Bekkah:

I really wanted to like this. I like weird shit and I like the 80s and I like space stuff. But this was just not my pour of gin. I really couldn’t get into like… any of it. I felt like the movie had a prequel that I missed and without it, it just made no sense. Maybe being high would have helped? I have no idea. But despite Jeff’s unexplained-yet-still-amazing cowboy getup (he’s a surgeon?!), I don’t think this one is going in my winners pile.

Danya:

I tried to take notes during this movie and just…couldn’t? The totality of my notes: “aliens in the mountains…and also outer space?…where ever you go there you are… Ive been ionized but Im ok now…Yay, New Jersey!” I can’t make sense of them either, yet I think they reflect the zeitgeist of this ridiculous movie about a hero we don’t quite understand, fighting aliens who are in the midst of a race war? I do appreciate that the dark skinned aliens are clearly the actual heroes here. Jon Lithgow is a national treasure. Jeff wears a cowboy hat and fuzzy chaps for no reason that I could discern. This movie would have been greatly improved by wine. Or frankly, anything.

3/10 Goldblums

Buckaroo Banzai at IMDB

Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.

Director: W.D. Richter

Writer: Earl Mac Rauch

Stars: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin