Turbo Kid Review

With Ready Player One coming out this weekend I'm sure a lot of people are excited to see the many references to 80s media and pop culture that we just cant seem to get enough of now. So in honor of it I'm going to talk about another love letter to 80s action movies with Turbo Kid. When I fist saw the title, I thought it was just a dumb kids action movie that with a very low budget, well that is exactly what it is suppose to be. Turbo kid is one big homage to all the ridiculous, violent action movies of the 80s that is totally aware of how silly it is.

It takes place the the post-apocalyptic future of 1997 where a boy has to save his girlfriend and defeat an evil warlord by taking on the persona of his favorite comic book hero Turbo Man. It is a very tongue and cheek movie with a lot of silly things, like it's suppose to be a Mad Max style future with a lot of tough warriors but everyone is riding little bikes. Even the fight scenes are very overtop and ridiculously violent. It's on such a low budget that you can pretty much tell how it's made but i think that is the idea. I might think this sounds like just a silly nonsensical movie, which it it is, but it is actually a lot better than it needed to be. This could have easily just been a dumb movie, but it seems to be made by people who grew up with these kinds of movies and understand what we like about them. It makes a lot of clever references to the films of the 80's, even with the villain played by Michael Ironside, who you can tell is having a ton of fun with it. Even the music is very reminiscent of that period with a lot of techno.

This is the kind of movie I like to watch in my spare time, just a silly fun action movie. It's a lot like watching any old cheesy 80s movie you got to have some suspension of disbelief and just have fun with it. If you're looking for something that you can watch and not think too much about than you should check it out.