Tank Girl (1995)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 21
While unconventional, Tank Girl isn't particularly clever or engaging, and none of the script's copious one-liners have any real zing.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 7
While unconventional, Tank Girl isn't particularly clever or engaging, and none of the script's copious one-liners have any real zing.
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Movie Info
Based on a popular British cult comic book, this film is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the countryside, and water is scarce. Tank Girl (Lori Petty) is a sassy punker who has her own vintage tank in tow, along with other high-tech weapons. Her mutant friends join her in bizarre battles against the
Mar 1, 1995 Wide
Apr 10, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
Cast
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Lori Petty
Rebecca Buck -
Malcolm McDowell
Kesslee -
Ice-T
T-Saint -
Naomi Watts
Jet Girl -
Don Harvey
Seargent Small -
Jeff Kober
Booga -
Reg E. Cathey
Dee Tee -
Bojesse Christopher
Town -
Scott Coffey
Donner -
Ann Cusack
Sub Girl -
Beth de Patie
Prostitute -
Doug Jones
Additional Ripper -
Clayton Landey
Guard at Front Entrance -
Charles Lucia
Captain Derouche -
Tom Noga
Foreman -
Kane Picoy
Trooper #1 -
Iggy Pop
Rat Face -
Richard Schiff
Trooper in Trench -
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Wes Veldink
Liquid Silver Dancer -
Frank Walton
Trooper in Basement -
Brian Wimmer
Richard -
Aurorah Allain
Liquid Silver Dancer -
James Hong
Che'tsai -
Jim Sullivan
Semi Driver -
John David Bland
Trooper Wayne -
Jo Farkas
Sand Hermit -
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (21) | DVD (7)
Lori Petty does her tough-talking best to breathe some life into the comic-book action, but it's not enough.
Top CriticAn aspiring cult film that would rather be cute than dangerous.
The movie version of the graphic comic book is a classic case of kitchen-sink filmmaking, in which the principals have thrown everything into the stew, hoping enough will stick to the audience.
Lori Petty does a nice job in the title role of this enjoyable 1995 feature based on the postapocalyptic SF comic book and set in the year 2033.
Generous souls may try to blame this travesty of the Deadline comic-strip on the studio execs who forced director Talalay to tone down and re-edit her cut.
Chief among its strong points is Lori Petty, a buzz-cut fashion plate in a Prozac necklace, who brings the necessary gusto to Tank Girl's flippancy.
Unfunny, often painfully boring, and so blatantly low budget and poorly constructed...
Ultimately, I had a lot more fun at this movie that I did at Batman Forever.
girl power
How well you'll tolerate this utterly unhinged quasi-feminist comic book fantasy depends on your Lori Petty threshold.
Ugh.
Unique and funny in the same time.
A lot more fun than you'd think
Annoying for readers of the comic who saw Tank Girl's 'history' being rewritten for the screen
A frenzied mess that's dull in the extreme.
I wanted to like Tank Girl, but I kept feeling that the filmmakers kept daring me not to like it, daring me to be un-hip.
She may not be to everyone's taste, but she's certainly refreshing.
In the end there are a few too many formulas and too few surprises.
Petty ruins this movie with her bad acting, inability to crack jokes, and the ability to look stupid no matter what she is doing.
Audience Reviews for Tank Girl
Yeah, this adaptation of a comic is bad, but it's never boring. The performances are over the top, the movie's got a plot that's all over the place, and there's some really odd editing and a messy script, but, the film has some killer needle drops, it's got a fun charm to it, the actors look like they had a lot of fun making this, the costumes and sets are just kitschy as all hell, and pre-fame Naomi Watts is quite nice looking.
The plot has something to do with water shortages in a post apocalyptic world with rebels going against an evil megalomaniac, but none of that really seems to matter. The punk attiiude, crazy art direction and the camp value just seem to take priority, but in the end, you could find far less interesting films to watch than this one, even though I'm sure a far more focused and competant adaptation is probably what fans really want.
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- Rebecca Buck: I'm gonna hit you so hard, you're children will be born bruised!
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Credit where its due Lori Petty did a good job as the unhinged off the wall 'Tank Girl' with her ticks and facial madness. The film suffers from lack of originality and poor visuals throughout but Petty does manage to hold it together with her seductive emo like appearance and cute one liners.
This film suffers much like 'Johnny Mnemonic' (both 1995) in the fact they both show the usual unimaginative distopian future run by evil companies (or people) with the same types of ideas. 'Tank Girl' is much more obviously comicbook orientated with in your face flashy bizarre styles, fashions and attitude but the overused apocalyptic future thing lets them both down and always comes across as cheap n tacky looking if not done right.
Plot is basic and McDowell simply isn't much of a villain. There is never much of a threat going on, nothing to engage you and nothing to treat your eyes. The 'Rippers' (mutant kangaroos) also look pretty terrible and more like something from a bad 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' sequel but I did quite like the hologram idea for McDowells's villain towards the end, nice effect surprisingly.
As said before the animated sequences are far superior to the rest of the film, maybe a reboot is in order.