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Summary: Cult Classic
Review: What can I say except that this movie is a classic. A must see.
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Summary: Many Hidden Features on this DVD
Review: 1. If you select the middle Jet Car image on the first menu screen, you will be able to scroll through a selection of quotes from Doctor Banzai. 2. If you select the yellow circle in the top left corner of the first menu screen, you will be able to scroll through 36 alternate DVD menu designs. 3. If you select the Banzai Institute logo on the Banzai Institute Archive Menu screen, you will be able to scroll through two alternate DVD cover designs. 4. If you select the watermelon image on the first Deleted Scenes Menu screen, you will be taken to an article called "Food from the Skies?" which discusses why the Banzai Institute was putting watermelons in high guages. 5. If you select the BB logo on the second screen of the "Food from the Skies?" article, you will be taken to a video clip of W.D. Richter called "Why?" where he discusses watermelons and shows a recipe for Chicken in a Watermelon.
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Summary: I like cult movies.. but this?
Review: Maybe it's just me, but I just can't get into this movie. It took me a week to get though this movie 15 mins at a time, it was that bad. Some of my friends love this movie and I just can't figure out why, it's not funny, slow paced and the acting (except for John Lithcow (sp?)) is horrible. I gave this movie a second star just because I think "Laugh while you can monkey boy!", is a really funny line. Unless your a hardcore Peter Weller fan, or a fan of everything "cult" stay away from this movie.
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Summary: Remember, Wherever You Go - There You Are!
Review: What a fantstically fun film. It really has no purpose or meaning in the universe other than its own existance. It is incredibly immaginative and inventive. Coloful and and creative were the producers and director of this script. Listening to the production notes on this DVD made it that much more special. Learning from the commentary about the script, the casting, the sets and the scheduling of shooting in and around Los Angeles. The delted scenes and their background are very cool. The cast in fantastic and the performances are fun. Mixed with science and fiction and rock'n'roll - this movie gets you going. (Where? I don't know.) Jeff Goldblum is histerical in his readings of very technical dialogue and the best performance is John Lithgow as JOHN M BIGBOOTIE. Doesn't get much weirder or funnier than that! This DVD is must for every DVD collectorof Scienece Fiction films. I remember walking out of the theatre thinking that was the most refreshing film I had seen in a long time. (More recently for me it was Moulin Rouge.) I have turned so many people on to this movie after showing them that they end up quoting the film too! Belive me, you will!
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Summary: A Cult Film Best Left "Cult"
Review: I've never understood the appeal of this film, especially to a cult audience. The humor of BUCKAROO BANZAI is flat; all of the principals (and there are many, many, many talented actors associated with this flick) waste their talent in either poorly written schtick or poorly edited ... it's impossible to tell which. The special effects are dated and uninteresting, as is the story of a rock-star-brain-surgeon-scientist bent upon breaking ... ah, who cares at this point? Again, BANZAI is intended for a cult audience, and I don't think it ever had the possibility of garnering a wider appeal. If you're into cult films, give it a go. If you're not, you'd best leave this stone unturned.
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Summary: A great "special film" to share...or not.
Review: One of the strangest, most bizarre, funniest movies ever made. There's even fun to be had in hindsight looking at now-famous actors in earlier days (Jeff Goldblum in a cowboy suit?). This is also a great movie to drop obscure lines from and see if people catch them. For fun, name your pet dog "John Smallberries" and see who gets it. :)
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Summary: Essential Viewing
Review: Whether or not you're a John Lithgow fan or like Peter Weller movies, this movie is one that is a timeless classic. Although the story is bit crazy and the characters a little wacky, you help at laugh when you see Lithgow as the crazed doctor with cohorts names "John Big Bootie" and "John Small Berries". Christopher Lloyd gives a stellar performance as do the rest of the cast. Unfortunately, this movie promotes the sequel which never made it into production. An unfortunate ending to what could have made a great follow-up work.
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Summary: I WAS SO HAPPY...
Review: WHEN THIS CULT CLASSIC CAME OUT ON DVD! ITS A GREAT DVD, THE EXTRAS RULE!
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Summary: hugely underrated
Review: Surely one of the oddest films of its time, 'The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai..' could have made huge stars of its cast, spawned a plethora of sequels and spun off merchandising opportunities to make George Lucas weep.
Somehow none of these events occurred, but this doesn't stop the film from being enormously entertaining and engaging.
Watch it and wonder what could have been...
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Summary: Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!
Review: Original work - difficult to classify. Glib, violent, comedy
science fiction/fantasy action adventure? Back story perhaps
overreaches, overwhelming modest story line, which is also
littered with one liners competing for the audiences' attention.
Funny and interesting characterizations (caricatures) by the
talented cast. Also difficult to classify: the audience, which
didn't manage to sustain this franchise. I thought this film was
terrifically funny when I first saw it in the mid-eighties, but
now it seems a bit heartless.
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