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Summary: P-P-P-POW! Tank Grrl here to save the planet!
Review: If you're ever feeling down or having a bad day, check out Tank Girl! It's a fun movie with a whole lotta girl power! Lori Petty does a great job as the wild, sassy title role, and the other characters are cool too. This movie is very imaginative, with everything from lovesick kangaroo-men to scheming, holograph-headed villains. Tank Girl is one awesome chick, and she's here to save the world. Good can triumph over evil- P-P-P-POW!
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Summary: A cult film with a small (though dedicated) following.
Review: "Tank Girl" desperately wants to be a funny, trendy, super-hip post-apocalyptic comedy -- it's how "Mad Max" might have turned out had it been written by MTV VJs. Unfortunately, the script isn't one-tenth as witty or clever as it pretends to be, and the actors clearly know it. Underneath the bucketloads of in-your-face attitude and exploding energy that the actors infuse their performances with, there's a strong sense that they're really moving at such a frenzied pace because they can't wait to get this disastrous mess over and done with. Still, many people (well, a few people, anyway - at least as many as it took to post the positive reviews you'll read here) truly enjoyed this movie for some reason, and it's theoretically possible that you'll like it, too. Just keep in mind that Pauly Shore would have been perfectly at home playing a role in this film, whereas Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens would likely have turned it down for not being up to his usual standards.
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Summary: 100% Fun
Review: Tank Girl is one of the funnest movies of all time. Colorful characters, adorable writing, and a childish toys-and-bright-colors style gives this movie a distinctive comic book feel. Lori Petty makes this movie what it is with her strong and bubbly personality, and Malcolm McDowel plays the ultimate villain. If you're looking for a movie with energy, pick this one up. The soundtrack is also incredible, and I'm not usually a person who likes soundtracks.
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Summary: TRASH!
Review: Painfully unfunny film based on the comic strip adventures of the same name. Lori Petty puts in unconvincing and frequently irritating performance and the rest of the cast don't do much better either. The film served as a big disappointment to what was expected. The dialogue sounds dated and performances are rather disjointed making you care very little about the whole thing in the first place. Is lacking in any real sort of exciting adventure that you would expect in a film like this. The whole thing, to be quite frank, is pure trash. Forget it!
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Summary: Pure entertainment
Review: Tank Girl is, make no mistake, a campy B sci-fi. It lives up to the genre perfectly, keeping a light, humorous tone in a world so dark that it would make most of us hide under the bed. It's probably no surprise that someone like Tank Girl would survive the apocalypse.Lori Petty's character is perfectly witty, a girl who plays it large and in charge even when things are at their worst. She can kill an armed man and then answer the irritated stares of his buddies with "What?" While McDowell's character tries to break her in for a mission, she spends all her time coming up with lines to really get under his skin--and succeeds. The complaints of some accusing McDowell of hamming up the role of the villain are unfounded; he not only plays the role perfectly, but does it so well that I don't think anyone else could have done it. He's playing the stereotypical megalomaniac bad guy, yes, but on top of that he adds a touch of class and intelligence. His repartee with Tank Girl proves he's nearly a match for her wit with flippant remarks. He's a very bright guy with an ingenious solution to an ongoing problem, who's simply flummoxed by the dauntlessly rude spirit of his opponent. McDowell is brilliant enough as an actor to get all these characteristics across. Bravo. The plot gives us a nice, reasonable adventure without being overly simplistic; the campy tone prevents it from getting any more complex. The off-the-wall antics of Tank Girl bleed over at times from the character to the movie itself, which gets a bit goofy (in a good way) in parts where you'd never otherwise expect it to. In the middle of the film they break into a musical number in the silliest of venues--it might not be logical but it's a whole lot of fun. All this is carried along by a soundtrack pretty well suited to the film, arranged appropriately enough by Courtney Love. For sheer entertainment (though not a family film, if that wasn't obvious), Tank Girl is really worthwhile. The DVD is noticeably light on features, but for the price I can live with it. If you enjoy a movie that doesn't take itself seriously, Tank Girl is for you.
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Summary: One of the worst movies ever made
Review: This movie was......horrible. I cant even watch it drunk. The plot does not make sense. The make-up and costume design is absolutely atrocious. Extremely poor special effects and just a boring movie all around. Nothing worth spending your money for.
