The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Writer: Earl Mac Rauch
Director: W. D. Richter
Release: August 10, 1984
Tagline(s): Beings from Another Dimension have invaded your world.
You can’t see them…but they can see you.
Your only hope is Buckaroo Banzai.
Expect the unexpected. He does.
Producer(s): Neil Canton, W. D. Richter
Associate-Producer: Dennis Jones
Executive Producer: Sidney Beckerman
Stars/Actors: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert
Ito, Pepe Serna, Ronald Lacey, Yakov Smirnoff
Music by: Michael Boddicker
Production Company: Sherwood Productions
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Adventure, Comedy
ID: tt0086856
Rating: PG
Runtime: 103 minutes
Synopsis:Â 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.
Declassified by Mrs. Agent Palmer: The Adventure I Didn’t Know I Needed
Quotes and Lines
Mission Control: Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?
Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him yes on one and no on two.
Mission Control: Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia… or number 2?
Lord John Whorfin: History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Buckaroo Banzai: Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Lord John Whorfin: Where are we going?
The Red Lectroids: Planet Ten!
Lord John Whorfin: When?
The Red Lectroids: Real soon!
Buckaroo Banzai: You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same. No, no, no, don’t tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to.
Perfect Tommy: Pictures don’t lie.
Reno: The hell they don’t. I met my first wife that way.
Lord John Whorfin: May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.
Lord John Whorfin: Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy.
Orderly: Who are you today, Doc? Einstein?
Lord John Whorfin: Lord John Whorfin. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s to be mistaken for somebody else.
Ed: President’s calling, Buckaroo.
Buckaroo Banzai: The president of what?
Ed: The President of The United States.
Buckaroo Banzai: Oh.
Lord John Whorfin: Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.
Buckaroo Banzai: You ever thought about joining me full time?
New Jersey: Whatya mean, you serious, do you have an opening?
Buckaroo Banzai: Uh huh. Can you sing?
New Jersey: A little, yeh, I can dance.
Yoyodyne intercom announcement: The only joy is the joy of duty. Work… work… work.
John Parker: I’m a diplomat! I failed flight school!
General Catburd: The man’s been through solid matter, for crying out loud. Who knows what’s happened to his brain? Maybe it’s scrambled his molecules. All I’m saying is, Mr. President, let’s not panic.