Repo Chick

If you are expected a sequel to Repo Man you will be sorely disappointed.

This move is an odd work of art and I don't mean that in a good way.

It was mostly shot in front of green screens with the backgrounds added after. The characters are weird and almost cartoonish and nothing is taken very seriously in this art movie, quiet the opposite of Repo Man. After you watch the movie you may grasp some concept of what the background setting is, as a character did at the end, but you are really only left confused and wondering why.

A few of the actors in Repo Man appear in the movie, but all that does is give it something in common with Plan 9 From Outer Space. Although it was comforting to hear Olivia Barash's (Leila) raspy voice in a cameo towards the end.

So unless your are some weird fan of Alex Cox creations, I would not buy this thing. There's a reason it never made it into the theaters.

This movie didn't give me any laugh out loud moments, but it was still entertaining. Most movies try to get background/scenery as near to realistic as possible, this movie went the other way making everything look as fake as possible, it's actually funny. The movie itself is pretty good. The Repo Chick is really beautiful. There is no nudity, maybe one curse word and while there was no same sex action there are a few guys that at gay. A good little movie to watch with teens.

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This is a scale model (really!) of and not a sequel to "Repo Man." Leave it to

Alex Cox to take us on a journey to some parallel universe. Not sure what just happened on the TV screen but it was just as campy as the punk culture captured in the first film. Need to watch it twice.

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This is at a level of bad that is somewhat difficult to believe. Its a badly written script done against green screens with crude visual effects thrown in. Even bad television has higher production values than this thing. A Paris Hilton clone has family problems. There isn't a likeable or funny character in the whole thing. About every five minutes like clockwork the film delivers a bleedingly obvious political point. Its not funny. Its not subtile. Its a director reduced to exploiting his own work (repo man) in an embarrasing way.

I edge towards thinking that this was deliberately bad. That someone was going through the motions or a score was being settled or an artist was showing contempt for money-people and/or fans. Or else its to raise money for something else.

The budget was low, but not that low. The talent of the cast wasn't tapped at all. Sometimes bad things can be interesting. But this is a chore to even sit through.

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Like a lot of people from my generation, Alex Cox's "Repo Man" was an important part of my life. This strange, nihilistic, cult-classic captured the odd mood of my time. Therefore it was only natural that when I heard of this I'd seek it out and give it a look over.

Unfortunately I was very disappointed.

There's just not much to this movie. Filmed quickly, the script seemed to lack much in the way of mood, meaning or point. The dialogue often seems pointless and it was difficult for me to really see what it was aimed at commenting on. (Ok, there's economic problems, see, and a growing gap between the rich and poor, but, and I think this is where the film diverged a bit from Repo Man, nobody really seemed to be attached to the problem in a spiritual sense. Their actions may have resulted from the situation but their personalities did not seem to have been created in response to the setting.)

All in all, a great disappointment that was 25 years in the making. I wish it had been better.

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