A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon.
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08/20/08
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:24
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin
Director: W.D. Richter
Reviews for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th...
A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff.
05/06/08
Top CriticBuckaroo Banzai is like decades of escapist pulp filtered through the skeptic's shrug of the mid-'80s.
03/03/08
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
08/16/07
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
Top CriticIt violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
06/05/07
Top CriticThe film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke.
06/05/07
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
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
02/09/06
Top CriticNo review available.
08/14/05
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08/14/05
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07/15/05
Completely out-of-control and one of a kind
06/24/05
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05/16/05
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05/12/05
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08/27/04
An offbeat movie with a gee-whiz approach to popular culture.
08/19/04
No review available.
03/12/04
An endearing piece of trash with a devoted group of fans.
09/16/03
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
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