The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 123movies

Watch: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 123movies, Full Movie Online – Brain surgeon, rock musician, adventurer Buckaroo Banzai is a modern renaissance man and has made scientific history. He perfected the Oscillation Overthruster, which allows him to travel through solid matter by using the eighth dimension. But when his sworn enemy Dr. Emilio Lizardo devises a plot to steal the device and bring an evil army back to destroy Earth, Buckaroo goes cranium to cranium with the madman in a battle that could spell doom for the universe. Along with his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroo must stop the evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer our dimension. He is helped by Penny Pretty, the long-lost twin sister of his late wife, and some good extra-dimensional beings who look and talk like they are from Jamaica..
Plot: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 26,781
	66% | RottenTomatoes
	70/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 310 Popularity: 13.4 | TMDB

Reviews:

Laugh While (If) You Can, Monkey Boy!
“So what? Big deal.”- A Lectroid commander in THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI.

Greetings honorary members of the Hong Kong Cavaliers and to all you neutral observers and detractors as well. Hoping to clarify the mystery and purpose of this 1984 docudrama, I have scoured all available data (including movie reviews), scrutinized the musings of the film’s director via the DVD’s special features, and held extensive conferences with official representatives of the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information. I hasten to point out that my findings are inconclusive and that many questions remain.

The film is (negatively) a rambling, disjointed pastiche of pseudo-hip, sci-fi/comic book inspired shenanigans that (positively) manages to generate inordinate amounts of charm and wonder through its fortuitous collusion of eccentric story line (battling aliens; a deeply depressed damsel-in-distress, (Penny Priddy); the actual Hong Kong Cavaliers honing their rock and roll chops; Buckaroo himself, pushing his new jet car- with the incredible Oscillation Overthruster -through the forbidding regions of the 8th dimension) and the glowing charisma of the actors at play: John Lithgow’s Dr. Lizardo is hilarious and ingenious. W.D. Richter’s nerdy persona obscures his inability to fashion Earl Mac Rauch’s free-wheeling screenplay into a coherent whole. Still, the many facets of the story remain intriguing and Michael Boddicker’s synthesized music is majestic and buoyant.

However, the questions persist. What did happen at Grover’s Mill in October of 1938? Was Orson Welles part of an invasion plot that involved mass hypnosis? Are there extraterrestrial biological entities living among us? Documentation outlining an thorough governmental inquiry into these matters has reached this commentator. A report by the investigators, special agents Mulder and Scully, shall be made available to the public in due course. A final note: a page, supposedly torn from Welles’ personal diary and written in a shaky, nearly illegible hand, carried the following, ominous message: keep watching the skies!

“Monkey Boy” just isn’t all that funny
Despite raving reviews and ardent fans insulting the intelligence of those who don’t acclaim this as an undying classic… seriously, it’s just not that great.

Weird? Yes. Unusual? Campy? Nutso? Yes on all counts. But major chunks of plot are evidently left to the telepathic abilities of the audience, and performances are either wooden or seriously over-the-top. John Lithgow is the saving grace of this film, and his role is totally insane.

From a cinematic and production viewpoint, this is not top-shelf. From a story line viewpoint, it’s silly. Not that there’s anything wrong with silly… if it’s good silly. But this is camp that intends to be camp and fails. It’s humor that sometimes kinda works but usually doesn’t. It has one truly memorable line… and even in that “No matter where you go, there you are” just isn’t all that funny. I’m sure some folks find it hysterical. Hey, to each his own, monkey boy.

There are many, many viewers who consider themselves some sort of elite group because they “get” this film and if you don’t agree, you’re just clueless. The truth is some people are going to love this… and a whole lot more won’t even bother writing a rewiew. I love campy films, and sci fi camp more than anything– if it’s well done. This isn’t well-done camp. The directing is disjointed and inconclusive. Overall it just sort of hits the end and… ends.

The supposed “secret references” are often fictional. (One reviewer drooled over the supposed subtle hilarity of them using bubble wrap as a prop. Ha ha.) For Easter Eggs, try Ready Player One. Truth be told, most of the supposed “hidden jokes” in this film are more viewer imagination than reality.

I really don’t know why this became a cult classic. There’s no denying that it did, nor that many people absolutely breathe this film. That doesn’t mean viewers *have* to love it… or that anyone is stupid in declaring it “not the best movie ever made”– because it really isn’t (not by a long shot).

If someone loves this film… good on ya and more power to you. That doesn’t mean that people who dislike this film are idiots. It means they demand a bit more in cinematic experience than “let’s throw stuff at the screen and see what sticks”. This *could* have been a great film. With a bit better script, a bit less cocky directing, and a bit more story this could have been an all-time great. Unfortunately it falls significantly short of that. Be a starry-eyed fanboy all one wants, this one needed a bit more polish.

Some people think a man running around in a rubber Godzilla suit is the height of movie history. Other people… not so much. Doesn’t mean that either one is wrong. It means that Buckaroo Banzai may prove to be an acquired taste… or one that is unpalatable.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director W.D. Richter
Writer Earl Mac Rauch
Actors Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin
Country United States
Awards 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (35 mm prints), 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.39 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Metrocolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 70 mm (blow-up), 35 mm