Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6295 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-06-25
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
• Dubbed in: French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 99 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
In Tank Girl, director Rachel Talalay's aggressively hip adaptation of the cult comic book, it is 2033 and the earth has been clobbered by 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? Mysterious mutants called the Rippers and, of course, Tank Girl. Lori Petty plays the eponymous, 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. For all it lacks, Tank Girl is visually an eye-popper, worth watching for the insane set and costume designs alone. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French German Italian Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menu
Chapter Selection
Danish\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Norwegian\Spanish\Swedish

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 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.

Customer Reviews

Buy this- NOW
I could give you a very long, rambling list of reasons why you should watch this. Equally somebody who hasn't enjoyed it can give you a list of reasons why you shouldn't watch it.

Basically it comes down to being a slightly bizzare flick with an odd plot and some great lines. Watch it and make up your own mind.

(Oh and the O.G gangster Ice-T as a mutant Kangaroo has gotta do something for you!)

so girls just want to have fun?
My best friend brought this movie to my attention as she felt that the lead character kicked ass (in the local venacular). The comic element and comedic elements too remind one of Barbarella to some extent but only in a limited way. This movie is about girl power and the ability of a girl to make her own way in a man's world. She has all of the armaments that one would expect of a girl but she has no qualms about borrowing a few from men either.

I think that the whole point is just to bring the whole notion into female conciousness and to say hold on there we must play by our rules rather than men's. Strike one for equal treatment.

This may not be the world's best movie but it does open up possibilities. As a man I may not like the idea of women striking out for themselves to reach the top but as someone who believes that men have no divine right to be superior by virtue of our sex (not gender which is a role and which I hate people using incorrectly) and women should have the same opportunities as men I think that this is great.

So have some fun have some laughs but there is a serious message here...girls want to have fun but girls want to achieve and deserve the right to do so.

Interesting idea but a little silly in places
This is a film based on a girl's (OK, "young adult women's") action comic which I've never read myself. The setting is 2033. A comet crashed into Earth 8 years ago and now the world is desert. All the water that isn't in the seas is only available underground. Most of the land is owned by the Water and Power company that virtually has a monopoly on water distribution -- their army enforces what little law remains.

Rebecca is a young woman who is both a survivor and is bored. She is captured by the Water and Power company. The sadistic chief of the company realises that she could be useful and sets about breaking her.

The film embraces its comic orgins with many of the linking scenes done in comic/animation form rather than live action.

The film was OK but it was nothing special. As other reviewers have commented -- the film is reminiscent of the Mad Max movies. In some parts of the movie the humour was darkly comic, in other parts the humour was slapstick (which I just find silly). As the film spends so much time on humourous situations you don't engage with the characters that much.