‘Tank Girl’ Blu-Ray Announced!
Tank Girl has had an abysmal record on home video. You can pick up a copy on Amazon for $54.99 (or a cheaper version if you happen to have a multi-region DVD player). For the most part, TankGirl has remained a true cult classic. You can be forgiven if you haven’t actually seen it. But your excuses will be running out soon, for Tank Girl gets a Blu ray release on November 17th!
As yet, no details have been released on special features or technical specs. All I will say is that you shouldn’t expect Criterion Collection-level treatment. Part of my excitement comes from seeing this movie for the first time in over fifteen years. I have missed the hammy Malcolm McDowell, the hammy Lori Petty, and the ham—wow—now that I think of it, this movie was pretty over-the-top. Also it has a Ice-T and a young Naomi Watts.
Tank Girl, for the uninitiated, is based off of a British comic property and bears few similarities to its source material. Purists of the world, unite! We know, we know: you were into Tank Girl before it was cool. Well, I was into liking things before they were cool before that was cool, so suck it! Anyway, Tank Girl takes place in a world where it hasn’t rained in eleven years, and evil Malcolm McDowell controls most of the world’s water. He can even extract water from the bodies of people he kills!
What separates Tank Girl from the other unsuccessful sci-fi/fantasy movies of the era is its sincere lack of sincerity. It knows exactly what it is and plays it up as much as it possibly can. This is the height of over-the-top! Those who can appreciate the goodness of a bad movie that knows exactly what kind of movie it is (like The Phantom if it understood a little better how stupid it was) will love Tank Girl.
But those of you who have already seen it didn’t really need to read any of that.
My love of Tank Girl has more than just nostalgia and a love for good bad movies behind it; Tank Girl was an early feminine role model for me, right up there with Willow, Leeloo Dallas (Multipass) and Matilda (shut up). Long before I made peace with the fact that my true gender identity is that of a woman, I was a young boy who had women heroes who I loved to see kick some serious ass and give ALL of the snark. Tank Girl’s independence and attitude made me the woman I am today. I am grateful that it is getting the chance to live on in this next generation of home video. Pre-order your copy today!
Lauren’s obsession with movies began at the age of three when she was shown Follow that Bird on VHS. From there she developed obsessions such as the James Bond franchise and began defending Jaws 2 as actually being pretty damn good. You can find her occasionally babbling on about personal issues at The Trans Pirate Lauren
