Actually it came out in September 1988. Its main competition included Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Hot to Trot, and Moon Over Parador. It certainly edges those out.
I love(d) this movie. I’ve probably seen it 10 or 20 times over the years. Who can forget the Angelyne or Cause I’m a Blonde scenes.
I’m thinking I was introduced to it on USA’s UP all night, but it wasn’t nearly cheesy enough for that. It was actually a very good movie.
Don’t anybody listen to Hail Ants ever on any topic.
Don’t listen to PSXer either.
There was Julie Brown and there was Downtown Julie Brown.
Julie Brown from Earth Girls Are Easy would sometimes refer to Downtown Julie Brown as “Evil Julie Brown”.
I’m going to rewatch the musical sequence tonight, but I have always heard the lyric as
I’m a blonde
B-L-O-N-D
I’m a blonde
Don’t you wish you were me?
And I had always taken that to be part of the joke- that she was spelling it incorrectly.
The Wiki page for Goddess in Progress (the original release of the song) lists it as “'Cause I’m A Blond”.
The Allmusic.com page for Goddess in Progress lists it as “'Cause I’m A Blonde”.
Both the Wiki page and the Allmusic page for the soundtrack for Earth Girls are Easy list it as “'Cause I’m A Blonde”.
Here’s an image of the track listing for Goddess in Progress showing it listed as “'Cause I’m A Blond”.
I’m giving more weight to this cite since it’s the original release of the song.
So, it seems it’s been credited inconsistently.
Personally, I think “Blond” makes more sense in keeping with the running “Dumb Blonde” joke. And my hearing of the lyric has always been B-L-O-N-D. I’ll relisten tonight though.
Okay…THREE Geena Davis-Jeff Goldblum movies.
I saw Buckaroo Bonzai just a couple of weekends ago. It totally holds up – which is to say, it makes exactly as much sense, and is exactly as much fun to watch now as it was then.
And I’ll see your Geena Davis and raise you anEllen Barkin!
Geena Davis is about as miscast as a valley girl as Nicholas Cage was miscast as a punk in “Valley Girl”.
EGAE is okay as entertainment. But it's hardly a GOAT filmHow was Nick Cage miscast in Valley Girl? That was practically his first role. He was fine. And really he’s more ‘outcast doofus trying a bit too hard’ than he is ‘a punk’.
Of which…trust me…there were plenty of back then.
Earth Girls Are Easy was a pretty good flick, but it’s no Amazon Women on the Moon.
It’s a guilty pleasure.
I just rewatched it and she definitely never includes the “e”.
There are three times in the song when she spells it.
The first is:
I’m a blonde
B-L-O-N-D
second time it’s:
I’m a blonde
B-L-A-N-D
third time it’s:
I’m a blonde
B-L-…I don’t know!
As for how the song is officially titled, in my previous post I showed that it’s been inconsistent. Still, since it’s spelled “Blond” on the album artwork for Goddess in Progress (as cited above), which was the original official release, I’m inclined to go with that.
Wikipedia lied to me! That’s annoying, wide release is what matters. There’s probably a lot of misleading details like that on there.
Nah, even Wikipedia says:
September 8, 1988 (Toronto International Film Festival)
May 12, 1989 (U.S.)
That’s where I got my info for the OP. I just figured IMDB was a better cite if I was going to call you wrong.
We now return you to Amazon Women of the Moon. There will be no further interruptions.
Not sure if you’re serious about the ‘making sense’ part, but Buckaroo Banzai made perfect sense. It’s a great example of a really high-brow script packaged to look like a low-brow goofball movie (that is, if you don’t bother paying attention). It’s the kind of movie that deserves (and demands really) multiple viewings because the first time you watch it it’s as though you’re watching Part 3 of a six part series that didn’t bother making parts 1 and 2! (I actually think they talked about making a sequel but Peter Weller was busy).
And it is so not even in the same league (or universe) as a film like Earth Girls.
Tell us something high-brow about this movie.
Nailed it.
It was too goofy to score as hip and too half-assed at being cool.
But I still wanna know what that goddamned watermelon was doing there.
Y’know, this cries out for a high-end remake. With Charlie Hunnam as one of the troupe. 
Don’t you mean Nude on the Moon?
Is it a comedy? Well, watch the trailer and I guarantee you’ll be laughing.
Ha! I’ve never heard of that one, but it sure sounds like an inspiration for the film-within-a-film AWotM.
I love the imdb goofs for that. You mean, someone actually paid attention to the film? And yet, there doesn’t seem to be any goofs for twinkling stars on the moon, or the fact that one can actually be Nude on the Moon! But tan lines - they caught that one!
I got it from here, where no such clarification was made.