Wasn't Buckaroo Banzai based on a comic book? I don't think it had a message, per se. I think it was an attmept to do a very dry send-up of sci-fi films. Some of the humor is very, very subtle and understated and some of it is just plain silly, which made for an odd mix and I think lost a lot of people. I didn't get it myself when I first saw it as a teenager, but later when I saw it again as an adult it seemed to fare better. Still think it has one of the best closing lines of all time: "So what. Big deal." Almost as if they filmmaker was saying to the audience "Yeah, it was just a weird story and now it's over." - Jimdoria ~@>@

• Jimdoria  ~@>@