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The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai
1984
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. While testing his jet-propelled Ford .. Read more
| Starring | Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Clancy Brown |
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| Director | W.D. Richter |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai
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. While testing his jet-propelled Ford Fiesta, he drives through a rock, accidentally unleashing alien criminals from another planet who were imprisoned there. Suddenly, "Earth saver" seems destined to be added to Buckaroo's list of occupations, but not if evil Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow) has his way. Less than successful in its 1984 theatrical run, W.D. Richter's wild, anything-goes sci-fi comic book comedy has developed a rabid cult of admirers in the ensuing years.
| Starring | Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Clancy Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli |
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| Director | W.D. Richter |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 16 Jun 2003 Production year: 1984 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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Comic book hero and rock star Banzai (Peter Weller) crashes his Jet Car through the eighth dimension and unwittingly opens a hole in time. Unless he and his weirdo team of Hong Kong Cavaliers close it, evil aliens will overrun the Earth. Far too clever and quirky for its own good, this esoteric cult movie (the directing debut of WD Richter, writer of the 1979 Dracula) is a wacky spaced-out oddity. Watching it is like being on the outside of a gigantic in-joke trying desperately to understand what's so funny. An amazing cast, including Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd and John Lithgow (as mental patient Dr Lizardo), try their best to keep it all accessible but it wilfully degenerates into a huge impenetrable mess.
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"...It's a lunatic ball, an extremely genial, witty example of what is becoming a movie genre all its own....Hard to top for pure, nutty fun."
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Love it or Hate it
Buckaroo Banzai is a 80's Sci-Fi/Comedy/Adventure movie which now commands 'cult status' among fans young and old, I myself not one for giving up on a movie easily found myself gritting my teeth to get through the run time. This is a Love it or Hate it movie and the only point in my opinion that commanded any plus point from the movie was the performance from John Lithgow as an English Lord possessed by invaders from the 8th Dimension.
I would however as I did give it a whirl as you may well be on the Love side of the wall and become one of the many cult followers of the Hong Kong Cavaliers. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Quite possibly the worst film I've ever seen
I've kinda sorta known about this film for a long time and read a bit about it in movie books and so on, but I never got round to seeing it until I rented it out.
Wish I hadn't. Terrible, terrible film. All the worst excesses of badly made 1980s US sci-fi flicks combined with the vomitous dress sense of Rio era Duran Duran.
Think the unwanted mutant love child of They Live, Earth Girls Are Easy and Back To The Future, and then think worse.
Truly, terribly, awfully, atrociously very very bad indeed. -
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