![]() ![]() Perhaps the best place to start is to look at its hero, the one and only Buckaroo Banzai himself. Even the most basic, no-frills explanation of it will send many heads reeling, either out of excitement or confusion. ![]() Of course, that is easier said than done because, as anyone who has seen it can attest, it's not exactly the kind of movie that can be summed up in a sentence or two. Even more happily, it gives me a chance to sit down and once and for all explain why I love this film so much. Happily, it is now making its long-awaited Blu-ray debut in a package from Shout! Factory that includes all the bells and whistles that members of its ever-widening cult could possibly ask for. Oh sure, I've proclaimed it as a favorite many times and have made reference to it every now and then-I even gave “ Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens” an extra half-star for nodding to it-but I haven’t had the opportunity to properly explain my love of the film. And yet, it occurs to me that while I've been lucky enough to write at length about any number of favorites over the years, I've never had the occasion to do so for that particular film. Practically from the moment that I first saw it at the age of 13 during its very brief run at the long-defunct Golf Mill Theaters (thanks for the ride, Mom) in the fall of 1984, “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension” has been my all-time favorite movie.
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