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Visually this film beats all its predecessors hands down. --Twitch Film
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Rin is a seemingly normal Japanese high school girl, but on her 16th birthday, everything in her life changes when government special forces break into her home. After witnessing her mother s face blown into bits and her father s severed head falling into her birthday cake, Rin s dormant mutant abilities are awakened: her arm transforms into a sharp, knife-encrusted claw, and a moment later, she finds herself standing in a pool of blood, surrounded by dead soldiers! Fleeing and fighting her way though her hometown, she encounters a group of girls who were also born as mutants, and call themselves the Hiruko. A breed of mutants who have existed long before the so-called Japanese invaded their homeland and began to persecute them, the girls have different special abilities: one can transform her arms into swords, one can grow tentacles from her fingertips, and one can grow a chainsaw out of her body. The team hone their skills under their demented and powerful leader, Kisaragi, for one purpose: to take revenge on the Japanese who have been persecuting their breed for ages, and to take over Japan and transform it into a land for mutants only! The revenge of the mutant girls will soon begin!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Edward Lee
Format:Blu-ray
You learn something new every day. For example, I'd heard that the Japanese were in the midst of their own `splatter movement,' but I've specifically avoided the films for awhile. Oh, it isn't that I don't appreciate a good splatter; truth is, I probably appreciate one as much as the next. I think the drawback with a good splatter movie is that its success or failure with a audience largely depends on the mood of that crowd: you have to WANT to experience a good splatter movie, not simply discover one all on its own merits. When you do that, you're as likely to turn one off as you are to finish, and that may not bode well for MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD.
This `splatter' is a bit of a disaster, which it's clearly intended to be. Don't go into it looking for any of it to make any real sense, and you're liable to be modestly entertained, much in the same way that you can't turn away from watching an automobile accident happening right before your eyes. It's glorious mayhem - all for the sake of pure nihilism - and I've no doubt the crowd who embraces these pictures will find plenty to embrace here ... even if that's only embracing the lovely ladies at the center of this cinematic catastrophe.
Rin (played by the doe-eyed Yumi Sugimoto) turns sixteen, but her `sweet sixteen' is interrupted by forces of Japanese defense showing up and taking her into custody. Why? Because she's a Hiruko, i.e. a mutant - only one of many being held secretly against their will - and she's a danger to all mankind ... until, that is, she can master the use of her specific mutant abilities. Her specific abilities? Well, she sprouts an arm that's part-claw, part-sitar (or something) which can be used as a lethal weapon. Into the mix, she's joined by Yoshie (part-cosplay-nurse, part-squid) and Rei (part-stone-claw, part-bird?) and a whole host of others, including one extremely unfortunate Hiruko whose mutation consists of a chainsaw which sprouts out of her hindquarters, and they're in for one wild ride to overthrow Defense Minister Koshimizu (Naoto Takenaka) before he takes control of the world!
In all seriousness, there are so many elements of MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD that average folks are going to find offensive or insulting or degrading or ignorant or off-putting or outright ridiculous that I questioned whether or not I could honestly complete this review. I knew one thing: I couldn't do it with a straight face, and that's mostly how I endured the picture. Without a straight face. I didn't take any of it seriously, and I kept reminding myself that - while so much of the film wasn't up to my particular tastes in film - it really was so very much like that aforementioned auto accident: it's so very hard to look away. As much as it didn't made sense, I realized that - in its own humble yet creative way - it made perfect sense because it fit wonderfully into the bizarre world created by the three minds who already are at the forefront of the Japanese splatter movement: Noboru Iguchi (THE MACHINE GIRL), Yoshihiro Nishimura (TOKYO GORE POLICE) and Tak Sakaguchi (YOROI: SAMURAI ZOMBIE).
These three minds joined forces and made precisely the picture they wanted to make: pure splatterific dreck, but benign splatterific dreck, and it's a picture that's liable to be embraced by the very audience they intended: splatter fans.
If you have no idea of what a legitimate splatter film is, then you're liable to be lost (or insulted, or degraded, or any of the other adjectives cited above). You would do well to do a little research first before venturing into these bruised and bloodied waters. If you do know, then you're likely going to rent or purchase this despite anything I say ... and I'll leave you to it, only pausing briefly to wish you, "God speed!"
The film comes from Sushi Typhoon, and it is distributed stateside by Well Go USA. It looks and sounds as solid as you'd expect any splatter film to look and sound, and it's very clear great attention went into scene composition here. It's photographed much like the pages of an anime book - probably in keeping with its audiences desire - and the effects are only as convincing as they need be. The disc includes an Opening Day featurette, interviews with the creative personnel, a very brief `making of' special, and trailers for other related pictures. There's also a short movie spinoff titled "Yoshie Zero," but I didn't partake of it; I can only stomach so much splatter in my film diet.
RECOMMENDED ONLY AS A GUILTY PLEASURE as I'm sure an audience may very well find MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD as one of their closeted favorites - a cult movie, at best, and what harm is there in having another cult classic loose on mankind? I give it two-and-one-half stars, not for quality, but for the obvious love and the wish for global harmony with which the film was made.
