Amateur movie with Big budget

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Does not have the same edge as the comic books, but with half of the movie being cartoon sequences it still tries. I often wish they would remake this thing. Maybee if they did what they did with Judge Dredd. If they would get it closer to the comics. With the Dredd movie they still got a lot wrong, but it was better than the Stallone Movie. This movie is much like Stallone's movie in the way that it's limited. I think it was harder to recreate a comic book story in 1995 then now. The movie is a trip though and definitely entertaining. and Yes Ice-T is a giant kangaroo .

There are many bad comic book adaptations out there, but TANK GIRL ranks as one of the very worst. This is a horribly dated comedy-action film set in a post-apocalyptic world ruled over by an evil megalomaniac, played by Malcolm McDowell with maximum ham. Into this world comes Tank Girl as played by Lori Petty, a loud, bratty, and entirely overbearing young heroine who proceeds to kick plenty of backside as she takes the fight to the bad guys.I remember thinking that Stallone's much-maligned JUDGE DREDD, which came out in the same year, was actually quite a fun film and TANK GIRL serves to prove that opinion; it makes JUDGE DREDD look masterful by comparison. This is a loud, brash, noisy, and stupid film, without an ounce of wit and plenty of stupidity instead. You have to wonder what possessed the producers to make such a derivative and dumb movie, filled with one-dimensional characters and no real plot amid the insanity. Modern viewers can only sit back and wonder at Naomi Watts in an awful early acting performance and the stupidity of the costumes of those kangaroo people which come straight out of a kid's film. So bad it's good? Nah, so bad it's plain silly.

You would think that a movie based on a harum-scarum comic book series, taking advantage of a punk-rock aesthetic would be an interesting premise. The titular hero is played by Lori Petty who up to that point was known for playing Geena Davis's annoying kid sister in A League of Their Own (1992). Here she's a zany post-apocalyptic scavenger, turned western-style avenger. After her commune is massacred by W&P, a pseudo- fascist corporation of ill-repute, she and fellow survivor Sam (Stacy Linn Ramsower) are captured, separated and tortured. Tank Girl escapes the clutches of the evil Kesslee (played in full check-collecting mode by Malcolm McDowell) and tries to save the young Sam with the help of Jet Girl (Naomi Watts), Sub Girl (Ann Cusack) and The Rippers who are basically mutant kangaroos led by Ice-T in heavy makeup.Despite the inherent ridiculousness of the characters, nonsensical story elements and, I kid you not, an extended musical rendition of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It," Tank Girl could have been an interesting counterculture movie. The comic books the film is based on are considered far-left staples of Thatcher Era England, featuring an ultra-violent anti-hero with (gasp) fluid sexuality. While I credit the movie for being infectiously post-feminist, when compared to it's source material, it simply doesn't go far enough.Now granted the collection and subsequent bastardization of Tank Girl IP was followed by the movie licencing of The Mask (1994) a property similar in aesthetic and humor. Similarly the source material was watered down but what The Mask lost in macabre bite, it more than made up for in cogent storytelling. Let's not forget that the editing in Tank Girl is sloppy and slow, the cinematography reaches the slumping capstone of a sub-par music video and the art design, while lovingly anarchic can't help but feel lo-fi, and not in a good way. It's just a garish, slowly paced, sophomoric and pointless film that could have been something but is plagued with half-measures.

I hadn't seen "Tank Girl" since its theatrical release, then it showed up on Netflix and gave me a chance to remember what a fun ride it is.The movie isn't and doesn't try to be a great film. Instead it is as campy as a great Thrift Store, and reminds me that for almost a decade it stood in my mind as the most comic-book like movie actually derived from a comic book.There's also a great soundtrack, wonderful animated sequences from the comic and most importantly Lori Petty giving every actor ever a lesson in owning a role.Lori Petty is the best of many reasons to see "Tank Girl." She is a delight as the brazen, brassy, ballsy and bratty heroine who accomplishes the anarchist's wet dream of taking down the power. That voice, that grin, that swagger; Lori Petty/Becky (aka: Tank Girl) is enjoying a good-time death wish. I could watch and listen to Lori Petty pi$$ off Malcolm McDowell all day.As a special treat, keep your eyes on the t-shirts. Among the many costume changes Ms. Petty sports is a....oh, that might constitute a spoiler.