The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
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Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 10
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Despite mixed reviews and a disastrous initial release that dumped the film into theaters for a week in the midst of the 1984 Summer Olympics, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension went on to become one of the major cult films of the 1980s, developing a rabid following after its release on videotape. Drifting between satire and improbable sci-fi adventure, the film stars Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai, the son of an American mother and Japanese father who is a combination
Jan 1, 1984 Wide
Jan 4, 2002
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Cast
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Peter Weller
Buckaroo Banzai -
John Lithgow
Dr. Emilio Lizardo, Lor... -
Ellen Barkin
Penny Priddy -
Jeff Goldblum
New Jersey -
Christopher Lloyd
John Bigboote -
Lewis Smith
Perfect Tommy -
Rosalind Cash
John Emdall -
Robert Ito
Prof.Hikita -
Pepe Serna
Reno Nevada -
Ronald Lacey
President Widmark -
Matt Clark
Secretary of Defense -
Clancy Brown
Rawhide -
John Ashton
Highway Patrolman -
Jonathan Banks
Lizardo Hospital Guard -
Raye Birk
1st Reporter -
Mariclare Costello
Sen. Cunningham -
John Walter Davis
Star Surgeon -
Jesse Lawrence Ferguson
Black Lectroid -
Leonard Gaines
Artie Duncan -
Robert Gray
First Radar Blaze -
Laura Harrington
Mrs. Johnson -
Dan Hedaya
John Gomez -
Bill Henderson
Casper Lindley -
Damon Hines
Scooter Lindley -
James Keane
Duck Hunter Bubba -
Ken Magee
Duck Hunter Burt -
Jane Marla Robbins
2nd Reporter -
James Saito
Dr. Masado Banzai -
Michael Santoro
Billy Travers -
Yakov Smirnoff
National Security Advis... -
William Traylor
Gen. Catburd -
Vincent Schiavelli
John O'Connor -
Billy Vera
Pinky Carruthers -
Gary Bisig
Second Radar Blaze -
Reed Morgan
Exhibitor -
Kent Perkins
Mission Control -
Kevin Rodney Sullivan
John Gant -
Francine Lembi
TV Anchorwoman -
Carl Lumbly
John Parker -
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (10) | DVD (22)
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.
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
Top CriticThe film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke.
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.
Off-the-wall and incoherent but colorful and eccentric, this satire, benefiting from a great cast, became a cult item.
It's a whole lot of thought put into a movie in which not very much happens.
A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff.
Buckaroo Banzai is like decades of escapist pulp filtered through the skeptic's shrug of the mid-'80s.
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.
There's so much going on here and so much fun to be had, I've never really been sure what the plot was.
Completely out-of-control and one of a kind
An offbeat movie with a gee-whiz approach to popular culture.
An endearing piece of trash with a devoted group of fans.
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