In the interests of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the fine folks at Well Go USA provided me with a DVD screener copy of MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD for the expressed purposes of completing this review.
This `splatter' is a bit of a disaster, which it's clearly intended to be. Don't go into it looking for any of it to make any real sense, and you're liable to be modestly entertained, much in the same way that you can't turn away from watching an automobile accident happening right before your eyes. It's glorious mayhem - all for the sake of pure nihilism - and I've no doubt the crowd who embraces these pictures will find plenty to embrace here ... even if that's only embracing the lovely ladies at the center of this cinematic catastrophe.
Rin (played by the doe-eyed Yumi Sugimoto) turns sixteen, but her `sweet sixteen' is interrupted by forces of Japanese defense showing up and taking her into custody. Why? Because she's a Hiruko, i.e. a mutant - only one of many being held secretly against their will - and she's a danger to all mankind ... until, that is, she can master the use of her specific mutant abilities. Her specific abilities? Well, she sprouts an arm that's part-claw, part-sitar (or something) which can be used as a lethal weapon. Into the mix, she's joined by Yoshie (part-cosplay-nurse, part-squid) and Rei (part-stone-claw, part-bird?) and a whole host of others, including one extremely unfortunate Hiruko whose mutation consists of a chainsaw which sprouts out of her hindquarters, and they're in for one wild ride to overthrow Defense Minister Koshimizu (Naoto Takenaka) before he takes control of the world!
In all seriousness, there are so many elements of MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD that average folks are going to find offensive or insulting or degrading or ignorant or off-putting or outright ridiculous that I questioned whether or not I could honestly complete this review. I knew one thing: I couldn't do it with a straight face, and that's mostly how I endured the picture. Without a straight face. I didn't take any of it seriously, and I kept reminding myself that - while so much of the film wasn't up to my particular tastes in film - it really was so very much like that aforementioned auto accident: it's so very hard to look away. As much as it didn't made sense, I realized that - in its own humble yet creative way - it made perfect sense because it fit wonderfully into the bizarre world created by the three minds who already are at the forefront of the Japanese splatter movement: Noboru Iguchi (THE MACHINE GIRL), Yoshihiro Nishimura (TOKYO GORE POLICE) and Tak Sakaguchi (YOROI: SAMURAI ZOMBIE).
These three minds joined forces and made precisely the picture they wanted to make: pure splatterific dreck, but benign splatterific dreck, and it's a picture that's liable to be embraced by the very audience they intended: splatter fans.
If you have no idea of what a legitimate splatter film is, then you're liable to be lost (or insulted, or degraded, or any of the other adjectives cited above). You would do well to do a little research first before venturing into these bruised and bloodied waters. If you do know, then you're likely going to rent or purchase this despite anything I say ... and I'll leave you to it, only pausing briefly to wish you, "God speed!"
The film comes from Sushi Typhoon, and it is distributed stateside by Well Go USA. It looks and sounds as solid as you'd expect any splatter film to look and sound, and it's very clear great attention went into scene composition here. It's photographed much like the pages of an anime book - probably in keeping with its audiences desire - and the effects are only as convincing as they need be. The disc includes an Opening Day featurette, interviews with the creative personnel, a very brief `making of' special, and trailers for other related pictures. There's also a short movie spinoff titled "Yoshie Zero," but I didn't partake of it; I can only stomach so much splatter in my film diet.
RECOMMENDED ONLY AS A GUILTY PLEASURE as I'm sure an audience may very well find MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD as one of their closeted favorites - a cult movie, at best, and what harm is there in having another cult classic loose on mankind? I give it two-and-one-half stars, not for quality, but for the obvious love and the wish for global harmony with which the film was made.
In the interests of fairness, I'm pleased to disclose that the fine folks at Well Go USA provided me with a DVD screener copy of MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD for the expressed purposes of completing this review.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Leo Rivers
Format:DVD
A Nice Ham ala Chain-Saw - review: Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
Tak Sakaguchi (Director), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Director)
Where does one begin with the DVD release of this film called "Mutant Girls Squad"?
It isn't right to call it an exploitation-film like an LSD teenage sin and violence movie of the US in the 1960s, or gore-pornography like the slasher films the United States of the 1980s. In many ways it has a kind of demented glee rooted in a postmodern, cusp of the Apocalypse, Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol.
And it is very, very Japanese.
All I can say is the sexual repression underlying the polite conformity of Japanese culture with its tea-ceremony, origami, paper palaces and yellow, green, and red lines painted on the hallway floors of schools for students to follow from class to class with expensive enrichment tutors hired by anxious parents for their kindergartners must be a thin crust built on an emotional volcano on the verge of a detonation that could pop another moon from the Pacific into the Earth's orbit!
What is it about teenage middle and high school girls in sailor suits that so intimidates and sexually terrorizes the adult males of Japan? How is it these perfect porcelain little creatures are considered the martial-arts equals of the Avengers, Bruce Lee and the entire sword wielding career of the 7 Samurai?
