This may shock Inverse’s younger readers, but there was once a time when directors were allowed to adapt comic book properties not owned by Marvel and DC. This lost era produced a couple of hits, a few cult classics, and a whole lot of duds, but only one movie was bold enough to slather Ice-T in prosthetics and cast him alongside Malcolm McDowell.
Tank Girl could be described as a campy Mad Max, although that description is left somewhat wanting by the time Lori Petty bangs a kangaroo-man. Based on the long-running British comic, the movie is set in a drought-stricken Australia in the aftermath of a catastrophic meteor impact. Rebecca Buck (Lori Petty) lives with her boyfriend in a ramshackle commune, but goons from Kesslee’s (McDowell) evil Water & Power monopoly seize their water, kidnap Rebecca and a little girl named Sam, and murder everyone else. Revenge ensues, and you can probably guess the form it takes.
