Buckaroo Banzai is caught with his trusted allies, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, in a battle to the death between evil red aliens and good black aliens from Planet 10. Now, it's up to him and his band to take on the evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension.
19 December 1943, Ohio, USA
8 June 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA
8 October 1930, Kirksville, Missouri, USA
31 December 1938, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
27 May 1943, Flint, Michigan, USA
16 April 1954, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
30 January 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 October 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
24 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
11 December 1946, Texas, USA
29 April 1958, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
13 September 1922, USA
10 February 1945, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
18 September 1955, San Diego, California, USA
3 August 1958, USA
19 March 1926, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 June 1947, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
22 February 1948, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
31 January 1947, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6 March 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 November 1948, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
22 October 1938, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
24 January 1951, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
2 November 1943, New York City, New York, USA
3 February 1936, Peoria, Illinois, USA
July 31, 2014
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.
June 05, 2007
It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
May 20, 2003
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.
August 20, 2008
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.
February 28, 2017
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.
May 06, 2008
A genuine cult movie: imaginative and endearingly naff.
March 03, 2008
Buckaroo Banzai is like decades of escapist pulp filtered through the skeptic's shrug of the mid-'80s.
June 24, 2010
It's a whole lot of thought put into a movie in which not very much happens.
July 08, 2011
Off-the-wall and incoherent but colorful and eccentric, this satire, benefiting from a great cast, became a cult item.
August 16, 2007
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
August 11, 2014
A one-film franchise that never was, too daft and marvelous to expand any further.
