The movie, called Spartan X in Japan, got a videogame tie-in of the same name courtesy of Irem. Wheels on Meals benefits from the magnificent Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao as its co-stars (Hung also directs), and aside from being an entertaining film on its own terms, deserves a footnote in history for helping to invent the fighting videogame genre. Less famous than the movies that made Jackie Chan into a global superstar– Police Story, Armor of God, Project A- Wheels on Meals is another winning cocktail of stunts, action, and broad slapstick comedy. Other details can be found sprinkled throughout Buckaroo Banzai. In retrospect, it’s also fascinating to see the ties between Buckaroo Banzai and Back to the Future, released the following year both films shared the same producer, Neil Canton, who was instrumental in picking Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in that 1985 hit.
Buckaroo Banzaishould have been the start of a series of weird adventures, but the tepid performance of this debut outing nipped all of that in the bud.Īdmittedly, Buckaroo Banzai‘s stream-of-consciousness plot and eccentric humor won’t be to everybody’s taste, but its sheer strangeness make it a great cult item.
John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher LLoyd, Clancy Brown, and Jeff Goldblum (a fellow brain surgeon who unaccountably dresses as a cowboy) all co-star. The plot of this sci-fi adventure almost defies description: it’s about Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller), the rock star, brain surgeon, martial arts expert, and all-round polymath who has to save the world from inter-dimensional beings. It’s a fun, eventful adventure that concludes with an incendiary action sequence that wouldn’t look out of place in a Die Hard sequel. or Flight Of The Navigator, Cloak & Dagger stars Henry Thomas (you know, Elliott out of E.T.) as a videogame-obsessed kid who becomes an 11-year-old spy.
An adventure film in the same family-friendly vein as D.A.R.Y.L. Our original thought was to put The Last Starfighter on this list, but Cloak & Dagger, which was initially released on the same double bill, is arguably more obscure.
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