The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension! (1984)
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Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension (imdb)
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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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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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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amerigo | 70 26% |
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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 32% |
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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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| May 08, 2016 |  |
PeaceAnarchy | 77 51% |
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Overload of cheesy 80s aesthetic, but it's still a pretty fun ride.
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Fenius | 75 12% |
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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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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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guy piranha | 50 22% |
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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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chemical404 | 34 16% |
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It looked good on the paper, but ended up being a disappointment. For a movie where the main character is surgeon/adventurer/rock musician this film is surprisingly dull. It was hard to stay focused. Very childish. Cult film my ass.
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Suture Self | 3 25% |
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Don't let the premise of this film fool you. The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension! is an unenthusiastic, poorly edited, convoluted piece of shit, featuring horrible overacting from John Lithgow and a sociopathic, Keanu-Reeves-like performance from Peter Weller. It's also ugly as sin, with a junkyard kind of look and feel that made me nauseous. I continued to have anxiety about this long after the credits rolled. Blehehguhg. Even Johnny Mnemonic is better than this.
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I like this movie in theory because it's very weird, especially for a studio picture, but it's just not funny. Maybe it's a problem of expectations but I've seen this talked about as a quotable comedy classic and I didn't laugh once. Not once. It's just a straight sci-fi B-movie, and a lot of the actors seem a bit embarrassed about being in it. There were no jokes, just "Haha, look at the funny aliens."
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wacky movie with a fuckin great cast
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I really wanted to like this, but it's just too damn messy. It has its moments and good ideas but the end product is just completely incoherent.
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This starts off great but then slows to a halt for about half the running time. The plot becomes incomprehensible on a first viewing, and it feels like a sequel to an unproduced movie. Pays homage to science fiction B-movies with a lot of enthusiasm, and there are some good gags, but overall it drags and wastes an absolutely stunning cast. Works a lot better on paper than it does in practice.
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The premise and the line-up are solid, but the film never manages to engage, probably due to sloppy post-production, though I seem to be in the minority on this one.
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This movie would work much worse as a community stage production. Much, much worse.
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| Jan 25, 2013 | BradRapstars | 80 73% |
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ThePunisher | 80 83% |
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ratedargh | 30 8% |
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Ugh. Wink wink, look how ridiculous we are!
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SirStuckey | 65 39% |
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There are no words to describe this movie.
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octanoid77 | 73 2% |
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One_Louder | 80 65% |
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TheDenizen | 55 33% |
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International rock star and experimental physicist Buckaroo Banzai has to save the world from alien invaders from the 8th dimension. A great concept with an awesome cast that manages to fall well short of expectations. It's kinda fun seeing the profusion of bad 80's fashions (skinny ties and neon colors everywhere), but other than being weird, it offers very little in terms of real humor or action. Like ShogunRua said, this should have been great, but it's just decent.
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| Aug 14, 2012 |  |
ripvf | 77 51% |
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Didn't dislike this so much, it's fine and I could stand to rewatch/reevaluate. Not sure if being born in 82 has anything to do with that.
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| Jul 31, 2012 | MalkHead | 100 95% |
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