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| Year of first release: 2015 | |
| Director: François Simard, Anouk Whissell | |
| Actors: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Edwin Wright, Aaron Jeffery | |
| Country: CDN, NZ, USA | |
| Genre: Action, Adventure | |
| Conditions of visioning: 20.05.2018, Streaming, French version | |
| Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic future, the Kid (Chambers) survives alone and hidden in a room with comic books and gadgets. A girl named Apple (Leboeuf) imposes herself as his friend. When she gets kidnapped, the Kid armed with an ancient turbocharged weapon starts a quest against Zeus (Ironside), the sadistic and self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland. | |
| Review: Following the experience of one Godzilla I continued to look for some rare movies on youtube and found Turbo Kid. The story is as basic as Mad Max. Rescue the girl from the bad guy who has something to do with the heroe's tragedy. The originality lies on the creativity for the scenery, the costumes. Reminding me the Filipino movies such as Resiklo and a range of Filipino cheap movies. The main villain Zeus is supported by a greatly designed villain, Skeletron (Wright). The Kid and Apple are supported by the Solo-looking Frederic (Jeffery). The constellation of characters has some parallel with Star Wars. Zeus/Emperor and Skeletron/Darth Vador for the dark side of the force. The Kid/Luke and Frederic/Han Solo for the other. The effects are indeed cheap, but compensated by the camera movement and the cut, so that the BMX bikes look seldom ridiculous. And that is good because the remaining scenes have gore or 80s touch. Globally I found the the effects cheap but clever implemented and giving not only the nostalgy of the 80s but also a funny effect. For the fans and the curious, you can also watch the original short called T is for Turbo here. |
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Rating: 6 /10
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Turbo kid (2015)
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I had heard a lot of good about this movie when it toured the Fantastic Film Festival a few years ago. I definitely have to watch it, especially since Michael Ironside (Scanners, Total Recall, Starship Troopers) is maybe my favorite B-series supporting role actor.
ReplyDeleteThe title of the short movie that inspired it, T is for Turbo, intrigued me and I found out that it was in fact presented at a contest to fill in the "T" segment of the alphabetic horror anthology The ABCs of Death. T is for Toilet won but T is for Turbo arrived third and grew over the years to become the most popular of all. All the shorts presented at this contest are listed here and many can be viewed online for free.
For more Youtube free movies do not miss or re-watch Kung Fury.
fasten your seat-belts, kung fury 2 is coming up this year !
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