A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff.
05/06/08 04:39 PM
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
69 %
Reviews Counted: 32 Fresh: 22 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Synopsis:
A wild, unpredictable and witty sci-fi comedy in which the survival of the entire human race hinges on the efforts of one man--Buckaroo Banzai. Buckaroo (Peter Weller) possesses an unusual number of professional skills--he's a neurosurgeon, race car driver, rock star, and comic book hero.... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum
Reviews
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08/16/07 03:16 AM
Top Critic Buckaroo Banzai is like decades of escapist pulp filtered through the skeptic's shrug of the mid-'80s.
03/03/08 08:16 PM
Punch lines appear without set-ups and set-ups without punch lines. Characters come and go with such bewildering speed that it is virtually impossible to keep track of the story, which jumps around enough to induce motion sickness.
06/05/07 12:55 PM
Top Critic It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
06/05/07 12:54 PM
Top CriticThe film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke.
06/05/07 12:52 PM
There's so much going on here and so much fun to be had, I've never really been sure what the plot was.
05/26/06 03:17 AM
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
02/09/06 03:16 AM
Top Critic
An offbeat movie with a gee-whiz approach to popular culture.
08/19/04 01:51 PM
Buckaroo Banzai may well turn out to be a pilot film for other theatrical features, though this one would be hard to top for pure, nutty fun.
05/20/03 05:05 PM
Top Critic One of the crappiest films of all time. Yet somehow, inexplicably, it's also one of the coolest films of all time . . . like reading a really bad Japanese comic book on acid
03/20/03 02:46 AM
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