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Tank Girl

1995

Rachel Talalay

Lori Petty, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Don Harvey ...

4.5

1,508

Sci-Fi. Action. Comedy In the year 2033, the world's water supply is controlled by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), a maniacal dictator who presides over the Water & Power company. Tank Girl (Lori Petty), a tough punk water poacher, struggles alongside her comrades to deliver the valuable resource to parched persons around the globe. But when Tank Girl is captured by Kesslee, he makes her work as one of his human automatons in the W & P mines. Her fate goes from ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Lori Petty does a nice job in the title role of this enjoyable 1995 feature (...) It's a lot more feminist than what usually passes for adult fare."	POS
United States	Richard Harrington The Washington Post	"Rachel Talalay opts for an approach that emphasizes surface and flash at the expense of depth and coherence -- much like its source."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Petty is the only reason to see this coy and scrappy comic-book adventure-a trash bin of sci-fi detritus."	NEG
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin's neo-underground cult comic book Tank Girl comes to life looking, amazingly, exactly like it ought to, positively overflowing with an ever-changing riot"	POS
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"A bratty, punked-up sci-fi romp crammed with pop- cult references "	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Petty is the only reason to see this coy and scrappy comic-book adventure-a trash bin of sci-fi detritus."	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"'Tank Girl' is for teenagers, who will find something exuberant in its anarchic spirit as well as in its barrages of image"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Watching 'Tank Girl' is as disorienting as waking up in someone else's bad dream. You want to get out as fast as possible, but all the exits seem to be blocked."	NEG

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