The definition of a wacky film (according to me):
A movie that takes place in the real world, except it’s wacky.
These three fit that bill and ted:
We need more adjectives!
I’ve already brought this movie up quite recently, but I can’t get it out of my head (much like the Red Lectroid in Dr. Lizardo’s head!)… To break it down, Buckeroo Banzai is “a modern-day renaissance man, top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero” that starts a dimensional war when he successfully passes through a mountain. I really can’t tell you more than that. Well, I can also tell you that the ending credits scene is fantastic. But that’s truly enough!
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
This might not seem to wacky at first glance, since it’s mostly a time-travel comedy. But when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it, protagonists Bill and Ted are supposed to write a song that will save the world, only if (!) they can pass their history class. Enter time machine phone booth (calling Dr. Who) and the rest is, as they say, history.
A third film is supposedly in the works in which Bill and Ted must deal with the fact that even after the last twenty years, they still haven’t written that song!
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