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Tank Girl (1995)

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Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:13

Rotten:18

Average Rating:4.9/10

Consensus: While unconventional, Tank Girl isn't particularly clever or engaging, and none of the script's copious one-liners have any real zing.

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: 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... 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 bad to worse when Kesslee makes her a proposition: She can go free if she agrees to exterminate the ravenous Rippers--half-man, half-kangaroo beasts. But before she's forced to answer, along comes Jet Girl (Naomi Watts), who rescues Tank Girl from Kesslee's clutches. Now these two spunky chicks will do whatever it takes to destroy Kesslee and hydrate the desert planet. The film is based on the comic book by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. [More]

Starring: Lori Petty, Ice-T, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts

Starring: Lori Petty, Ice-T, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts, Iggy Pop, Ann Magnuson

Director: Rachel Talalay

Director: Rachel Talalay

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Ultimately, I had a lot more fun at this movie that I did at Batman Forever.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
09/03/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
Leonard Klady
Leonard Klady
Variety
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girl power

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04/09/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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How well you'll tolerate this utterly unhinged quasi-feminist comic book fantasy depends on your Lori Petty threshold.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/18/07
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Lori Petty does a nice job in the title role of this enjoyable 1995 feature based on the postapocalyptic SF comic book and set in the year 2033.

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04/18/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Generous souls may try to blame this travesty of the Deadline comic-strip on the studio execs who forced director Talalay to tone down and re-edit her cut.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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Time Out

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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
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01/19/05
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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05/01/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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02/04/04
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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12/02/03
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
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06/04/03
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Chief among its strong points is Lori Petty, a buzz-cut fashion plate in a Prozac necklace, who brings the necessary gusto to Tank Girl's flippancy.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Ugh.

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02/11/03
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
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Unique and funny in the same time.

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11/25/02
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
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A lot more fun than you'd think

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08/22/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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07/25/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

Annoying for readers of the comic who saw Tank Girl's 'history' being rewritten for the screen

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07/27/01
Shane Burridge
Shane Burridge
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A frenzied mess that's dull in the extreme.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
06/27/01
Almar Haflidason
Almar Haflidason
BBC

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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
02/13/01
Kenneth Turan
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Los Angeles Times
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