An all-star cast shines in Tim Burton's campy take on the alien invasion movies of the 1950s.

When writing the script, it was unclear as to the sounds the Martians would eventually make, so the alien dialogue was written as "ack, ack ack!" This ended up being the language spoken by the Martian invaders.

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