Storyline
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Directors
Cast
Peter Weller, Dan Hedaya, Clancy Brown, Ken Magee, John Lithgow, Jonathan Banks, Jeff Goldblum, Pepe Serna, John Ashton, Laura Harrington, Ellen Barkin, Ronald Lacey, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Matt Clark, Lewis Smith, Carl Lumbly, Read Morgan, Yakov Smirnoff, James Keane, Mariclare Costello, Robert Gray, Damon Hines, Bill Henderson, Leonard Gaines, Michael Santoro, William Traylor, John Walter Davis, Robert Ito, Rosalind Cash, Billy Vera, Gary Bisig, Kent Perkins, Francine Lembi, James Rosin
Trailer
Reviews
100
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is your typical sci-fi/action/comedy/rock&roll/kung-fu/political satire/neo-western/guys-on-a-mission extravaganza.
83
Banzai is an occasionally incomprehensible rush of subplots, sight gags, mythology, and bizarre fashion choices, truer to the spirit of classic adventure stories than to the letter. Which may be why people who love the film feel the way they do. Buckaroo Banzai assumes an attitude of poise and purpose in an otherwise awkward universe.
80
Buckaroo Banzai is an easy movie to love, though at times a difficult movie to understand.
80
At its best, which it frequently is, it's a lunatic ball, an extremely genial, witty example of what is becoming a movie genre all its own.
78
Wonderfully fun, albeit markedly chaotic and incoherent.
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