Documentary about the film the adventures of buckaroo banzai. What follows are excerpts from the world watch one. Drifting between satire and improbable scifi adventure, the film stars peter weller as buckaroo banzai, the son of an american mother and japanese father who is a combination physicist. Emilio lizardo, the aliens try to get the overthruster back from buckaroo banzai. Part science fiction, part comedy, and part superhero film, the movie is filled to the brim with plot and terrific character actors, including.
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Adventurersurgeonrock musician buckaroo banzai and his band of men, the hong kong cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension. Yes, this film is thoughtfully full of stuff that you wont catch until youve seen it the. This page is not in any way meant to infringe upon the owners of the. Alternate opening sd, 7 min one of several sequences that actually would have. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. But the good black aliens are willing to destroy earth. Masado banzai, a brilliant japanese research physicist whose work in theoretical quantum mechanics is reported to have rattled einstein, and sandra willoughby, the daughter of the eccentric scottishborn texas mathematician edward mckay willoughby.
The information following that is from hollywood, who worked on the world watch one newsletter at the time it was made. Was big trouble in little china originally written as. Lizardo, unleashes an evil army of interdimensional aliens, buckaroo goes cranium to cranium with the. Buckaroo banzai and the hong kong cavaliers discography. Subcutaneous microphones are gonna allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.
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Oscarr nominees peter weller and john lithgow team with emmyr winners ellen barkin and christopher lloyd for a fiendishly clever, actionpacked. Starring peter weller, john lithgow, jeff goldblum, ellen barkin, and christopher lloyd, this quirky, offbeat 1984 film is a scifi comedy mishmash in the tradition of saturday afternoon film serials. Scifi parodies like these usually struggle to work, but buckaroo banzai succeeds through total devotion to its own lunacy. The adventures of buckaroo banzai across the eighth dimension or just buckaroo banzai is a cult film released in 1984, starring peter weller, john. Shifting his oscillation overthruster into warp speed, hes the first man ever to travel to the eighth dimension and come back sane. The adventures of buckaroo banzai across the 8th dimension, often shortened to buckaroo banzai, is a 1984 american science fiction film produced and directed by w.
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