Review – Tank Girl

The jump-cut-intensive editing, off-the-wall plot and characters, and frantic, quirky sense of humor in this movie combine in a way that in places turns out to be genuinely amusing. Unfortunately when the elements don’t blend, this production’s downright annoying. Lori Petty stars as the irrepressible heroine in a post-apocalyptic world where water is the most valuable commodity. Malcolm McDowell stoops to yet another how-the-mighty-art-fallen role as the evil dictator who commands the world’s water supply. The art direction doesn’t just acknowledge the picture’s comic book origins, it revels in them. That by itself wouldn’t be so bad; in fact, the brief animated vignettes are actually some of the high points of the movie. But by the time you’ve stirred in a half-dozen or so guys dressed up as giant, mutant kangaroos, the whole thing gets too weak and absurd to keep rolling on its own steam. E for effort, but a somewhat lower grade for execution. See if desperate