The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Here's a weird movie for you. Buckaroo Banzai is a half American half Japanese average guy. He spends his days performing complex brain surgery, followed up with driving experimental rocket cars through the eighth dimension. He unwinds by playing a half dozen instuments for his band (all the members of which are equally well endowed in teh talent department) and saving the world from space invaders. There's a very odd racial undertone to this movie. There are two factions from Planet 10 (that's what the aliens call their homeworld) one are the ultraviolent white guys, the other are the peace loving rastas. The aliens emit some kind of pherimones that trick people into believing that they're seeing a normal person instead of an alien. Buckaroo gets zapped by some beam while he's talking to the president on a payphone that gives him the ability to see through the illusion and also carries with it all the komic opportunities to zap every normal person he touches (or kisses.) There doesn't really seem to be much of a point to the movie, but it was funny to watch.

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