The story is simple. A little halfbreed girl whose father is a mutant and her mother is a saint watches her parents machine-gunned by the Japanese equivalent of a S&M Homeland Security SWAT team. They capture her to torture her in the name of science but she is rescued by a gang of renegade teenage sailor suit wearing mutant girls. They train her to be one of them. And what are they? The one girl sprouts samurai swords from her breasts. Another has a long tongue that can go in any orifice and pop out the other humorously. And my favorite is a cute chubby girl who bends over grabs her knees, squints, grunts, and poots a chain-saw out of her butt!
Oh there is other business about a transvestite mother superior of this little gang and a "Lovecraft's Reanimator" heap of confusing guts and David Cronenberg style biological weirdness DEITY. And of course there is endless scenes of battles in which people's heads are sliced in 3 places so the different segments rotate like a Rubik's cube before popping off to a spray of blood that has Old Faithful proportions.
And there is of course all the girl-politics and infighting of the mutant girls amongst themselves. And the style of action is a combination of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "2000 Maniacs", "Blood Feast" and a meth-amphetamine bondage-magazine CosPlay (costume) enhanced Mutant Ninja Turtles action.
It is all a kind of hyper DADA global live-action cartoon mythology of biological and industrial technical mutant anarchy. For all its cartoon-like jaw-dropping series of wildly envisioned surreal violence, I suspect it is a kind of joyful poking of humorous social criticism at the Establishment.
I can't say that it is a good movie, but it is the 1st of these movies that made me think there was some kind of political and artistic aesthetic movement out there Japan to which this speaks, like the raw Punk Rock that came out of the hopelessness of British industrial cities in the early 1980s. Or maybe it is simply something that appeals like the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" to some segment of the 20 something generation in Japan.
It wasn't made for me. I am not going to collect these movies and lecture people about the intellectual importance of all this at cocktail parties. But you know, seeing that cute little chubby girl bend over, grab her knees, squint, and squirt a raging chainsaw out of her butt made me smile.
Review by Leo Rivers, Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:30:00 PM
Tak Sakaguchi (Director), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Director)
Where does one begin with the DVD release of this film called "Mutant Girls Squad"?
It isn't right to call it an exploitation-film like an LSD teenage sin and violence movie of the US in the 1960s, or gore-pornography like the slasher films the United States of the 1980s. In many ways it has a kind of demented glee rooted in a postmodern, cusp of the Apocalypse, Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol.
And it is very, very Japanese.
All I can say is the sexual repression underlying the polite conformity of Japanese culture with its tea-ceremony, origami, paper palaces and yellow, green, and red lines painted on the hallway floors of schools for students to follow from class to class with expensive enrichment tutors hired by anxious parents for their kindergartners must be a thin crust built on an emotional volcano on the verge of a detonation that could pop another moon from the Pacific into the Earth's orbit!
What is it about teenage middle and high school girls in sailor suits that so intimidates and sexually terrorizes the adult males of Japan? How is it these perfect porcelain little creatures are considered the martial-arts equals of the Avengers, Bruce Lee and the entire sword wielding career of the 7 Samurai?
The story is simple. A little halfbreed girl whose father is a mutant and her mother is a saint watches her parents machine-gunned by the Japanese equivalent of a S&M Homeland Security SWAT team. They capture her to torture her in the name of science but she is rescued by a gang of renegade teenage sailor suit wearing mutant girls. They train her to be one of them. And what are they? The one girl sprouts samurai swords from her breasts. Another has a long tongue that can go in any orifice and pop out the other humorously. And my favorite is a cute chubby girl who bends over grabs her knees, squints, grunts, and poots a chain-saw out of her butt!
Oh there is other business about a transvestite mother superior of this little gang and a "Lovecraft's Reanimator" heap of confusing guts and David Cronenberg style biological weirdness DEITY. And of course there is endless scenes of battles in which people's heads are sliced in 3 places so the different segments rotate like a Rubik's cube before popping off to a spray of blood that has Old Faithful proportions.
And there is of course all the girl-politics and infighting of the mutant girls amongst themselves. And the style of action is a combination of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "2000 Maniacs", "Blood Feast" and a meth-amphetamine bondage-magazine CosPlay (costume) enhanced Mutant Ninja Turtles action.
It is all a kind of hyper DADA global live-action cartoon mythology of biological and industrial technical mutant anarchy. For all its cartoon-like jaw-dropping series of wildly envisioned surreal violence, I suspect it is a kind of joyful poking of humorous social criticism at the Establishment.
I can't say that it is a good movie, but it is the 1st of these movies that made me think there was some kind of political and artistic aesthetic movement out there Japan to which this speaks, like the raw Punk Rock that came out of the hopelessness of British industrial cities in the early 1980s. Or maybe it is simply something that appeals like the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" to some segment of the 20 something generation in Japan.
It wasn't made for me. I am not going to collect these movies and lecture people about the intellectual importance of all this at cocktail parties. But you know, seeing that cute little chubby girl bend over, grab her knees, squint, and squirt a raging chainsaw out of her butt made me smile.
Review by Leo Rivers, Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:30:00 PM
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By John smith
Format:Blu-ray
This movie is so over the top but very fun and entertaining I am so happy i picked it up
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