It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.
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Variety,
5 Jun 2007
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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.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
16 Aug 2007
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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.