Looney Tunes: Marvin the Martian

Looney Tunes: Marvin the Martian is a 1995 American live-action/animated epic comic science fiction film directed by. Produced by and Warner Bros. Feature Animation as its first (and financially successful) film along with Crossover Films Co., Ltd. and, the film stars an ensemble cast, including , , , , , , ,  and , while ,  and  headline the voice cast.

The film premiered in Los Angeles on July 18, 1995 and was released in the United States on July 24, 1995 by Warner Bros. under their Family Entertainment unit, opening at number one at the North American box office and grossing over $243 million worldwide. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Animated Feature, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Effects Editing.

A video game adaptation of the same name was developed by and  and published by  for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation, Sega CD, Sega Saturn and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America on July 24, 1995, in Europe on August 4, 1995 and in Japan on August 10, 1995.

In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, finding it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

Plot
In 2030 A.D., the Surveillance Unit launched an all-out assault on Rosecurity's defense grid and mainframe at NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. The operation was successful and the computer mainframes were taken over. At the same time, Lieutenant Hayden Joseph Christensen led an assault on a contested Rosecurity stronghold featuring a laboratory complex in Westside, Los Angeles. Inside there is a Time Displacement Equipment, where Rosecurity had been conducting temporal experiments. The machine had already been used since Rosecurity decided to terminate Christensen in the past. Before its destruction, Rosecurity sent a Martian back to 1995, to take over the Earth.

In the present day, at a bus stop in Chicago, Illinois, video game designer Hayden Joseph Christensen recounts his life story to strangers who sit next to him on a bench.

In 1948, a 10-year-old Christensen is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop at Arches National Park in Utah. While scouting caves, Christensen discovers a group of grave robbers who have found a golden crucifix belonging to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and steals it from them, hoping to donate it to a museum. The men give chase through a passing circus train, leaving Christensen with a new phobia of snakes. Christensen escapes but the local sheriff makes him return the cross to the robbers, who immediately turn it over to a mysterious benefactor wearing a Panama hat. Impressed with the boy's bravery, the leader of the robbers gives Christensen his glasses, making him bespectacled.

Back in the present day, Christensen's life story is cut short when the meteorite lands on the park, creating dust. As Christensen begins to doubt what will be revealed if the dust disappears, he takes the bus just before it pulls away. In the bus, Christensen meets a woman named Courtney, and the two become best friends. Their romantic scene is however cut short when a UFO approaches to chase a bus. It mounted an attack on the bus, as the passengers except Christensen and Courtney panic. Before the UFO could destroy the bus, the bus driver and the passengers exit. In Palm Desert, Christensen and Courtney witness the bus's destruction.

As the Martians mounted their expedition in the desert, Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes spied on their meeting with Nicholas Thomas Simpson, the would-be ruler of the desert. When the U.S. caravan entered the desert, Marvin and the Martians mounted an attack from the hillside using rifles, fighting the U.S. Army soldiers.

Cast

 * as Hayden Joseph Christensen
 * as young Hayden Joseph Christensen
 * as Lieutenant Hayden Joseph Christensen
 * as Foster Bradshaw
 * as Jael Moon
 * as Cayson Gregory
 * as Zara Gregory
 * as Courtney Christensen
 * as Owen Moore
 * as Jael Moon
 * as Luke Mays
 * as Kyle Mays
 * as Elliot Harvey Moore, the main antagonist of the film and the founder of Rhinomedia
 * as James Thomas Moore, son of Elliot Harvey Moore
 * as Nicholas Thomas Simpson, the would-be ruler of Palm Desert
 * as Hayden Joseph Christensen, Jr.

Additionally, portrayed "the man with the Panama Hat" who took possession of the Cross of Coronado. plays Christensen's father in the film's 1948 flashback, although his face is never shown. plays Gome, the leader of the robbers, who appears in the 1948 flashback. , and  portray Gome's gang.

Cameos

 * as himself
 * as himself
 * as himself as the bus driver
 * as himself
 * as himself
 * as himself
 * as Detective from
 * as Detective from Lethal Weapon
 * as Leo Getz from Lethal Weapon
 * as William "D-Fens" Foster from
 * as Sgt. Martin Prendergast from Falling Down
 * as himself as an Asian man wearing a bamboo hat
 * as himself as an Asian man wearing a bamboo hat

Marvin the Martian's soldiers

 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman
 * Jim Jackman

Voice cast

 * as and /
 * as /
 * as and
 * as K-9