It's up to rockstar/surgeon/test-pilot Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) to save the earth from inter-dimensional aliens and a mad scientist (John Lithgow).
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Buckaroo Banzai is the type of film you use to, "audition" a new friend. If they don't, "get it" then they are not worth associating with. This film is flat-out AWESOME! It has everything one could want in a movie: action, comedy, music, romance, aliens and watermelons. A lot of thought was put into this film and the universe it takes place in is so fleshed out that you could live in it. The DVD even comes with a caption track that adds to the story-line and character development. It's truly an obsessive's wet dream!
Post Script:
I have realized that there are probably about 10 on this planet who will respond to the, "selling points" I put forth in this review. Of those 10, I would say probably 9 have already seen this film. To the rest of the world I guess I'll say: It's kind-of/sort-of like The Fifth Element...but set in New Jersey.
Post Script:
I have realized that there are probably about 10 on this planet who will respond to the, "selling points" I put forth in this review. Of those 10, I would say probably 9 have already seen this film. To the rest of the world I guess I'll say: It's kind-of/sort-of like The Fifth Element...but set in New Jersey.
I'm (very happily) part of the 9. My dad had this on LaserDisc, but we didn't have anything to play it on by the time I was born. So until my dad found a VHS copy at Blockbuster when I was in jr. high, all I had to go on was my dad's reminiscences and an overall feeling that I would love this movie. And I did. You're right about the DVD extras, they are some of the best I've seen put to a film. Excellent Thanksgiving choice, haha.
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