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Peter Weller stars as the titular hero, who makes his living as a physicist, neurosurgeon, secret agent and rock star traveling through a comic-book universe with his band of assistants and background...( read more 
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MCT:June 1, 2008Interested
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MCT:January 5, 2007
want to see it.
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MCT:December 1, 2008
Buckaroo Banzai: neurosurgeon, particle physics engineer, martial arts master, rock and roll star, consultant to the President, and head of the influential Banzai Institute. Has there ever been a cooler character to appear on the silver screen? While it is true that the eponymous lead of the film is a fantastic bit of comical exaggeration, and that many of the characters surrounding him are just as strange and uniquely interesting, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension suffers from a serious, fatal flaw: it literally does not have anything resembling a coherent plot. The funny thing about this is that, at first, this is a great asset; the film is at its best at the beginning, when crazy concepts are tossed about with wild abandon, a random melange of wackiness with no form or structure to it. The problems come when the bizarre mish-mash of ideas thrust upon the screen finally do resolve themselves towards a specific dramatic destination; its as if the film becomes lackluster and uninteresting BECAUSE of its attempts to pull itself together into something more lucid, rather than in spite of this. The story, such as it is, begins when Banzai and his crew of scientists and engineers construct a jet-car that, through the use of a lazer channeling energy through the ingenious device called an Oscillation Overthruster, pierces the barrier between our world and the Eighth Dimension, a formless, electric limbo. Banzai soon discovers that he has inadvertantly opened a doorway for the malevolent Red Lectroids, an alien race from Planet Ten who are imprisoned in the dimension and whose remaining agents, led by Dr. Emilio Lizardo (alias John Whorfin), a scientist possessed by a Lectroid during an initial experiment with the 8th dimension, need the Overthruster to free their comrades and return to Planet Ten to rule over the benevolent Black Lectroids. In response, the Black Lectroids present Banzai with an ultimatum: stop the Red Lectroids from succeeding, or the Black Lectroids will instigate World War III. Or something like that. (more to come)
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MCT:November 8, 2008Guitar-playing brain surgeon Buckaroo Banzai travels into the 8th dimension, prompting the evil Dr. Lizardo (a brilliantly warped John Lithgow) to steal Buckaroo's oscillation overthruster in order to destroy Earth with an army of evil aliens. Ridiculous? You bet. It's also a blast.
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MCT:October 23, 2008
Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller), who is, to say the least, multi-talented. Brain surgeon, rock star, theoretical physicist, action hero, and the star of his own line of semi-biographical comic books. Buckaroo's interdimensional experiments with his new invention, the Operation Overthruster, throw Earth into an alien war, and he finds himself with scant hours to save the world. Peter Weller, as Banzai, gets to play to his strengths, though in his case it's an icy-cool deadpan heroism, quiet, calm, and rigid. But Jeff Goldblum is certainly the most memorable here as a new recruit to Banzai's team. Director W.D. Richter keeps things moving as breathlessly as possible, sometimes too fast for us to absorb everything, learn character names, or even allow certain sentences to be finished. A pleasing draught of old-fashioned serial adventure clichés.
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kozureokamiposted 138 days ago -
It's like a train wreck in the making composed entirely of one-liners. You feel a bit guilty and wrong for doing it... but you HAVE to watch.
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