![]() If I recount this plot, I’m only giving it the attention it so clearly craves. This movie is like a naughty schoolboy who sprays graffiti across the front of the school solely so that the very serious principal has to call his parents into his office to tell them in a very serious voice that their son sprayed the world TITTYBOLLOCKS across the façade. I’m almost loathe to recap the plot because that means being the butt of a joke. Or possibly a “watch under the influence of hallucinogens and then found a religion” movie. It’s a “crack open a few beers with some rowdy friends” movie. It’s not a “watch at home alone on a cloudy afternoon” movie. ![]() And I have to confess, my first watch through I was very conscious of what I like to call “The Rocky Horror” effect, the sensation that you would really be enjoying the movie you are watching if you weren’t alone and stone cold sober. You are either in on the joke, or you aren’t. This is a CULT film, engineered to be so from the atoms making up the film stock upward. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8 th Dimension is what happens when a lot of very smart, very talented people decide to take twenty million dollars of someone else’s money and have as much fun as it is possible to have legally. ![]() During the “Making of” there’s a moment where director WD Richter is asked what the movie is about and responds with a deep sigh and a muttered “Oh God…” As a general rule, I don’t watch the “Making Of” features of the movies I review, because:Ī) The movie should be able to stand alone as a discrete work without additional media required to appreciate it.īut after… experiencing the subject of this review, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8 th Dimension, I felt that I might need to read the manual.
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