In case you weren't sure, or time has clouded your memory, Buckaroo Banzai is not a very good movie. It's a tossup which is worse, the music or the acting (the acting of the good guys anyway). The story is absurd, but it's supposed to be, so that's fine. Overall the movie is passably entertaining, and that's pretty much thanks to the bad guys, especially John Lithgow's mad professor/power-mad alien overlord. He comes up with a lot of weird mannerisms and physical tics for his character that are good fun, and he's backed up by some good bumbling-alien-baddie work from Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schievelli, and Dan Hedaya. One of the things I like best about their alien renditions is you can somehow tell who is who even when they're in crazy alien makeup; something in the posture and goofy mannerisms each uses. The other awesome thing about this movie is the names. I know it's sophomoric to laugh at names like John Bigboote, John Smallberries, and (my pythonesque favorite), John Manyjars, but if you didn't want sophomoric, you wouldn't be watching Buckaroo Banzai in the first place. So uh yeah. I'm not going to tell you to see it, but I'm not going to tell you not to see it either.