Wild Zero
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Bass Wolf, Drum Wolf, Guitar Wolf, Kwancharu Shitichai, Masashi Endô Director: Tetsuro Takeuchi Cinematographer: Motoki Kobayashi Writer: Tetsuro Takeuchi Editor: Tomoe Kubota Producer: Kaichiro Furata Producer: Katsuaki Takemoto Producer: Kazuhiko Tanaka Writer: Satoshi Takagi DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 98 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Synapse Films |
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Movie Reviews of Wild Zero
Movie Review: Fun, but still...
Summary: 2 Stars
Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi, 2000)
Imagine what would happen if you crossed the video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the wonderfully bad new wave film Get Crazy!, and an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick, then added a dash or two of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The result would look a whole lot like Wild Zero.
Takeuchi (who, according to IMDB, had never previously directed, nor had since directed, another movie) gives us a ninety-minute hero-worship session for Guitar Wolf, a band who have the distinction of having been in the Guinness Book of World Records for loudest record of all time (Jet Generation). The story revolves around Ace, a young guy who idolizes Guitar Wolf. After he saves them from a corrupt manager, Ace (Masashi Endo) and Guitar Wolf (playing himself, of course) for a kind of bond, expressed through a whistle Wolf gives to Ace to blow if he's ever in trouble and needs the band to come help him. Meanwhile, in the desert, a large meteorite has fallen to earth, and a number of people who have never met are coming together at a small gas station convenience store. (They do this so we can meet them all, and then have an excuse to follow their stories, most of which never intertwine again.) Yes, the two storylines do eventually come together; Ace meets one of the folks from the gas station, hitchhiker Tobio ([name censored... because yes, you can't say it here]), and falls instantly in love. Not a good thing to do when you're about to face... eh, I'll let you find out for yourself.
Wild Zero is an incredibly silly movie, but if you like that sort of thing, you'll get ninety minutes of enjoyment out of it. There's no portion of the flick that hasn't been done better somewhere else, but all the elements have never been juxtaposed quite like this before. And it does have a good soundtrack. **