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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 7692
Released: April 10, 2001 |
| Our Price: $5.06 |
| Used Price: $4.08 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
If you're into in-your-face visuals, outrageous action sequences and non-stop explosive laughs, this is your "rip-roaring power surge of a movie" (L.A. Weekly). The year's 2033 and since a humongous meteor hit earth, the world just hasn't been the same. No Movies, No Cable TV, NO WATER!!! A mega-villain, Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), the leader of Water & Power, holds the world in his grasp since he controls all the H2O down to the last drop...or so he thinks. Two colossal enemiesstand in his way: (1) The Rippers - an army of half-men/half-kangaroo people whose sole purpose is to bring down the W & P, and (2) a chick with a tank and tons of attitude - a.k.a. Tank Girl (Lori Petty). Kesslee had better get a grip on reality and his water jugs because not even a run in her stocking is going to stop her from saving the planet.
Description of Tank Girl:
The Year is 2033. Earth has been clobbered with a comet, civilization has been destroyed, and it hasn't rained in 11 years. Nearly all the water on the planet is controlled by the evil Water and Power company, which is in turn controlled by the even more evil Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell). Who stands in the way? Some mysterious mutants called the Rippers and, of course, Tank Girl. Lori Petty plays Tank Girl, the wisecracking, defiant heart of the movie, as kind of an inner child gone wild. Unfortunately Petty can't quite carry a movie on her own--her zingers frequently fall flat and she seems to be continually worried that we still like her. Luckily there's Naomi Watts as Jet Girl to save the day: smart, shy, and inherently way more appealing than Tank Girl. Tank Girl is based on the comic of the same name, and it is visually an eye-popper. It's worth watching for the insane set and costume designs alone. --Ali Davis
Tank Girl Reviews:
i loved it! 
2009-09-24 - Tank girl rocks!From the first minute i saw the movie i was hooked.This movie is weird,bizzare,and punk....need i say more.
Fun movie 
2009-08-31 - This weird little flick offers the perfect combination of empowered women, cartoonish evil, heavy weapons and angry man-kangaroos. Add a sixer of cheap beer and you've got a great timewaster for a dull afternoon.
Tank Girl
2009-08-08 - Really fun movie. Watched it a 100 times. Little strong in the language and innuidoes but the over all message about protecting children and freedom was good.
Very funny!
2009-06-27 - This was the first time I had heard of the movie. It was funny from beginning to end. We bought the movie because my husband wanted it. The movie was better than the title depicts.
new favorite movie
2009-06-19 - tank girl is the original riot grrrl!
i love this movie & the comic series- and i'm not into comics (well, with the exception of vintage catwoman & tank girl).
if you like women who can kick some @s$, take names, look hot in that punk rock devil-may-care way, and survive just about anything - tank girl is for you.
