Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
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02/09/06
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
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
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Reviews for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th...
It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
06/05/07
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
A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff.
05/06/08
No review available.
05/12/05
One of the crappiest films of all time. Yet somehow, inexplicably, it's also one of the coolest films of all time . . . like reading a really bad Japanese comic book on acid
03/20/03
No review available.
03/12/04
Screams cult classic through and through
12/30/01
An endearing piece of trash with a devoted group of fans.
09/16/03
The film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke.
06/05/07
Top CriticNo review available.
08/14/05
Completely out-of-control and one of a kind
06/24/05
An offbeat movie with a gee-whiz approach to popular culture.
08/19/04
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
08/16/07
No review available.
08/21/02
[It] aims for wackiness and weirdness and probably attains it, but to be honest, it is a rather soulless piece of entertainment.
01/01/00
This is one of the few instances where I would have preferred to see a tremendously extended version because what’s onscreen is promising but incomplete.
02/08/02
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
No review available.
08/27/04
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