| Tank Girl |
| Written by John Rozewicki | |
| Friday, 25 August 2006 | |
This Movie Came Out?I've known about Tank Girl for a long time. My first exposure was a teaser trailer for the movie on a VHS tape I had rented that featured Lori Petty appearing on the horizon riding on the barrel of a tank. I remember being intrigued by it, and also remember never hearing or seeing anything about it from that point up until recently. That was the only piece of advertising I saw for the movie, and so I really never thought it had actually come out. Maybe that's why it was such a box office failure. IMDB puts the US gross for the movie at $6.6 million and estimates the budget at $25 million.Didn't it Suck?One of the other things I had assumed from only seeing one teaser trailer for the movie was that it sucked. I'm big into movies; even as a kid. I was on a first-name basis at the local mom and pop video shop. I knew movies; not comic books. I assumed Tank Girl sucked because the movie that trailer was attached to was probably 2 or 3 years old when I was renting it, and I had never seen Tank Girl in any video store. Plus, the teaser trailer didn't exactly make it look like a substantial movie. Like I said, I didn't know comic books. I watched Tank Girl last night. I fully expected it to blow. I would have put money I didn't have on that fact if you had asked me a week ago. Turns out I was wrong in my assumptions. In the words of Penn Jillette, I couldn't have been more wrong if my name were W. Wrongy Wrongenstein.
It Came Out, and It Didn't Suck? Prove It.Tank Girl, based on the comic book of the same name, is a post-apocolyptic early 90's rock romp through the desert starring such stars as Lori Petty, Naomi Watts (I <3 Huckabees; King Kong), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), and Ice-T (Law & Order:SVU). It's about a girl who rides a tank butting heads with the evil leader of an, also evil, monopolistic conglomeration of a water company and a power company. Tanks are ridden, one-liners are spoken, women are kissed by other women, shit is blown up, and creepy humanoid kangaroos attempt to spark cross-species romance. Tank Girl is not the defining moment in 20th century cinema, but it's a unique and damn entertaining ride.It's Kinda Like...Stylistically, the closest movie to Tank Girl, if there could be one, would be Hackers. Specific situations in the movie are mostly laughable; humanoid kangaroos and assasination through osmosis. But like Hackers, the script and atmosphere are too good to pass up. The acting is bad, but none of it is out of place and all of it feels exactly how it is supposed to feel; like a bizarre comic book. To aid in the effect, many scenes are accompanied by short comic-book style animated interludes. Tank Girl is certainly an achievement if only for the fact that the specific bizarre elements that ordinarily wouldn't be entertaining, are made entertaining by the way they're mixed together and executed. The movie makes a chick bathing in sand while fully clothed seem sexy and tantalizing while also making a full cast Cole Porter sing along, with heroes and villains alike, entertaining too. I have to respect that.Don't Be a SnobWhat have we learned about making assumptions? Absolutely nothing. Tank Girl is the exception to the rule. It was a coin toss I was happily on the losing end of. What we have learned is that Tank Girl is a good movie that deserves more praise than it gets. Hell, it deserves any sort of recognition or praise that it might get. I can count the number of people who I have heard say the name of this movie on one hand; including media sources. If you like strange movies, comic books, early 90's rock music, or anything I've written about this movie that strikes your fancy then you should see it. It's real cheap on Amazon, and I'm sure your local video store will have a really old copy you can watch on VHS. I swear it'll be just as magical as having it on HD-DVD.Trackback(0)
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