Once it was released to home video, however, it has since developed a cult following.īrilliant scientist Buckaroo Banzai is a neurosurgeon, physicist, music star, spiritual guru, commando squad leader, globetrotting adventurer, and geopolitical consultant who fights hostile aliens, performs rock and roll (on multiple instruments, yet!), test drives interdimensional experimental vehicles, advises world leaders on how to prevent nuclear war, and studies the unknown. Jamie Lee Curtis also appears as Buckaroo's mother in an opening sequence that was cut from the film, but has since been included in the film's more recent home video releases.ĭespite this rather auspicious listing of A and high B list actors, the movie was not well received in theaters.Yakov Smirnoff as the National Security Advisor.It boasts some names that were quite famous in the 1980s and remain well known now: Richter that is one part B-Movie, one part Action-Adventure, one part comedy, and one part political satire. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension is a 1984 film written by Earl Mac Rauch and directed by W.D.
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