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Tank Girl (Widescreen)

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4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

how do I do this justice? Only in my Fellini days did I watch films more than once. I've watched this one 5 times and I'm still laughing, still relishing the humor. It unfolds easily... but it keeps unfolding each time I watch it and hasn't grown stale. I just watched it again and it drove me here to urge you - this is the best stuff! No cliche goes unexploited. social mockery? don't even start. ... just a comic book really.
sure. Try it. Totally fun.

Ok, it's not "The Godfather" or anything. Nothing much went into the acting or such things. It's just another crappy mid-90's action movie. Or is it?

Not even close. "Tank Girl" is not about quality, it's about attitude, and Lori Petty has attitude to boot. Her constant puns and jokes could come off as annoying, like they do in the Batman movies, which have ended up aging about as well as milk, but Petty really pulls it off, with her Gwen Stefani style, dirty mouth, and a seemingly endless stream of energy.

Plot (not like it matters) is as follows: 2033, there's nothing but endless sand. There's even a shortage of water! All that's left is in the hands of a huge, evil corporation. So, as it has been and always will be, wherever there's power, there's protest. Tank girl and her friends are out to bring down the company, but a surprise attack forces Tank Girl alone to go up against all of her oppressors.

The style never ends. From the awesome soundtrack (including 2 Bjork songs, and Portishead's "Roads") to a very cool animated sequence, "Tank Girl" is sure to dazzle viewers who enjoy funny, campy, avant garde films. GO TANK GIRL!

If you're looking for the next amazing work of cinema... keep looking.. Tank GIrl is a FUN movie, that's it. I love the comics, and if you do too i'll warn you now... don't expect the movie to match the comics at all... but it is a fun movie, with lots of quotables and if you want a giggle, this will do it... people who pan it have a certain problem... no sense of humor :)

I loved this movie! Although, I must admit this probably says more about me than about the movie. Still, I am hard pressed to find anything not to like about "Tank Girl." I know people who dismissed this movie because they were familiar with the comic strip, but they also seem to dismiss just how well this movie was produced. The casting was great, the soundtrack was superb and original, and the incorporation of the comic strip with the movie seemed just right. "Tank Girl" has all the makings of a cult-classic.

Tank Girl (played convincingly by Lori Petty)is a fun grrrl action film.

Although the theme is supposed to be about human survival after a major geological/metorlogical nuclearish disaster, it pokes gender, and class relations.

A handfull of rich white men control the world's water supply with millitary force and apparently spend much of their leisure time at a girle club where all of the women (unsuprisingly) are altered to look alike) The women who ultimately engineer the saving idea are punkish (anarcha-feminists? ) who defy society expectations of what is appropriate for women.

Even though the graphic juxtapositions seem to be a cheap imitation of the comic book/reality style pioneered so well in the 1960's Batman TV series, and Ice T's inclusion in the cast, it is still a good story line.

I've seen this movie several times, and even though she is much less of a cultural compromise than Buffy (who also saves the world, but looks more conventional)Tank Girl rocks. When the movie came out, I was actually planning to streak my hair fushcia in homage to this great character.

The soundtrack (produced by Courtney Love) is also worth getting!

Hear ye, hear ye! Malcolm McDowell proves downright luscious in "Tank Girl" - when doesn't he - but the story is moderately bearable, having amusing characters and outrageous costumes. One thing I wasn't happy with was the fact that there. are. absolutely. NO extra features aside from trailers, which was extremely disappointing!!!! I know that there must be outtakes and interviews somewhere, but why they weren't included on the DVD remains a mystery worthy of Mulder and Scully.

There is just something about this movie. It ranks on my top 5 list of all time favourite movies. Lori Petty is kick [tail], wears kick[en] clothes and does the weirdest things to her hair. Her sidekick Jet is just awesome. But lemme tell ya', nothing beats the fighting Kangaroos. This movie is sci/fi-comedy, has an awesome sountrack, can be quite silly at times, and is wholly entertaining. Kick back and relax when watching this movie. Alcohol will only intensify the sensations.

I decided to give this a re write. This is a campy futuristic, Cole Porter tune,Betsey Johnson fashions,Mutated Kangroos breed to be soliders,water depletion movie. After I saw this movie I was a Lori Petty fan. This is a wild chick film. I read the reviews Ms. Petty remarked about the script "She was Tank Girl".In the future water is precious . It's your David vs Goliath type story. Where a major corporation monopolizes a precious life giving substance. How the little guy goes up against a company. It's more to the story so find out for yourself.

The opening scenes, including the torturing of a defiant Tank Girl by evil Malcolm McDowell, were fantastic and great fun; then it all goes downhill FAST. It's almost as if they'd switched directors and writers after a half hour, when the film crests creatively: then Tank Girl inexplicably starts performing onstage; and from this point on TANK GIRL's a loser. The film just plain limped home.The writers shot their creative wad on the opening scenes, then left town; whoever took over the helm played up the campy side in the lamest, most unimaginative way. It never recovered. A major disappointment. And I liked Lori Petty as TG too; it just went NOWHERE!

As a DVD, it is lacking. If ever a movie begged to be "revealed" it is "Tank Girl". How someone ever got the budget to make this quirky movie is beyond me. A great sales job! The lack of content knock this down a star.

As a film, I give it 4 stars. There are some visible flaws in production value (dispite the enormous "tongue-in-cheek" factor) That sort of cheapen the film. One prime example is the "ripper" claws, used to sever limb from body, flopping around like rubber... ...claws in closeups. But that's picky stuff. The animation sequences, mostly used to speed up the explanation of extranious details, are actually top notch and enhance the let-it-fly attitude of the movie. Hard core Sci-fi/Comic fans don't give this film much due (at least the ones I know). I told them I had "Tank Girl" and they just groaned. So I guess renting is in order if you have not seen this yet. Lori Petty is absolutely spastic. I can't imagine everything she did was in the script! This is Ice-T's acting debut... ...as a Kangaroo!! He does a passable job. Here's a few "hints" for those without a clue:

-I bought this movie in the Comedy section at [...]!
-Dispite it's zany, spastic attitude, Tank Girl is good Sci-fi.
-The first time I watched the DVD, I was totally entertained.
-Don't expect anything to make allot of sense. This is spastic comedy in the tradition of "the Monkeys" (yea, the TV show!!).
-Dispite this, there is actually a cool, simple story with emotional attachment to the characters.
-Special effects are pretty slick.
-If you know this film, kind of like it, but aren't sure you want to own it, you can get it new for cheap.
-Don't expect realistic machinery. Paint often changes vehicles structural makeup in this film (I.E., long wings become short and move down, and then back up again!!)
-If you can't suspend reason for 90 minutes, don't bother.