The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984

Vincent Canby, New York Times: Buckaroo Banzai may well turn out to be a pilot film for other theatrical features, though this one would be hard to top for pure, nutty fun. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing. Read more

Variety: It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own. Read more