There are aliens. In tables. Literally in the tables. It's the 8th Dimension!

I clicked on the trailer for this 1984 gem and it watched like a Village People music video. Also Jeff Goldblum. How could I resist?

First, this movie is complex. Wikipedia helped me follow along with what was happening.

To begin, we have Buckaroo Banzai. He is played by Peter Weller and apparently has a wicked amount of skills, including but not limited to being a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and a musician in the band Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers.

Buckaroo likes lollipops and says things like "Oh the deuce you say." Which is a great phrase I am totally going to make hip again. Or for the first time.

The movie opens with Buckaroo driving his "jet car" which looks like a bulky Delorian combined with a trash truck through a mountain. He drove it so fast (on the Bonneville Salt Flats) that he broke the sound barrier. On the way through he sees aliens. Because apparently aliens are inside of everything. Including tables. They are trapped in the 8th Dimension.

Not all of these aliens are trapped in objects. These aliens are the Red Lectroids from Planet Ten that came to earth and are out to destroy. But wait there are Black Lectroids from the Planet Ten which come in peace and are out to get the Red Lectroids. I LOVE that the black characters are the good ones!

Fun Fact the Red Lectroids came to Earth in 1938 but Orson Welles covered it up and said it was a radio show. Hah!

Flash forward to a scene in a club with the band playing. Everyone is rocking out including Buck & his band in typical 80's style and Buckaroo realizes that Ellen Barkin is crying. So he sings to her. Thats sweet. Till she tries to shoot either him or herself, but hits the ceiling instead. Not sweet.

They start hanging out. Turns out she is the long lost twin sister of his late wife. Because that would happen. Totes believable.

Enter a new character, John Lithgow who plays a mad scientist type with a terrible Italian accent. He believes this aliens inside everything business because he is a Red Lectroid in the body of John Lithgow. Believable.  He is inpatient at a psychiatric hospital, and he breaks out.

We don't see him for a while, but you know who we do see? Jeff Goldblum. Who is from New Jersey in this movie but dresses like he is on the 1970's version of Hee Haw.

The special effects in this movie are in the $10-20 budget. Including special glasses to see aliens that are basically like bubble wrap on their faces.

Jeff Goldblum is a scientist who discovers that the Red Lectroids give off a bacteria that results in electric brainwashing. Our version of this now is Fox News.

John Lithgow then kidnaps Ellen Barkin and his associates pour honey and ants on her. Super weird and creepy. Like who came up with this?

Don't worry, Buckaroo and his Village People band come to the rescue. They save Ellen and the world in the process. Nicely done there Bucky.

The credits end with an announcement of the sequel "Buckaroo Banzai Against The World Crime League" which it turns out was never made. Shocker.

Why should you watch this movie? Because it is a campy sci-fi movie with some pretty awesome phrases that should totally make a comeback.

Why shouldn't you watch this movie? Cause it is pretty bad.