Conference bookie::movies

    
    	I read somewhere ["Rolling Stone", maybe?] that it's based on a
    	popular [somewhere] comic book.
    
    	Stars Lori Petty, from "Point Break" and "A League of Their Own".
    

> There's so much advertising on tv for this flick, just had
> to give it a note.

	Seeing you've seen so many ads about it, why don't you fill
	the rest of us in ........

    
>    At what audience is this thing directed?

    	The same audience that liked Stargate and Ace Ventura?  :-)

I saw a preview for this a few months ago that, and at the time I didn't 
believe that this could be a real movie.

Lori Petty is sitting in her tank (in the middle of a desert) saying,
"Save the world......or have a beer....save the world.....or have a beer".

The preview made Ace Ventura look like an intelligent movie.


Mike.

    The comic book and movie are set in a post-apocalyptic world, somewhat
    like Mad Max.  There's some scarce, vital commodity that the villain is
    trying to control, and Tank Girl sides with a resistance organization
    which is apparently largely composed of mutant kangaroo-people.

    
    I believe the point of this movie is to spoof itself.
    
    MJ

    Malcolm Mcdowell's name is listed. From the commercials, I'd say he was
    one (if not THE) bad guy.
    
    Entertainment Tonight did a quick blurb on the movie. It does look like
    a spoof. There were some shots of the "tank" being hauled around on a
    flatbed truck.
    
    janetb.

RE .1 - Thanks for reminding me why Lori Petty's name was familiar - I couldn't
remember, and it was driving me crazy!

The movie got a fairly good review in the Boston Globe.  FWIW.

-- Nina

    I saw this movie!  And I paid full price for it!!!
    
    Storyline behind spoiler
    
    
    
     The plot:  Set in the future after a comet hit earth killing most
    everyone.  Water is scarce.  It hasn't rained in 11 years.  Tank girl's
    real movie name is Rebecca and she lives in a big house in the middle
    of a desert with a couple other people including her boyfriend and two
    little kids (boy and girl).  They are siphoning water and power from
    the official bad guy who has taken control of all the water and power
    and formed a company called....Water and Power.
    
    The Water and Power people find out they are siphoning water and attack
    them killing everyone as Rebecca tries frantically to save them.  She
    is pretty good with a gun and various other weapons.  She kills several
    of the Water/Power bad guys.  They take her to the Head of the Bad Guys
    and he wants her to work for him.  She refuses and he proceeds to
    torture her to break her spirit.  She hangs in there and meets up with
    another girl prisoner.  The two of them break out (that where she gets
    her tank).
    
    Later on in the movie, she finds out the little girl is still alive and 
    the Head of the Bad Guys has her.  
    
    There are other characters called Drifters or Rifters.  They are always
    messing up the Head Bad Guys plans by killing off his henchmen and
    stealing water and power.  He wants to know where their hideaway is
    located which is the main reason he wants Tank Girl to work for him.
    
    After Rebecca finds out he has the little girl, she goes to the Rifters 
    for help.  They are the Kangeroo people and the rest of the movie is
    pretty much her going after the little girl and the Big Fight scene
    between Tank Girl and the Bad Guy.
    
    Despite all the horrible atrocities Rebecca is living through she still
    has a basically good attitude, always cracking jokes and refusing to
    give in.  
    
    I don't know if I liked this movie or not.  I think it was a terrible
    waste of $7.50, but on the other hand, it made me laugh (in some
    parts).  I would recommend waiting until the dollar show or renting.
    
    RS

    Hmmm...sounds like a 'Hollywoodisation' of a very good comic strip.  In
    the comic, the mutant kangaroo was her boyfriend.  
    
    Mikef

    re: -1
    
    spoiler:
    
    
    
      Yes, in this one she and the Roo get together too.  There is also
    a lot of actual comic strip cartoon stuff thrown in--it's not all
    regular movie footage.  Basically, a really wierd movie!
    
    RS

My wife and I saw it last night.

Before I review it, I should state that both she and I *like* post-holocaust
movies of the Mad Max/Road Warrior variety, the worse the better.  Anything
with barbarians and hi-tech weapons in a post-technology world is right up
our alley.  (Think of the section which holds movies like "Barbarian Queen" 
and "Ator" in your local Blockbuster store, and you get the idea: we have 
rented them all).  We also like movies that are a little out of the mainstream, 
such as Buckaroo Banzai and such.

Having said that, neither of us liked "Tank Girl" much.  My wife's comment was:

	It was so hip it was incomprehensible.

Horrible matte paintings (the opening scene with the bridge and the boat was
absolutely embarassingly bad), little to no continuity, and huge sections of
the plot were advanced with comic strip artwork, which in no way resembled
the main characters so it was difficult to follow.  Further, the sequence in
Liquid Silver (where Becky and Jet capture the Madam, and then force her to
sing an entire production number of "Let's Fall in Love") was enough to push
us right out of willing suspension of disbelief...

On the plus side the songs were decent, the comments by Becky were amusing,
the Rippers were extremely well done (with Stan Winston doing it I expected
nothing less than that) and some of the action sequences were also fun.

But on the whole, we just couldn't get into it.  Maybe if we were fans of the
comic it would have been different, but we had never heard of the comic before
going to to the movie.

-- Ken Moreau

    WELL INSPITE OF ALL THE REVIEWS I'M GOING TO GO SEE IT!! HOPEFULLY IT
    WILL MAKE ME LAUGH.
    
    J.G.
    

>    WELL INSPITE OF ALL THE REVIEWS I'M GOING TO GO SEE IT!! HOPEFULLY IT
>    WILL MAKE ME LAUGH.
>    
>    J.G.

Obviously.   It has already made you shout.