This movie is nearly indescribable. It's wild, to say the least.
Tank Girl is a rebel, based on an underground comic strip character. She's a wild child that likes gunes, mohawks, cigars, army boots and blowing stuff up. Her world is a nihilistic future where water is the commodity.
There's a bad guy who runs everything and psychotically wants to kill everything and everyone, played by Malcolm McDowell. There are mysterious man-eating creatures that nobody knows anything about.
Great music. Great sets. Fun cheapo scifi FX. Highly enjoyable acting.
What I didn't love is the level of violence. Tank Girl watches as everyone around her is tortured and killed, but doesn't seem overtly concerned about it. Still, it's pretty campy and not particularly gruesome.
An interesting twist is Tank Girls' sexual ambiguity. She obviously likes boys, but it doesn't seem like she dislikes girls, too. Makes the character a bit more interesting, actually, without going too overboard.
Overall, a classic of B-movie scifi...a Grrl Power Mad Max made in the 90s.
Two thumbs up - with all of the fingernails painted with a house brush!
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