My Favorite Martian
My Favorite Martian is a 1999 American science-fiction comedy film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn, Wayne Knight and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name which Walston starred in. A Mickey Mouse Works short, Pluto Gets The Paper: Spaceship, was shown in theaters with it. The film received negative reviews from critics and audiences and was a box office bomb, grossing $36.8 million against a $65 million budget.
Plot
The film opens on Mars, showing the last moments of a Mars rover's mission. As the rover prepares to sample Martian rock, it sadly "kicks the bucket". The mission controllers congratulate themselves on a "successful" mission, while back on Mars the scene pans up from the dead rover to show a huge undiscovered Martian city. A spaceship is seen quickly rocketing from the city and accelerating into space.
More details
| author | Deanna Oliver Sherri Stoner |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | California |
| director | Donald Petrie |
| editor | Malcolm Campbell |
| events | extraterrestrial life |
| genre | action animation comedy science fiction |
| keywords | air force base back to life capture chewing gum crash landing dna drive end explore gift gum hidden camera hide out kill kiss knock out land laugh live broadcast mar martian mission control morning news report nothing old friend search for extraterrestrial intelligence security guard seti shrink space shuttle spacecraft steal think vandenberg air force base warn |
| musicBy | John Debney |
| producer | Jerry Leider Marc Toberoff Robert Shapiro |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Pictures |
| publisher | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| theme | buddy comedy extraterrestrial life race shapeshifting |