Sydney 2011 Review: MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD
rating:4
To call Mutant Girls Squad over the top is putting it mildly indeed. The culmination of three insanely excessive minds (namely Japanese directors Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura and Tak Sakaguchi) this twist on the superhero mutant genre is one of the most purely entertaining films I have seen in a long time. On her 16th birthday, after her Dad reveals a chest with talking nipples and penis, bullied schoolgirl Rin learns she is part of a mutant clan who is at war with humans (sound familiar?). Then her parents are killed by a team of assassins (with Dads severed head landing tastefully onto her birthday cake nice!) and she develops an attitude and then sprouts a mutant claw akin to Freddy Kruegers. Rin then joins a foxy band of girls with other strange powers to match and goes on a mission to uphold the future of their species. Remember the head-exploding scene in Cronenbergs Scanners or the head that sprouted spider legs and ran off in Carpenters The Thing? Well those scenes dont even compare to the relentless, smashingly surreal comic-book bloody carnage on display here which is almost impossible to do justice to by describing. The mutant squad itself is made up of a wild bunch of weirdies with even weirder powers. One girls breasts have swords that suddenly protrude from them, another ones super power is an electric chainsaw that emerges from her backside, while another has antenna like hands on the side of her head. See what I mean? Utterly bonkers! It helps that the film has a zany sense of humour to match. One adversary who has been shot a multitude of times suddenly pauses, notices a plate of deliciously presented noodles and relishes in the fact that he can still savour a few moments to enjoy eating them. While the climax sees the main villain, (those special power is an extendable rubber prod that extends from his midriff) shoot out white puss from two giant boobs that are clamped to his massive head. This is a coming-of-age story like you have never seen before. Its sick, twisted, addictively fun and absolutely hilarious. Seriously stupid Extreme Asian entertainment.