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Sci-fi parodies like these usually struggle to work, but Buckaroo Banzai succeeds through total devotion to its own lunacy.
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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. Aug 20, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Richard Corliss
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing. Aug 16, 2007 | Full Review…
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
Geoff Andrew
It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own. Jun 5, 2007 | Full Review…
It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
Variety Staff
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. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5
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.
Vincent Canby
This is a chaotic, notably unfunny science-fiction spoof. Jan 4, 2018 | Full Review…
This is a chaotic, notably unfunny science-fiction spoof.
Richard Freedman
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. Feb 28, 2017 | Full Review…
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.
Austin Trunick
It's easy to see the appeal, what with its loopy characters, its loopy plot, and its loopy dialogue -- it's just a shame there's not more lurking underneath all that surface quirk. Sep 17, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It's easy to see the appeal, what with its loopy characters, its loopy plot, and its loopy dialogue -- it's just a shame there's not more lurking underneath all that surface quirk.
Matt Brunson
A one-film franchise that never was, too daft and marvelous to expand any further. Aug 11, 2014 | Rating: A | Full Review…
A one-film franchise that never was, too daft and marvelous to expand any further.
Rob Vaux
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. Jul 31, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Nick Rogers
Off-the-wall and incoherent but colorful and eccentric, this satire, benefiting from a great cast, became a cult item. Jul 8, 2011 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Off-the-wall and incoherent but colorful and eccentric, this satire, benefiting from a great cast, became a cult item.
Emanuel Levy
It's a whole lot of thought put into a movie in which not very much happens. Jun 24, 2010 | Full Review…
It's a whole lot of thought put into a movie in which not very much happens.
Luke Y. Thompson
A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff. May 6, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff.
Film4 Staff
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