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Buckaroo springs into action along with his Hong Kong Cavaliers (Jeff Goldblum, Pepe Serna, Clancy Brown, Lewis Smith) to rescue the lady fair, save the Earth, and sing soulful ballads to suicidal groupies.īeginning with Buckaroo's mixed parentage and proceeding through the arrival of good "black" aliens ("Lectroids") that resemble Rastafarians and have as their first Earth contact a pair of redneck poachers, Adventures shows itself to be unusually sensitive-particularly for an Eighties film-to racial issues. While attempting to pinch the doodad, they also abduct Penny Priddy (Ellen Barkin), Buckaroo's dead wife's identical twin.

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After a successful trial run of the device comes to the attention of mad Lord Whorfin (John Lithgow), the villain attaches his tongue to electrodes, escapes from his mental ward while uttering a few classic bon mots ("Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"), and joins up with a team of evil aliens (each named "John" and played by Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, and Dan Hedaya) intent on stealing the Overthruster so that they might rescue comrades trapped in the 8 th Dimension. What I'm trying to say is that the film is holding my brain hostage, and I would like it back.īuckaroo (Peter Weller) is a rock star, physicist, comic-book superhero, brain surgeon, cult figure, and Eastern aesthete-the product of an interracial union between two brilliant scientists and the discoverer of the Oscillation Overthruster (shades of Back to the Future), which facilitates the travel between ours and the 8th Dimension. Adventures reveals itself as a commentary on racism, an exploration of Communism in the Reagan era, a surprisingly influential genre piece, and a sly statement on early-Eighties excess and malaise. That moment of clarity occurs somewhere in the middle of the fourth viewing, and while I can't necessarily guarantee that the trial is worth it for everyone, it was for me. Richter's film, its Gordian plot begins to unravel, its tangled web unweaves, and it becomes clear that the most disturbing thing about this legendarily convoluted camp masterpiece is that it makes perfect sense. Once you're drawn into the deadly serious heart askew of W.D.

Michael Madsen was offered the part of Perfect Tommy, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with The Natural.Starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblumīy Walter Chaw It isn't so much that The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8 th Dimension (henceforth Adventures) is hard to follow, it's that it's hard to assimilate.

Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton were considered for the lead.

Throw It In: John Bigbooté flipping off Lizardo was an improvisation by Christopher Lloyd.

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When the scene raised no objections, the creators knew the censors had given up and they were free to be as goofy as they pleased. New Jersey asks "why is there a watermelon there?" to which Reno replies "I'll tell you later." (He never does.) This meaningless scene is an un-detected decoy that the writers and directors put in to check whether the frustrated executives, who had been trying in vain to steer the film away from the far-silly end of the Sliding Scale Of Silliness Vs Seriousness, were still paying attention. Testing the Editors: The scene in which Reno and New Jersey, while traversing the Banzai compound, pass a piece of industrial equipment with a watermelon lodged in it.

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Kevin Smith has mentioned in the press a number of times over 2016 of his desire to develop and produce a new Banzai TV series.The script for the pilot can be found here.

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A pilot for a potential TV series in the '90s also looked pretty awesome.A sequel tag, in the style of the James Bond films, for Buckaroo Banzai Against The World Crime League, was placed at the end of the film, but the sequel never materialized.Stillborn Franchise: A continuation of the Banzai character has been teased a few times, but has never came to pass:.The film's box office woes didn't help, either. It also led to the video going out of print for nearly a decade and delayed its DVD release until 2002 (said DVD was nearly a Vanilla Edition until someone at MGM who'd worked on the film before caught wind of this and contacted the director ). Screwed by the Lawyers: The sequel was allegedly blocked by the rights holder for fear that the associated paperwork might uncover his creative bookkeeping.

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BattleTech had a "Team Banzai" mercenary unit that was basically Buckaroo Banzai with the serial numbers scratched (not even fully filed) off, including the watermelon.