The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Buckaroo Banzai is caught with his trusted allies, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, in a battle to the death between evil red aliens and good black aliens from Planet 10. Now, it's up to him and his band to take on the evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension.
31 December 1938, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
24 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 July 1944, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
3 August 1958, USA
17 December 1951, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 May 1944, Riverside, California, USA
16 April 1954, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA
30 January 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 November 1936, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
22 October 1938, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
27 May 1943, Flint, Michigan, USA
July 31, 2014
There are fun fripperies to be found on the fringe of "Buckaroo's" free-for-all. But like the bells and whistles of a garish pinball game, they are but momentarily enjoyable distractions on a machine that was destined to tilt from the get-go.
June 24, 2010
It's a whole lot of thought put into a movie in which not very much happens.
June 05, 2007
It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
March 03, 2008
Buckaroo Banzai is like decades of escapist pulp filtered through the skeptic's shrug of the mid-'80s.
February 28, 2017
Just how much one will be able to jibe with Buckaroo Banzai will hinge on whether or not you're willing to buy into the movie's unabashed lunacy.
August 16, 2007
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
August 11, 2014
A one-film franchise that never was, too daft and marvelous to expand any further.
May 20, 2003
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.
July 08, 2011
Off-the-wall and incoherent but colorful and eccentric, this satire, benefiting from a great cast, became a cult item.
August 20, 2008
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.
May 06, 2008
A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff.
