DVD
REVIEW: Yo-Yo Girl Cop
07/19/07
Yo-yo Girl Cop is based on
the manga series Sukeban Deka by Shinji Wada. In Yo-yo Girl
Cop, Saki Asamiya is forced, by a special police force, to
take the role of the next Yo-yo girl. She is told that if
she helps them with their investigation, they will help her
mother with her trial back in the United States. Apparently,
Saki’s mother was a former Yo-yo girl and Saki exhibits an
aggressive personality that leads them to believe she is
qualified to be the next deadly yoist. Yo-yo girl is sent to
investigate a private school where a website, Enola Gay, is
teaching the kids how to create bombs. She infiltrates the
school as a student and begins to make friends and narrow
down the people involved. However, she only has 72-hours to
track down the origins of the website before the mysterious
countdown on the website expires leading to an unknown
event.
What can be said about a movie whose antagonist states near
the end of the film that he did it all for fun. After making
me invest an hour and a half, I was excepting something
more. A sex scandal, a murder, at this point even an evil
twin twist would have sufficed. Don’t get me wrong there are
a lot of movies where the antagonist is just plain crazy and
whose intentions are merely to satisfy their need for
excitement, but those movies let you know from the get go.
Yo-yo Girl Cop fools you into thinking there’s a point to
all that is going on, but in the end it is just a setup and
when the setup collapses, the movie deteriorate into a
showcase of meaningless action. In one scene, out of no
where Yo-yo girl finds a superhero suit and like something
out of a music video prances around for the camera.
I really didn’t like this movie. The plot makes little sense
and doesn’t have much of a point. The main thing here seems
to be to get shots of girls fighting with Yo-yos. This is
the kind of movie Quentin Tarantino could probably take and
make a master piece out of . The Yo-yo girl does remind me
of Kill Bill’s Gogo Yubari. So do yourself a favor and
unless you have a fetish for fighting Yo-yo girls skip this
movie.
VIDEO:
Anamorphic Widescreen -1.85:1.
AUDIO:
Dolby
Digital 5.1 Surround - English and Japanise
Subtitles - English Spanish - Optional
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By Brad Peterson
brad@smartcine.com
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