A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon.

Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing.

It violates every rule of storytelling and narrative structure in creating a self-contained world of its own.

The vast, delirious joke of W.D. Richter’s sci-fi comedy... is that it plays like the 189th issue of a comic book that actually has no prior issues.