounds to destroy invaders
This Island Earth (1955)
 -  Flying saucer at start of title sequence and the one carrying the severed head characters, uses identical angles and movements to the saucers of This Island Earth.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Yojimbo (1961)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
 -  The gadget keeping Pierce Brosnan's head alive is a spoof of the device that kept Jan's head alive in this movie.
"The Brady Bunch" (1969)
 -  Just after the First Lady gets killed from a chandelier, President Dale says "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia", a la Jan Brady
The Terminator (1984)
Dead Ringers (1988)
 -  martians dressed up as Dead Ringers' twin surgeons in a scene
The Addams Family (1991)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Independence Day (1996)

Spoofed in

Muppets from Space (1999)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
 -  An alien is destroyed with a cassete player in both movies.
Mercano, el marciano (2002)

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