DVD Review: REPO CHICK
 By Jonathan Stryker

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Mar 7, 2011, 4:30 PM

Alex Cox is best known to audiences for directing REPO MAN, SID AND NANCY, STRAIGHT TO HELL, WALKER, and has also done acting duties in nearly thirty films.   A new of his has just come to DVD and it's off-the-wall and highly enjoyable. 

Here's the lowdown from the back of the DVD:

"Spoiled rich girl Pixxi De La Chasse has been disinherited from her family due to her numerous arrests for bad driving, her failure to get a job and her overall lack of some semblance of a responsible life.  When her car gets repossessed, Pixxi ends up getting hired by the repo men Arizona Gray and Aguas, and she soon becomes the best repo chick around with the help of her entourage - punk girl confidante, model-looks bodyguard and flaming hair stylist.  While on the hunt for some antique railroad cars which carry a million-dollar bounty reward (also being sought out by a secret government agency!), clueless Pixxi ends up on a wacky train ride which is actually a plot by a terrorist organization.  If their demands for the criminalization of gold are not met, then the train (whose caboose is carrying long-missile growler bombs from the Soviet Communist era!) is headed straight for downtown Los Angeles."

The complaints leveled at the film concerning how it was filmed are also what make it unique and fun to watch: the sets and background are all superimposed since all of the actors were photographed in front of a green screen.  Locomotives are represented by Lionel train sets, and everything in the film is artificial yielding a cartoonish feel to the film.  Whether this was a conscious effort and an artistic choice from the get-go or the only way to go due to a low-budget, I don't know, but it works marvelously.  Xander Berkeley and Karen Black appear in the film's opening, hamming it up as Pixxi's (Janet Jonet) parents who try their hardest to put her on the right path.  Sporting blonde locks, Pixxi resembles Playboy's Miss May 1996, Shauna Sand.  The characters that follow are exaggerated, caricatured, and over-the-top in their dialogue and demeanor. 

It's not the sort of film that one would expect from Mr. Cox, and it is poised to divide fans into the love it or hate it camps.  The disc possesses a trailer and a nearly half-hour making-of featurette, though I would have liked to have had a commentary by the director to discuss the film's genesis. 

Overall, a fun flick!

 


 

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