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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tank Girl" is brill. Based on a witty, Brit-y, cool cult comic book, this live-action movie introduces a heroine who could erase bunny bimbo, Jessica Rabbit, with one irreverent stomp of her oversized MC boot. Tank Girl could be the product of a rather revolting orgy involving Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Madonna, and Courtney Love. She's the baby that could be born if Thelma impregnated Louise with a turkey baster. But at the bottom of her cliff, this girl's driving off in her tank, swigging from a Forty and laughing out loud...
Artist Jamie Hewlett and writer Alan Martin were a couple of British blokes who emerged from the subterranean 'zine scene with the chronicles of Tank Girl, whose major pursuits include drinking too much beer, smoking cigarettes and snogging any kangaroo that comes her way. Occasionally in the comic books, she's sent on missions such as delivering colostomy bags to the President, but Hewlett and Martin merely flirt with the concept of plot, reveling instead in irrelevant violence and super-cool style...
Talalay succeeds in capturing the colorful, playful nature of a comic strip. The scenes come fast and funny, and aren't bound by the conventional live-action restraint of continuity. In the course of the film, Tank Girl wears dozens of different get-ups, the work of brilliant costume designer Arianne Phillips, which are sure to inspire suburban pre-teens across the land...
...guy/good guy, action-movie plot. Although spoofing the conventional action movie is hardly original, Talalay's failure to comment on or corrupt the form seems naive, and betrays Tank Girl, forcing upon her the burden of morals. It's ironic that the three dimensional characters of the comic book become flat, at least in their simplistic division between good and evil, in the medium of film...
Inevitably, hard core fans will miss the nasty edge of the comic book version, and those wary of Hollywood commercialization will prick up their ears for the faintest whisper of `sell-out,' but obscure British references and gleeful violence don't always merit a $25 million budget. At least not obscure British references. Even those hard-core comic geeks who were down with Tank Girl before she became so freaking cool, ought to get a kick out of this sneak peek into their adorable idol's history. The movie's plot can be appreciated as a prologue, how Tank Girl...