Tank Girl

Actually, believe it or not, the comic book is STRANGER. By far.

Fun fact: Jamie Hewlett, the creator of Tank Girl, is now famous as the illustrator for internationally famous virtual band(and one of my favorite musical acts) Gorillaz. Pretty cool, huh?

Ah, I did not know that…great “band,” too. I have both their albums, their remix album, and their DVD.

I like the scene where Tankgirl has sex with the kangaroo/men crossing thing. Thats quit amusing. I also have read the comics, and i love the movie.

Hard to believe Naomi Watts played Jet Girl in this then went on to be in The Ring and Peter Jackson’s King Kong.

I agree - Naomi Watts in this movie is just totally strange. Fun though - she’s pretty good.

Here’s a fun fact about Lori Petty, AKA Tank Girl: according to the IMDB she “was originally cast as the main actress in Demolition Man (1993), but there were problems, and Sandra Bullock was cast instead.” Rumors say that the casting director thought she looked too much like a “Butch bulldyke.” I swear I’m not making this up!

HEY! Somebody review Demolition Man! Dumb movie, but dumb FUN movie!

Unfortunatley, Demolition Man probably deserves to be in the cue.

Damn Lori Petty’s hot.

tank girl wasnt really a big hit but i loved the movie. the movie was funny and just crazy and i love movies like that. the movies they put into theaters these days arent very good. i have saw alot of low budget movies that deserve to be put in theater but werent. i have to say tank girl is still one of my favorite movies. im no expert on movies although i have seen alot of them but i still think tank girl was one of the best movies i have saw but thats just my opinion.

Ugliest production / costume design ever. For one thing. And this, after such fabulous source material was already laid out. I loved the comics and thought Tank Girl was the hottest thing since scalding coffee… alas, the teeth were pulled from the comics by LA-Land again. The stories in the comics have a meandering nonsensical feel… whereas, Hollywood, once again, decided it must have some stupid simple narrative… and she must be a hero, blah, blah, blah… vs. a bad man blah blah blah… nothing to do with the tone of the comic book. I wouldn’t mind Lori Petty, I think, if all the stuff around her worked better. And how can Malcolm McDowell ever be faulted? And where was the grit?!… all wrong for me. Well, those are my vitriolic two cents.

McDowell always manages to play really evil bad guy characters, it’s just part of his persona. I grew up loving this film so I can’t really say much bad about it, I also loved the comics but I think it’s the comic and the film have the same relationship towards each other that the original Ghost in the Shell manga and movie had to each other.

The population at large tend not to like complex and insane stories that bounce back and forward, which is why for GITS and Tank Girl they took the most profitable characteristics and just built with those. Tank Girl could have been made more gritty I agree, but it would have made even less of a splash (bad lack of water pun) than it did with the mass media. So in the end all it becomes is a fun movie that you can watch whenever you feel in need of a laugh.

Hi Neurotica Divine, I never got to see the comics. I’d like to though. and yeah, InnateMalk, McDowell has been typecast as the smarmy bad guy for a loooong time.

Regarding the grittiness, Tank Girl was made more tongue and cheek than anything - I think if they had gone grittier, they might have been forced to try to make a serious movie. I don’t think the script was good enough to do that, not to mention the acting.

The comic is strong and just PUNK. The movie is a pop-flick, easy to digest, lots of fun and less kick in the teeth. Didn’t like it.

Tankgirl is hot as hell. I like the movie and the chick. DL-it some weeks ago, and enjoy it, even if it got bad critics and didn’t become a big box-office hit.

And imagine, having sex with a mutant kangaroo, having to take a bath with 10 other people crammed in a bath-tub, thats not that bad, is it ?

THIS MOVIE ROCKS SOOOOO WICKED HARDCORE ROCKED MY WORLD AND MY BED!!!

Lori Petty was just so freaking cute in this film. I also liked the kangaroo thing. Also, the person who played the cop/dog character was Ice-T. It’s funny, cause now he plays as a cop named Fin on Law & Order.

the comic is way more absurd than the movie.

i remember this film from back in the day. wait a sec, wasn’t ice t in this

Malcolm McDowell was the only reason I watched this film. Everything else about it was just painfully awful to me, I felt like that bloke from the beginning of the film who was forced to walk barefoot over those shards of broken glass.

she is gay

she is gay and fat and stupid

and a fucking bitch ass nigger and a cunt

she has a dick not a pussy pussy i really luv ur moms pussy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Oo

Recently had the twisted glee of watching this for a film writing class, and I’m doing the cyberpunk genre… my teenaged children watched it with me, and when it was over, they all looked at me, tipped their heads to the side like puppies and said, “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT????” I never laughed so hard at so much insanity in one small space. I liked that no one took it seriously, they all had fun, and so we did too. It is a horrible movie, but horrible in a way you just can’t stop watching, because you are waiting to see exactly how bad it can get.

If i had known Jaime Hewlett had a hand in this it would have made total sense to me.

Yeah, the chick from TankGirl rocks. Cool haircuts. PS: Did you know, that in each difrent scene in this movie, that she has a difrent haircut. Yep she has. Funny or not ? And yeah, the only movie i have ever seen where the main actor /chick has sex with a mutant kangaroo…. lol!!

that never happens? i just watched it…

Ok this is one of my absolute favourites of all time. It is just brilliant on it’s theme! Can’t help not to love it, no matter how much I hear people talking how it’s such an awfull movie. For me, it’s not. It’s simply great. It’s not about well written plots and clever progression, high budget efects and believable scenarios. It is about wackiness, attitude, crazyness and the everliving inner child. It’s happy punk, light hearted street rascals, freedom, madness within anarchy, and pissing over the ideas of all conventionalism and socially accepted ways of being, with a quirky, cynical and laid back grinn on the face. It says; deal with whatever crap the life hits you with some humor and inner flame, and meanwhile; try not to go so much with the ever so tiresome masses - and have some fun.
Not all that is punk needs to be grim, heavy and ill-fated for me to work, cause what is punk is more than just misery with a hardened skinn. Or maybe, I just don’t get what punk is. But I do get this movie.

Well This movie sucks. Besides i’m a good customer, it even don’t worth to see it

Last night we started watching this movie. why? because my girlfriend loves the drawing art of Jamie Hewlett. Man was this movie a big dissapointment for her. While Jamie Hewlett is from England this movie is like an americanized wannabe version of Tank Girl. We Didn’t even watched the complete movie because we where so annoyed by the wannabe doing special actors.

She’s NOT a lesbian, though; she just likes short hair.

well in my personal theroy i believe the movie was spost to have a weak story. anyone that has read the books knows that theres not really a big story all through the books ya theres hints of a theme but no theme ever truly comes out of it thats part of the fun im sure the hollywood people throught that if they where going to make anymoney off of it there had to be a story line but because they didnt want to ruin the movie for all us real fans so the didnt lay the story 2 thick. they did a good job of what they where going to have to go up agianist. one last note anyone that has ever read a comic book and then watched the movie knows it will never come out the same so quit bitching

Being a fan of the comics, I didn’t like this movie. Tbh, though, I don’t know why they adapted it. Tank girl isn’t supposed to have a plot or character development or any of the hollywood shit. What its supposed to be is Tank Girl killing (often innocent) people, making very crude sex jokes and fucking an anthropomorphic kangaroo called Booga.

i looooved the costumes! cmon. whats your sense of fashion? white robeS?