Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

tdrish If she has time, she will serve and protect...just kidding! Our hero tank girl is one of the final survivors on earth, and she's here to protect the water supply, and is ready to take out any slime bag man who dares to get in her way, inside or outside the tank! ( She don't need no stinkin tank!) Tank Girl is loaded with quotes, quirkiness, and tons of laughs. After all these years, it still makes me laugh, no matter what type of mood I'm in. So strap yourself in for tons of attitude, humor, and steel, and Tank Girl will not let you down!

Leofwine_draca There are many bad comic book adaptations out there, but TANK GIRL ranks as one of the very worst. This is a horribly dated comedy-action film set in a post-apocalyptic world ruled over by an evil megalomaniac, played by Malcolm McDowell with maximum ham. Into this world comes Tank Girl as played by Lori Petty, a loud, bratty, and entirely overbearing young heroine who proceeds to kick plenty of backside as she takes the fight to the bad guys.I remember thinking that Stallone's much-maligned JUDGE DREDD, which came out in the same year, was actually quite a fun film and TANK GIRL serves to prove that opinion; it makes JUDGE DREDD look masterful by comparison. This is a loud, brash, noisy, and stupid film, without an ounce of wit and plenty of stupidity instead. You have to wonder what possessed the producers to make such a derivative and dumb movie, filled with one-dimensional characters and no real plot amid the insanity. Modern viewers can only sit back and wonder at Naomi Watts in an awful early acting performance and the stupidity of the costumes of those kangaroo people which come straight out of a kid's film. So bad it's good? Nah, so bad it's plain silly.

SnoopyStyle The world has been devastated by a comet and most of the water is gone. Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell) and the Water & Power Corporation control 95% of the remaining water. Rippers are mysterious mutants killing and pillaging without leaving a trace. Rebecca Buck (Lori Petty) live in a small isolated community. W&P attacks and Rebecca is taken prisoner. She befriends scared mechanic Jet Girl (Naomi Watts). They try to use Rebecca as bait for the Rippers. Jet Girl musters up the courage and steals the jet to join her. She steals a tank and becomes Tank Girl. They discover that her young friend Sam was sent to work in the sex club Liquid Silver. After a failed rescue, Tank Girl and Jet Girl stumble upon the Rippers' hideout. They turn out to be mutated kangaroo-human supersoldiers.Tank Girl may be the lead but I love Jet Girl. Lori Petty is possibly the perfect Tank Girl. She has the great irreverent energetic wildness. This is a campy comic book movie. It doesn't get campier than kangaroo hybrids but this movie won't be restrained by that. It is broadly amateurish and unrelenting cheesy. It's no masterpiece but it's awkwardly fun. Jet Girl does put this over the top for me and it's probably the first film I noticed Naomi Watts. It's likely years later that I realized that it was Naomi Watts after she got big. It also has some good music. There is simply nothing like this movie.

BA_Harrison In Rebecca Buck (aka Tank Girl), as played by Lori Petty, we have what is probably the single most irritating live-action comic-book character ever to make it to the silver screen. The intention was clearly to make Rebecca a lovable, quirky, anarchic, spunky, funny, sexy, alternative anti-heroine with attitude, someone with whom everyone, regardless of their sex, could fall for. Petty's grating grrl-power performance ensures that the opposite rings true: she is shrill, obnoxious and tiresome in the extreme.Unfortunately, Petty's painful performance isn't the only problem with Tank Girl. Director Rachel Talalay's attempts at capturing the rebellious spirit of the comic fall flat on their face. With seemingly no understanding of what does and does not work, Talalay chucks everything onto the screen no matter how cringe-worthy, including what could qualify as the most awkward song and dance number in the history of cinema. Meanwhile, Malcolm MacDowell and Ice-T chalk up another bomb on their respective filmographies and make-up legend Stan Winston tries but fails to make human kangaroos not look as stupid as they sound.A cool alternative soundtrack adds some much needed oomph to proceedings, there are some surprisingly slick scenes of animation (that suggest that the whole thing would have worked far better as a feature length animated movie) and Naomi Watts is likable as Rebecca's nerdy side-kick Jet Girl (the actress looking great with dark hair), but it's nowhere near enough to prevent this film from being a tedious, virtually unwatchable mess.