Tank Girl (1995)

Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

If youre looking for a laugh out loud comedy, thats like a mad max movie, this isnt your movie. Tank Girl is a fun, silly movie thats witty, and has a lot to offer. From the quirky characters to the transition from live action to comic strips, it's unlike any other movie i've seen. Tank girl is just a fun, enjoyable movie, the story isn't the best there is, but the characters make up for it.

If she has time, she will serve and protect...just kidding! Our hero tank girl is one of the final survivors on earth, and she's here to protect the water supply, and is ready to take out any slime bag man who dares to get in her way, inside or outside the tank! ( She don't need no stinkin tank!) Tank Girl is loaded with quotes, quirkiness, and tons of laughs. After all these years, it still makes me laugh, no matter what type of mood I'm in. So strap yourself in for tons of attitude, humor, and steel, and Tank Girl will not let you down!

It was a Sunday in April 1995, and that I would find this Tank Girl Movie I saw advertised. I though Tank Girl being a bad ass woman would also be sexy, as I was into that sort of thing. I had to drive about 30 miles to find a theatre that still had it, and finally I found one in another State. Obviously this being a couple weeks after Tank Girl came out, this meant the movie did not do well. I watch Tank Girl and did not realize I was watching the same Lori Petty who played "Kit" the sister of the Baseball Star in "A League Of Our Own". Despite being a badass chick who always rode a Tank, Tank Girl herself was far from sexy. The hair the, tattoos, and the way she dressed, and other things about her were just too manly to be sexy,to me. The movie also interjected Cartoons of Tank Girl throughout, that at times were sexy, but most of the time were not.The movie was really not very entertaining either and featured the typical cliché bad guys, who were, about as predictable as watching clock movement. This movie did not feature any deep thinking, or any original ideas, and was simply meant to entertain us with snappy and sometimes "Off The Wall" one liners from the Tank Girl throughout, which gets old after a while. There is also interspecies issues in the movie, and the less I think about those...the better. I was kind of falling asleep in the theatre. when I noticed that one of women in the movie was changing, that being Jet Girl played by Naomi Watts (with dark hair). At that point without giving too much away, Jet Girl goes from a mumbling, mousy under-confident, and quite unattractive, glasses wearing woman to extremely sweet looking and pretty and at that very same moment...shockingly sadistic and brutal. This contrasting change-over that indicates the prettier, the more brutal, was very shocking and for me super sexy!Jet Girl's changeover is the one thing, I will always remember about this movie.

Rachel Talalay​ 's Tank Girl is a supremely underrated piece of punk-ish post apocalyptic sass that I love to revisit again and again. It soars on the same hyperactive plane as Saturday morning cartoons, but with a delicious R-rated bite, and a spunky, out of this world lead performance from Lori Petty. It captures the breakneck pace of the comic it's based on, and indeed moves along at the speed of a hummingbird on Ritalin, rarely pausing for air. The manic colours pop off the screen, the performances leap out at you like delirious mascots on a cereal box, and the vibe is go, go go for 90 glorious minutes straight, with a thumping soundtrack to keep the energy up. Lori Petty is a sexy, ADD addled wonder as the titular heroine, a desert dwelling, adorable wiseass who finds her compound and safe haven overrun with goons of the monstrous 'Water & Power' corporation, run by the sadistic megalomaniac Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell). McDowell is no stranger to playing evil bigwig sons of bitches, and this one is the goddamn prototype. He leers, recites poetry, walks barefoot on broken glass with an sweetly angelic grin, and terrorizes basically everything that moves in a perfect performance of untold, ghoulish madness. Tank Girl finds herself at odds with the corporation, and swept up in a revolt against them, aided by shy, bi curious Jet Girl (Naomi Watts, who reportedly has bad mouthed this flick in interviews these days, now that she has a high horse to sit on. Don't listen to a word). She also finds allies in mysterious desert dwellin creatures who, get this, turn out to be genetic hybrids between humans and kangaroos, bred for war. The practical effects are wondrous, letting the actors shine through the masks. Jeff Kober is a sheepish joy as the dumb one, Booga. Ice T dials up the crankiness, and third who is the reincarnation of Jack Kerouac. There's a rollicking Cole Porter musical number, no end of incredible visuals, an Iggy Pop cameo, and a constant vibe of silly fun keeping this one alive. It's like a shot of adrenaline in a technicolor juice box, and is not to be missed.