I haven't done one of these in awhile and this weekened I watched movies on my couch cause I felt sick. So of course I thought I'd do another review. This one I saw last night and it was something else. You are all probably chopping at the bit, so here we go...







Trailer


Yes, some of the text is all sorts of wierd with matching the movie


YoYo Girl Cop


Plot: A website appeared online. It contains information on making bombs and all about troubled teens finding support and friends and the like. Then a timer appears. 72 hours. What happens at the end of the timer? There is a good chance the city will be destroyed. The website appears to stem from an "elitist" high school. Who is talented enough to infiltrate this high school of teen "punks?" Ummm, some little girl?

This girl gets picked up in the US on a bad greencard and transported back to her home, Japan. She is a good fighter and her mom is too. Her mom is about to undergo a trial in the US though. In order to get her mom out of the trial, she must go undercover as a transfer student and find who is responsible for the site and bombs and suicides and all that jazz, all in under 72 hours. The reason why she is choosen is cause she is a teen and only teens can understand what is going on in teens minds. (They actually said that in the movie.)

So what is this young lady armed with if she ever needs to fight anyone? A deadly, steel Yo-Yo. NO JOKE!


Review: This was an interesting one. I mean there has to be a cry for this in Japan right? Who would think of something like this? Anyways, the movie starts off pretty good. It has some cute asian chick running down a street with a bomb strapped to her. Why she doesn't take it off is beyond me. After it goes off (it is the beginning, of course she dies!), we get introduced to the next cute girl. But this one has a bite. She breaks loose and beats all these guys up. It was great.

Then she finds a kid and stops and she gets captured again. Blah blah blah, along comes the story. Cereal, I was interested in what they would do here but they just dragged it along and didn't pull me in. Maybe they tried to be overly complex? It could've been the fact that I was sicky and wanted something I didn't think about but the movie is about a chick with a steel yo-yo trying to find kids who run a website to destroy things. I want frickin' action!



Yes, that is a yo-yo vs. a sword.


When they do get to the battles, they are fun, short but fun. With a chick with a yo-yo fighting guys with swords and guns, how can that not be good or fun? Don't worry though, for you yo-yo-phobes there are some fighting without the stringed toy. And then we have another little "epic" battle between these twos ladies.





Seriously, there has got to be a fetish for this! How else would someone think to put leather and spandex fighting yo-yo girls together? Don't know, don't care, just give them a medal? But back to the fight, This fight is one of the most interesting. How would two toy-wielding babes battle? Well watch this movie to have that question answered. One thing is for sure, I bet you won't look at this child's toy the same way again!

You might have noticed that the main chick has a new suit. Along the way, somewhere way back there, a "leather suit" was designed and made for our main character. That is why she is in the leather get-up. Hey, I'm not complaining! I don't know if she got it from some special place or from the police, regardless it is strong and weak. It can withstand bullets but it can easily be cut by a katana blade. Now I am not 100% Mr. Knowledge on blades and swords but is this possible? Can a sword cut through leather that has bullet-proof spray on it? I guess we now know...


Conclusion: This movie has some wierd continuity issues. Besides that one with the leather/spandex armor I just mentioned, they tell the girl they have 72 hours but then they look at the clock timer and it said 62 hours. I am sorry but when you are talking about how much time until city destruction, 10 hours is CRUCIAL! And there is one girl who is pretty much "unconcious" and then later she is perfectly fine. Huh, how? There are some others but by know you have an idea of this. It isn't overrun with continuity issues like some other movie.

The plot isn't really hard to follow, just nothing that kept me enthralled. I just kept waiting for the action to start up. Then it did, and then it ended.

This movie is proof to me that Japan is good at somethings and they should stick to them: scary looking kids, martial arts fighting, cute girls, scary movies, and Trigun. Don't try to deviatate from what you are good at and throw a plot at us! Show us the fighting. I want to see a movie packed full of chicks and their Yo-Yo's flying around and hitting things.




My Rating: 6 - A decent rent for lovers of chicks fighting? You could do worse. MUST rent for those who have this fetish.