![]() Even ardent fans can probably admit that, even as it charms with fantastical ideas and fun special effects, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai feels overloaded. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai exceeds its counterparts with a much more unique take on old ideas – warring alien clans are invading, Buckaroo is Flash Gordon, Team Banzai is the Justice League, et cetera – but it also falls short by cramming too much ridiculousness into one package and wearing out most mainstream audiences. However, unlike those more popular films, Richter and writer Earl Mac Rauch updated the pulp references for the mid-’80s, both praising and spoofing the era. Like George Lucas’ Star Wars (1977) or Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), it celebrates the pulp traditions of the decades prior and builds an internal mythology on referential ideas. ![]() These aspects work in the film’s favor in terms of its originality and, ironically enough, nostalgia. The key issues for and against The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is its weirdness and optimism. the Red Lectroids” in the backyard, but I’ll do my best. I don’t know if I’m able to approach this particular film from a genuinely critical place, seeing that I used to play “Team Banzai vs. Also, because The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai was one of three movies we owned – and because ‘80s daytime television was terrible – I usually ended up watching it when I stayed home sick from school. For a time, there was a loosely defined, pseudo-father/son tradition of watching either it or John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986, more on that in a moment) when my mother was out of town for work/school reasons. This is because it was (maybe still is?) my father’s favorite movie. For the record, both Ghostbusters and Empire were recorded from television (including commercials and TV censorship/edits), making The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai the only motion picture deemed important enough to actually purchase. It might seem unusual in the day and age of DVD/Blu-ray/4K UHD collections, digital streaming, and thousands of cable television channels, but there was a time when my household owned only three VHS cassettes – Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters (1984), Irvin Kershner’s The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. Richter’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) is one of the most important movies in my development as a film fan. Still, sometimes we’ve all got to feed our inner hypocrite, so let me tell you about why W. Bild:īlu-Ray discar fungerar endast i Blu-Ray spelareĭenna Blu-Ray fungerar endast i en spelare som kan spela region A.‘80s and ‘90s nostalgia has grown into a billion dollar industry over the last decade, to the point that I’ve grown suspicious of any critical discussion revolving around it. ![]() Led by the deranged dictator Lord John Whorfin (John Lithgow), the Lectroids steal the Overthruster with the intent of using it to return to their home of Planet 10 "real soon!" But no matter where you go, there Buckaroo Banzai is ready to battle an interdimensional menace that could spell doom for the human race.įeaturing Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, and Clancy Brown, The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai is a cleverly crazed cult classic as only the 80s could deliver. But after his successful test of the Oscillation Overthruster a device that allows him to travel through solid matter he unleashes the threat of "evil, pure and simple from the 8th Dimension" the alien Red Lectroids. With the help of his uniquely qualified team, The Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroo is ready to save the world on a moment's notice. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller, RoboCop) is a true 80s renaissance man. The film is only on the Blu-ray disc of this Blu-ray/DVD set.
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