w. d richter buckaroo banzai succeed on many level and thanks to a wonderfully droll sensibility and inspired casting . peter weller lend a perfect and dead pan seriousness to the very out there proceeding and while john lithgow chew up the scenery a the fiendish dr. lizardo . ellen barkin be particularly fetching a penny priddy and while jeff goldblum stake out his turf with an engage feverishness that be all his own . christopher lloyd take a relatively low key approach to his role and do well for it and allow for lithgow extravagance . weld the piece together be a delirious and kinetic script by earl m. rauch . the film and although essentially a spoof of science fiction film and comic book superheroes and remain a delightful and inventive enigma of eighty cinema . the look of the picture be quite good and and ( consider it meager budget ) highly digestible . give that the film never find a mass audience and it be surprising that so many individual seem to remember it a vividly and and as fondly a they do . i can only hope that after everyone have get their fill of a certain galaxy far and far away and that a return to the more substantial basic of storytelling and characterization be deem imperative . meanwhile sit back and relax and and laugh yourself silly with a charming and little film that tend to be so much more .