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Summary: LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!
Review: I LOVE this movie. I know it did not do well at the box office, but I wish they would make Tank Girl II! The critics are too hard on movies. Movie are meant to entertain and this one does that and more! Lori Petty was born to do this part. The story is fun, the music is great and you can watch it again and again and not get bored. WATCH IT, BUY IT!
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Summary: Great Movie NO extras
Review: The movie itself is a 5 star, the "no extras" brings the rating down for the dvd. It is fact that they taped at least another half hour to an hour of footage that is not going to make the dvd, which is sad. (they even messed up and put pictures from these scenes in the trading card set) If you can get passed that Get the DVD! Even if you are not familiar with the comic book, this is a female empowerment, "riot grrrl" movie. Tankie Fears NOTHING! If you like movies with female strong leads and a wacky sence of humor this is it! No tears for this one. This is like Boys on the side and Beaches for a younger minded audience without all that pesky death to veil your judgment. When I went to the movies I did not think Lori Petty could pull off Tank Girl, but it was a nice surprise to watch her. Petty Captured Tank Girl by the Bullocks! Naomi Watts as Jet Girl and Malcolm McDowell as Kesslee were great in it as well. Don't let the critics feed you a line of bull on this one. <b> INSTANT cult classic</B> Just because there is no HUGE life lesson in this, it should not take away from this lighthearted movie. Sometimes all you want to do is press play and enjoy, not rattle your brain. If you have the mentality to like the bands on the soundtrack (Bjork, Hole, Joan Jett, L7, Portishead, Stomp, etc.) you will LOVE this movie..... stop reading and go get it! <b>PA-PA-PA-POW!</b>
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Summary: Beautiful CULT favorite of mine.
Review: I first saw this movie when i was 16 (now 21)... and i fell in love from the very beginning. I'd never call this "quality cinema," but it is thoroughly entertaining, and quickly became one of my favorite movies. The color is breath-taking, Lori Petty is absoltuely beautiful, sexy, funny, wonderful, etc. And this is just a kick-a#$% grrrl-power movie, without the corporate cheese that tends to come in the package. It is a fantasy world that i ventured to often as a teenager... and now with a DVD version, the journey can continue. ENJOY!
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Summary: The animated scenes are the only good thing about this mess.
Review: This is a mostly live-action film with the occasional cartoon sequence that pops up here and there. The cartoon segments are entertaining to watch. The rest of the film is trash. The plot is sort of like MAD MAX meets THE ICE PIRATES: in the future, a comet collides with earth, turning the planet into a desert wasteland. However, instead of mankind breaking down into a lawless, barbarian state, something far worse happens-an evil military corporation possessing high technology, named WATER POWER, run by Malcom McDowell, manopolizes all the remaining water, thus maintaining controll over the rest of the surviving people. A resistance group, which includes Lori Petty, is attacked and wiped out by WP soldiers early on in the film. Only Petty and a little girl who was also a member of the group survive. Petty is taken to a WP prison camp, where she meets a mousey woman, Naomi Watts, another prisoner there, and later Petty steal a WP tank and she and Watts make an explosive escape, leaving McDowell badly injured and craving vengence. Later the two women meet the Rippers-humans who've had thier genes spliced with kangaroos, and the group wage war on WP while also trying to find and rescue the young girl. I'll admit, I never read the comic this is based on, so I'm in no position to argue about closely Petty protrayed her charecter to the origonal. However, I can say that her charecter really irritated me, like a woman who's trying her absolute best to act as masculine as possible, regardless of how true her preformance was to it's source material. (If that's how the comic book tank girl acted, then I'm not upset at not having read it.) This film really needed to be done all in cartoon, then it could at least be enjoyed for it's visuals. O.K., one other thing I liked about it-Naomi Watts' prefomance. I do hope to see her in future and hopefully better films. Below are my recomendations for action movies that truly protray women well: The ALIEN legacy THE TERMINATOR series DAY OF THE DEAD CHOPPING MALL* NIGHT OF THE COMET* *These films are extremly hard to find and probably best looked for at independently-run video stores.
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