Johnson (Laura Harrington), and new acquisition New Jersey (Jeff Goldblum). His support team is comprised of Reno Nevada (Pepe Serna), Rawhide (Clancy Brown), Pinky Carruthers (Billy Vera), Mrs. In addition to being a daredevil test driver, Banzai is a brilliant neurosurgeon, the leader of the band the Hong Kong Cavaliers, and the head of the Banzai Institute. Most famous among these is the appearance of a watermelon in one scene that even one of the characters questions, only to be told an explanation would be forthcoming (it wasn’t, at least not in the film, in reality the watermelon was inserted to see if the studio executives were paying attention to the dailies…they weren’t and the watermelon stayed).
The device which allowed Banzai to drive through the mountain is his oscillation overthruster, invented by Banzai and his mentor, Professor Hikita (Robert Ito).Īt this point, it should be noted that many of the things that happen in the film that may seem to be of great import, are actually non-sequitors, appearing in the film once, but never being explained or mentioned again. Attached to the bottom of the jet car is a living organism from that other world. At the last minute, he veers off course and apparently drives the Jet Car through a mountain, although we later learn that he actually phased the car into the eighth dimension, coming back to our own dimension as he appeared to exit the mountain miles off course. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension opens with Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) preparing to test drive a Jet Car across the open desert.
Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named ‘John’?” which, I imagine, is how many viewers feel about the movie.īuckaroo Banzai visits Penny Priddy in jail. A second viewing, in which the basic outline of the film is known, however, allows the viewer to fully appreciate the weirdness which interlaces every moment of the film.Īt one point in the film a thoroughly confused President Widmark (Ronald Lacey) comments, “Buckaroo, I don’t know what to say. In an article I published in World Watch One, a Buckaroo Banzai zine, earlier this year, I argued that one of the issues with the film is that it is so different from anything else, people who go in with any expectations (or even none), have a tendency to bounce off the film, wondering what it was, exactly that they had just watched. In addition, the two graphic novels have been released to follow the story of its protagonist, Buckaroo Banzai. The film did not do well in its initial box office release, but over the years it has amassed a cult following based on its subsequent releases on home video. On August 10, 1984, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension made its first appearance in theatres the United States. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension
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