The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | | Cast : | Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin | | Director : | W.D. Richter | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | August 15, 1984 | | DVD Released Date : | June 08, 2004 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Cult classic my kids love | Content
 | This is a typical 80's "B" movie, but just like the classics, we love it anyway. A cast of actors that have gone on to great heights tops a script that is over the top in all ways. This one is fun enough for my teen age kids to enjoy, even with all the the kitsch, they over look the effects and enjoy the ride!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 05, 2005 | | Summary | Great goofiness | Content
| - on a low budget. Buckaroo is the all-around American hero: rock star, brain surgeon, race driver, someone who puts the President on "hold," but who'll stop the show for a damsel in distress.
This time, he's out to save the Earth from the Lectroids of Planet 10 across the eighth dimension. (Dimensions four through seven seem to have gone astray, but don't let that worry you.) Buckaroo is the only one who can see them as they really are, so it's his job to lead his men (girls not invited, apparently) on this mission against the Lectroids and their front company Yoyodyne. Along the way, he enlists Scooter, a small boy in the Buckaroo fan club, Scooter's father (with a helicopter conveniently at hand), and Penny Pretty. She's the token female, suitable for screaming, saving, and wearing of costumes that threaten structural failure at any moment.
This movie promised a sequel, one which seems never to have appeared. That's probably for the best. This movie had its own mad logic, but I'm not sure it would have withstood repetition.
It's a goofy cult classic, suitable for lots of popcorn and a late night when you don't want to worry about things making sense. It's a self-concious satire of a half-dozen adventure genres, but you don't have to worry about that too much. Just let it all wash over you.
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| Rating | | | Date | December 18, 2004 | | Summary | No "STUFFED SHIRTS" allowed! | Content
| Perhaps those that don't get the humor and cultural signifignace of this movie would prefer watching more "adult" movies. What inspires someone who has no sense of humor to pick up a movie calle "Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension?" I mean, did ya think it was a Merchant Ivory film?
Come on. This is is hysterical, and not liking the John Lithgow performance because it is "over the top?" Please. JL IS high camp at its finest. As an alien, he is hysterical. I probably watched this movie a dozen times when I was a kid and I loved it!
It's not about a "plot" or "characted development" or any of that other stuff y'all are compalining about. It is just for laughs, and was probably a bit ahead of its time.
Loved it. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 25, 2004 | | Summary | One of my all time favorites..... | Content
| And now that it is out in DVD it's even better. Ya don't have to be a Sci Fi junky to enjoy this film. Just leave your serious side in the closet and you'll have a ball. Fast moving, energetic and a great cast, make this a classic. I've waited years for em to make a sequal, guess thats not gonna happen.
Peter Weller is excellent as Buckeroo and his mismatched band of followers are just as good. Too many good characters in this film to name 'em all.
Highly recommend this to all ages. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 10, 2004 | | Summary | Not for your average movie viewer | Content
| This movie will probably appeal to fans of Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintance" and Becket's "Waiting for Godot". The quality of the film is uniquely philosophical-often toward existentialalism and absurdism. "Wherever you go, there you are."
The visual and literary quality of the movie is intentionally bad, a fact that is ignored or unknown by many (perhaps all) who denounce the film. Admittedly, while I laughed through the entirety of the film multiple times, I must say that I thought it a terrible film upon first viewing.
However, the movie has a very humorous nature. Scientists (or future scientists) will often get a kick out of the various jokes that include a pickup truck being used to go faster than Mach 1, and that lithium can no longer be bought on credit. A wasted shame.
favorite bit-Jeff Goldblum is dressed in a cowboy hat, books, chaps and vest. When asked where he was from, he replies, with utter seriousness, "New Jersey." |
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