The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension! (1984)
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Sci-fi, Adventure
Country: USA
Directed By: W.D. Richter
Written By: Earl Mac Rauch
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jonathan Banks, Clancy Brown, Peter Weller, Lewis Smith, Leonard Gaines, Carl Lumbly, Robert Ito
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4. The Guardian's 1000 films to see before you die (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 27 stars)
5. Directorial debut (public: moderated by djross - 17 stars)
6. The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen - Richard Crouse (public: moderated by Blindfolk - 14 stars)
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| Jan 27 |  |
Carlospro | 75 64% |
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eCitizen | 35 25% |
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Despite an incredibly star-studded cast, this movie is about as lame as a Sci-Fi can get. There is ZERO immersion. The special effects and costumes were incredibly stupid. The plot and dialogs were asinine. Terrible acting. Not funny. It was such a waste of time and money. Even after considering it was made back in 1984 it still pretty much reeks. An embarrassment to all involved.
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同志Aris | 66 37% |
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hotsake | 43 25% |
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Is it bad that I find this stupid and boring?
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i have questions
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Phil Clowns | 51 9% |
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| Aug 22, 2019 | Contreras | 2 12% |
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| Aug 17, 2019 | account2 | 81 94% |
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| Aug 16, 2019 |  |
Luna6ix | 71 35% |
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Buckaroo Bonzai is clearly the strung out result of a relatively tame seed idea with more and more absurdity tacked on in preproduction brainstorming sessions. The product has a lot in common with SNL alum movies where a skit character was stretched into an abomination of a full length movie, only the difference is, this one is crazy and bombed at the box office and is therefore, a cult comedy. I can't say I was all too impressed, but it does have it's share of ridiculous charm.
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forgopoulos | 70 37% |
| Jan 28, 2019 | TheMarkle | 60 38% |
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Archeologian | 70 62% |
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Pretty fun little b-movie that doesn't take anything seriously.
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| Jan 11, 2019 | ZgGost | 60 44% |
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Wolfbrother | 75 36% |
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cairosmith | 67 61% |
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Suffers from a lack of arc for anyone involved. Incredibly fun and corny. Due for a remake.
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Making his debut as a director, W.D. "Rick" Richter doesn't bring out the baroque lunacy of the material-a kind of fermented parody of M*A*S*H, STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and the TV series "The A-Team"-but though the characters don't develop and the laughs don't build or come together, the film's uninflected deadpan tone is somehow likable.
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kylefilms | 50 40% |
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WWallce4prez | 64 32% |
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Being self-aware with your quirkiness is a difficult thing to nail, even Wes Anderson overdoes it from time to time. There are laughs to be had in Richter's odd film, but the concept is much funnier than the product. The cast goes on for miles and remains the reason to dig up this relic of odd.
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| Jun 29, 2018 | Prism | 65 29% |
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You either get it, or you don’t. I clearly.. don’t.
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A wondrous piece of pulp fiction that doesn't know what it's doing half the time except give Peter Weller a career and have more fun than it deserves to.
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| Oct 30, 2017 | jpsala | 80 69% |
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skap | 45 16% |
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It starts out as rather very promising, but gets more and more annoying. I must have a lower threshold of tolerance for incompetence than the people that gave it positive reviews. The thing is that the incompetence in this movie is never really hilarious. I wasn't watching it with condescension, I really made an effort to enjoy it, but I coudn't finish it.
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| Nov 14, 2016 | Ronin22 | 52 54% |
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amerigo | 70 27% |
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Feels like they wanted to make this movie an absurdist adventure in the vein of Airplane! and Brazil all mixed together. Too bad the writer was high off bath salts at the time, so what you really get is the film equivelent of breaking into a paint factory and gnawing on heavy machinery while screaming Buckaroo Banzai at a confused security guard.
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lachapelle | 70 33% |
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As much as Robocop stands at one end of SciFi's view of the near future, Buckaroo stands at the other. This is not an easy movie to follow, with convoluted dialogue and amateurish editing, but the actors actually looked like they had fun making this film. John Lithgow and Chris Lloyd chew up the scenery every time they are on screen. This is a snapshot of 1984 and it doesn't hold up in 2016, but ultimately it is fun all the way to the end credits.
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Overload of cheesy 80s aesthetic, but it's still a pretty fun ride.
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Why doesn't this work better than it does? Seems like it should, but it simply does not grab.
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Koalafish | 50 11% |
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Quite disapointing, because all the ingredients for awesomeness are there. A great cast and a weird script are a good start, but those alone don't guarantee a funny film.
Just watch the trailer instead!
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| Jan 08, 2015 |  |
guy piranha | 50 23% |
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the title is spectacular. the trailer is spectacular. the cast is spectacular. the movie is a waste of time.
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| Dec 26, 2014 | zomgmouse | 80 71% |
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