Buck Douglas' Alien Quest (1998 film)

Do not be confused with the 2018 Japanese CGI anime or the 2019 Japanese CGI anime film of the same name Production Companies: Bandai Visual, Emotion, Production I.G, Crescent

Distribution Companies: Bandai Visual, Alliance Atlantis, Crescent

Release Date: 14 November 1998 (Japan and UK), 20 November 1998 (Canada and US)

Countries: Japan, Canada, UK

Language: English

MPAA Rating: PG for some scary scenes, thematic elements, and rude humor-some involving the protagonist and/or the UFOs

Buck Douglas’ Alien Quest is a live-action/computer-animated Japanese-Canadian-British drama sci-fi comedy film that was produced by Bandai Visual, Emotion, Crescent, and Production I.G. It is based on the fictional villainous protagonist character “Buck Douglas”. This film got released on 14 November 1998 in Japan and the UK while it got released on 20 November 1998 in Canada and the US.

Plot

An alien hunter named Buck Douglas plans to host a TV show about aliens and how they exist. Meanwhile, a swarm of UFOs invade the fictional British city of Toronto and it is up to Buck Douglas to save the day.

References to Popular Culture

There are many references to the popular Japanese anime “Doraemon” in this film. In one famous scene, Buck Douglas puts a Doraemon VHS on his TV and watches it (although, you can only see the FBI warning, the Emotion logo, a fragment of the Japanese teaser trailer for Pokemon: The First Movie, and some clips of the anime). Then, Buck Douglas wonders what it’ll be like if he was on TV. He also owns a cuckoo clock, and what comes out of it is a toy model of Gian choking and bonking a crying and begging Nobita.