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Podcast: Cinema on Tap
Episode: S2E11 SciFi Comedies - Mars Attacks!
Description: Sci-fi comedy month isn’t over just yet but it’s our last full review of the month. We take a turn to full blown spoof town as we talk Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!
With a massive celebrity cast fending off an alien invasion, Mars Attacks! is the Wario to Independence Day’s Mario (they even came out in the same year). But, does Burton’s sillier send-up of 1950s sci-fi films match up to Roland Emmerich’s box office champ?
Our hosts have thoughts — one of them might even prefer this to Back to the Future...