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Review: Buckaroo Banzai Dot Dot Dot

My Netflix review of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (I thought it was funny.. my review, not the movie)...

Three letters can sum up my review of this movie: WTF?!?! Buckaroo is all over the place, he's a neurosurgeon, he's a physicist, he's a secret agent, he's a musician... Woah, hold on! He moves so quickly from one job/skill/hobby to the next, we don't have time to understand any one of them. The plot is the same way. It's as if 20 writers with 20 different scripts were all running down a corridor and crashed into each other, spilling their respective scripts onto the floor in a jumbled mess. Rather than try to sort them out, they scooped them up into a big pile and called it Buckaroo Banzai. Nevermind that some pages were missing or torn or upside-down. I feel like there's a missing previous film I needed to see first, in order to make sense of this one. Even with all the funny nicknames and one-liners in the world, Buckaroo Banzai is confusing at best.