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Tank Girl (1995)

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Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:13

Rotten:18

Average Rating:4.9/10

Consensus: While unconventional, Tank Girl isn't particularly clever or engaging, and none of the script's copious one-liners have any real zing.

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: In the year 2033, the world's water supply is controlled by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), a maniacal dictator who presides over the Water & Power company. Tank Girl (Lori Petty), a tough punk water... In the year 2033, the world's water supply is controlled by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), a maniacal dictator who presides over the Water & Power company. Tank Girl (Lori Petty), a tough punk water poacher, struggles alongside her comrades to deliver the valuable resource to parched persons around the globe. But when Tank Girl is captured by Kesslee, he makes her work as one of his human automatons in the W & P mines. Her fate goes from bad to worse when Kesslee makes her a proposition: She can go free if she agrees to exterminate the ravenous Rippers--half-man, half-kangaroo beasts. But before she's forced to answer, along comes Jet Girl (Naomi Watts), who rescues Tank Girl from Kesslee's clutches. Now these two spunky chicks will do whatever it takes to destroy Kesslee and hydrate the desert planet. The film is based on the comic book by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. [More]

Starring: Lori Petty, Ice-T, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts

Starring: Lori Petty, Ice-T, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts, Iggy Pop, Ann Magnuson

Director: Rachel Talalay

Director: Rachel Talalay

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01/01/01
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

In the end there are a few too many formulas and too few surprises.

Full Review Source: Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

Petty ruins this movie with her bad acting, inability to crack jokes, and the ability to look stupid no matter what she is doing.

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

The story, which feels like a disjointed collection of low-budget rock videos more than a coherent plot, just rocks idly on its pseudo-fashionable backside.

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01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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One of those chew-the-popcorn, munch-the-candy flicks - - the kind you go into expecting to have a good time, but nothing more. Given those expectations, disappointment is as unlikely as boredom.

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James Berardinelli
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The film tries very hard to recreate the comic book's wild and wacky flair and in the end it is a total assault on the senses with deafening rock music interspersed clips of psychedelic animation.

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01/01/00
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page

Simply bad.

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01/01/00
Madeleine Williams
Madeleine Williams
Cinematter

A glorious, spastic mess.

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01/01/00
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

The result is a bracing film that's halfway between a string of MTV videos (Courtney Love put together the edgy soundtrack) and some of that network's over-the-top cartoons.

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01/01/00
Richard Harrington
Richard Harrington
Washington Post

Enormous energy went into this movie. I could not, however, care about it for much more than a moment at a time, and after awhile its manic energy wore me down.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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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.

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Scott Renshaw
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She may not be to everyone's taste, but she's certainly refreshing.

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Scott Rosenberg
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