A love letter to 80’s post apocalyptic movies, Turbo Kid has a killer synth soundtrack, quite a few laugh out loud moments, and some awesome low budget production design. The film is based off of a short film that was later turned into this feature length movie. As one reviewer said, this is basically Mad Max on bicycles. That’s pretty spot on but there’s actually more to it with references to classic video games, comic gore (think the black knight sword battle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail), and even some random android references.
This takes inspiration from films like Mad Max, The Last Starfighter, and Solarbabies. Sometimes, it’s a bit too derivative and works too hard to try and copy those past films. It would have been even better if they had made this more of their own but I get what they were going for. Some of the spraying blood was pretty hilarious but other times it went almost too far away from the movies it was trying to copy and might have been better without it. The best parts were any scenes with the Turbo Kid and his girlfriend. If you love those 80’s post apocalyptic movies, you have to check this out. The soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission.