Eye Candy #272 - "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai"

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai:  There are few movies that reek of the 1980's as strongly as "Buckaroo" does, but god bless it, I have to watch this movie at least once a year. If films could be likened to people, then "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" is not just marching to a different drummer, it's a different band. The comic book-like adventures of Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, scientist, surgeon, rock star, with his band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, and band members Perfect Tommy, Reno Nevada, and Rawhide. He faces off against the evil Dr. Lizardo (John Lithgow, in a bravura, weird performance) and his group of Red Lectroids. Throw in some stuff about the end of the world, Black Letroids (that all sound Jamaican), the Soviets, Yakov Smirnoff, and some incredibly funny dialogue, and it's an overwhelming enjoyable (if a bit odd) film. It even advertises its own never-produced sequel at the end of the film. Woodchuck sez, "Me likey".