Having enjoyed the comic strip Tank Girl, I was initially pleased when I heard that they were going to give the heavily-armed anti-heroine her own movie.
Unfortunately, the movie "Tank Girl" is a classic example of how Hollywood takes a great and original idea and *&@%s it up royally. Apart from some of the production design (namely TG's tank and Jet Girl's plane) the movie bears hardly any relation at all to its source material.
Rather than throw a shedload of cash at making humans up to look like unconvincing kangaroo mutants, the producers should have employed a group of Korean animators and made a feature-length cartoon. No-one would have had a problem with a talking kangaroo if he was animated!
Not content with deciding to restrict the imaginative depth of Tank girl with a live-action rendition, the producers cocked things up even more by removing any vestige of what made the eponymous anti-heroine such an attractive character in the first place. The comic book Tank Girl is an almost entirely selfish and amoral being who only ends up doing good by accident. The movie Tank Girl was no more than an Americanised female version of Mad Max, who arrived on the Post-Apocalyptic Movie Scene approximately 10 years too late to cash in.
Put simply, "Tank Girl" is another of Hollywood's missed opportunities.
Unfortunately, the movie "Tank Girl" is a classic example of how Hollywood takes a great and original idea and *&@%s it up royally. Apart from some of the production design (namely TG's tank and Jet Girl's plane) the movie bears hardly any relation at all to its source material.
Rather than throw a shedload of cash at making humans up to look like unconvincing kangaroo mutants, the producers should have employed a group of Korean animators and made a feature-length cartoon. No-one would have had a problem with a talking kangaroo if he was animated!
Not content with deciding to restrict the imaginative depth of Tank girl with a live-action rendition, the producers cocked things up even more by removing any vestige of what made the eponymous anti-heroine such an attractive character in the first place. The comic book Tank Girl is an almost entirely selfish and amoral being who only ends up doing good by accident. The movie Tank Girl was no more than an Americanised female version of Mad Max, who arrived on the Post-Apocalyptic Movie Scene approximately 10 years too late to cash in.
Put simply, "Tank Girl" is another of Hollywood's missed opportunities.