Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks! (1996) is Tim Burton's sci-fi comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Warner Bros. handed him a $70 million budget and a cast that reads like an Oscar ceremony: Jack Nicholson in two separate roles, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Danny DeVito, a teenage Natalie Portman, and Jack Black.

A Martian armada parks itself over every major city on Earth. The aliens say they come in peace. Washington scrambles to believe them — flags, handshakes, the full diplomatic treatment. Then a single ray-gun blast vaporizes the entire U.S. Congress. Generals want nukes. Scientists want negotiations. And somewhere in Kansas, a grandmother's record collection turns out to be the most effective weapon on the planet.

Burton built the whole film around a set of 1960s Topps bubble-gum cards that were too gruesome for kids and too weird for adults — and turned them into a gleeful takedown of every Hollywood disaster movie ever made. Stream Mars Attacks! (1996) in full online on iFILM.