Tank Girl
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Don Harvey, Ice-T, Jeff Kober, Lori Petty, Naomi Watts Brand: PETTY,LORI DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 104 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-04-10 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Tank Girl
Movie Review: Crap
Summary: 1 Stars
Title says it all.
First off, I'm a big Tank Girl fan, I know the comic's ADD-style lunatic writing, and I knew from the beginning not to expect some life-changing epiphany to arise from my viewing this movie. Unfortunately, despite my expectations being meager at best, I was still let down. For one thing, there's a coherent (muddled, but coherent) relatively straightforward storyline, something that NEVER happened in the comics.
For another thing, the Tank Girl I knew an loved was a cranky, amoral psychopath (British/Australian). She didn't have a concious, she killed people that annoyed her and indulged in all manner of demented fun. Meanwhile, Movie Tank Girl sounds like she fell out of the Upper East Side, a gun-toting tease with a heart of gold that makes one-liners borrowed straight from TMNT.
The movie takes itself too seriously to capture the outrageous fun of the comic (the violence and language is incredibly tepid), and instead tries to disguise directionless writing as camp.
The art of Jamie Hewlitt is present throughout various points in the film and is (as always) stunning (they often take the place of sets or transition scenes as there obviously wasn't money in the budget for them), but seems out of place. The bizarre world inside Jamie Hewlitt's head is poorly realized on the live-action sequences and makes the quick cuts from comic art to live action jarring. The animation sequences are nicely done and kind of make me wonder why they didn't just make the whole movie animated?
I didn't enjoy Tank Girl at all, I ended up just fast forwarding through 2/3s of the movie because I just couldn't take it anymore. I took it out of the library...which I would reccommend for anyone who shows any interest in viewing it (it's barely worth rental money).
Pros:
-Hewlitt's art is awesome
-Animation sequences are fun and well-done
-Ice-T dressed up as a kangaroo
Cons:
-Everything else.
If you do end up getting it and watching it, I would reccommend, beforehand, either getting stoned or consuming a large amount of alcohol. I did neither, and I think if I had I would've enjoyed it more.