Notes, Notings, and Common Refrains

Remains one of about five movies I can always put on anytime I need cheering up. It's one of those movies that creates it's own world and plays around in it for the duration of the movie, with its own mythology that we can only guess at most of.

One of the best DVD releases too (in the US at least) with commentary and informational subtitles treating the movie as a dramatisation of the real life Team Banzai and evolving the mythology along with the novelisation which adds even more bits and pieces.

My favourite bit of the movie? "What's that watermelon doing under there?"

* - The others being Big Trouble In Little China (the director of Buckaroo Banzai was one of the writers), Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers and The Italian Job.