The planned sequel, "The World Crime League", in which he would battle a Fu Manchu-type villain, went through numerous rewrites and became BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.The official synopsis is thus: Still mourning the losses of his beloved Penny Priddy and his surrogate father Professor Hikita, Buckaroo Banzai must also contend with the constant threat of attack from his immortal nemesis Hanoi Xan, ruthless leader of the World Crime League. Lithgow is supported by a bunch of comic actors who specialize in eccentrics, like Christopher Lloyd and Dan Hedaya. Weller has a bunch of similarly brilliant scientists helping him, including Jeff Goldblum (who is called "New Jersey" and dresses in a Singing Cowboy outfit), Robert Ito and the underutilized Lewis Smith. This results in the good aliens from that planet preparing to blow up the Earth and preventing that happening. When the news gets out, John Lithgow, who invented the key gizmo in 1938, and was transformed into an alien, leads a band of similarly misplaced aliens to steal the device and get home. Buckaroo, played by Peter Weller, is a surgeon-rocker who is testing a rocket car to drive through a mountain, across the Eighth Dimension. When it came out, I told people it's an updating of Doc Savage. I know it's one I can rewatch occasionally, because to me it's a fine B movie.
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His movie tanked when it came out but has earned a well-deserved niche as a cult favorite. Reviewed by boblipton 8 / 10 Spiffy Cult Film Yet it's not all that bad and the movie still entertains, so the movie obviously still has some redeeming qualities which makes this still a bit of a watchable movie.
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Further more the movie is fairly well looking, too bad inexperienced director W.D. The musical score is typically '80's like and absolutely horrible. The special effects are all decent for '80's standards but perhaps overused a bit too much. Peter Weller was a great leading man in the '80's and he shows with this movie how well he can carry a movie. John Lithgow is deliciously overacting as the movie its main villain but I just wish that he had more sequences and was made more interesting as a character. Amazing how many great actors are in this movie such as Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Clancy Brown, Ronald Lacey, Vincent Schiavelli and Dan Hedaya. The many famous actors however still provide the movie with some fun and this uplifts the movie. But other than that, there isn't really much fun present in the movie. All of the alien's their first name is John and they have names such as John Bigboote, John O'Connor and John Smallberries. The movie is only fun now really with its character's names. It's wasted potential, cause I guess that in essence Buckaroo Banzai isn't really a bad fun movie main-hero. The movie could had been fun, the movie could had been action filled but yet it all isn't. It was confusing, it was poor but above all it was odd. At one point I even stopped caring and wanting to understand what the movie was all about. The movie becomes more crazy and crazy as the movie heads toward the ending. It developed some potentially interesting characters and plot lines but for some reason as the movie progresses they don't get handled well. To be honest, the movie began well and promising. Guess the movie can best be seen as a cult-classic, for the fans of it. Perhaps of comic-book type of movies from the '80's, or adventurous serials from the '30's/40's? But then again there's the problem that the movie is not really funny and on top of that, also not so very well made. It seems like its a spoof, of what, I do not know however. Not too sure what to think about this movie. Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 5 / 10 Odd title, odd movie. 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.-Greg Bole 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. 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.
He perfected the Oscillation Overthruster, which allows him to travel through solid matter by using the eighth dimension. Brain surgeon, rock musician, adventurer Buckaroo Banzai is a modern renaissance man and has made scientific history.
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