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Weekend Review: Buckaroo Banzai

RADAR BLAZE 1: Buckaroo, the President’s on line one, calling about is everything okay with the alien space bomb and Planet Ten, or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?

BUCKAROO: Tell him yes on one and no on two.

Our weekend review of older films has long overlooked 1984’s The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension. A box-office bomb, this poker-faced pulp parody found cult success on cable and video.

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