The storyline seems to pickup in the middle of some comic sci-fi serial. Our hero (Peter Weller of Robo Cop) isn't like any other. He plays guitar in a rock 'n' roll band, practices brain surgery, teaches and practices physics, like traveling at hyper-speed to pass through solid rock or into the eighth dimension. The plot, from what I picked up, is his attempts to stop aliens from you know what. Seems aliens hypnotized Orson Wells into doing The War of the Worlds radio broadcast to cover up their actual landing on Earth in 1939. Every one plays it straight. Even Buckaroo's cowboy scientist pals (including Jeff Goldblum wearing a bright red cowboy outfit that must have come from Bob Hope's western comedy Fancy Pants). The aliens led by a mad scientist (John Lithgow at his scene-chewing best) are disguised as humans and are all named "John" something. They remind me of the aliens in Alien Nation. The screenplay creates a world of its own: funny, watchable, sci-fi lite.
