Purely Joyful Movie!

An action-packed slog

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Only in Japan..."Yo Yo Girl Cop" was actually really cheesy, but it worked on a great level. The action was nice, over-the-top and outrageous as you'd find only in Japanese movies.The storyline was equally cheesy and silly. A young girl is recruited by some odd police force to infiltrate a school, and she is given a yo-yo as a weapon. A yo-yo! Yeah, cool... So it is no secret that it is not the story that drives the movie, but the action keeps the engine running.Despite it being a non-plausible story and cheesy movie, then "Yo Yo Girl Cop" was actually great entertainment. It is a total no-brainer with lots of adrenaline and action. The fighting scenes were actually well choreographed and were nice to look at."Yo Yo Girl Cop" is actually worth sitting down to watch if you have an hour and a half to spare. When I saw that it was starring J-Pop sensation Aya Matsuura, I was a bit skeptical, as I am not much fan of singers turning to the movies, but she actually pulled off her role quite well.

... but the good news is: It's self-awareness of that! It's not another "Azumi", in trying to be dramatic with a premise that is just so outrageously over the top (see the English title, I won't spoil anything from the story), that it would only hurt the movie, if it'd take itself seriously. As I said, there are other movies who do that, but not this fun ride (if you let yourself free and enjoy it, you'll have a good time).It's also recommended to watch it with a few friends. OK (almost) any movie will improve while watching it with friends, or at least the experience most likely will, but this could be best described as "Boys Nights out" movie!

If camp is your thing, and you don't mind character actors whose characters are never fully explained, and you want the FLASH and BANG, then this is the movie for you. Total tongue-and-cheek piece of work, especially the costumes (just seeing the main character's final costume is worth the price of the film!).Grown-ups and teens are treated as distinct species here, and the film handles the theme of teen loneliness and alienation with lots of humor. But it's a little long, and sometimes the film focuses on quirks and gimmicks at the expense of plot--I know, I know, it's camp, but even camp needs a plot!

I picked this up in Chinatown as an import with no subtitles because the box art looked cool. I didn't know its out here on DVD in two weeks. Then again what I paid for it is better than the 27 buck list price.Okay, managa/anime sourced film about a tough young girl in New York returned to Japan when they find out she's been there illegally. Dumped on the streets she's given a chance to help "the Police" find out who's behind a plot to blow up kids in a school and possibly blow up the city as well. She's given a school girl uniform and a killer yo-yo with which to protect herself. (or something to that effect) Made by the director of the second Battle Royal this is an improvement over that film, while at the same time borrowing some of the angst and visual flourishes of that film. This is a good little movie that movies along even when you don't understand most of whats being said. The action is good, its mostly martial arts until the final confrontation, and several of the fights are better than many of the fights in recent American action films.There are a couple of problems for me. Allowing that I'm watching this in a language not my own the plotting of the villain makes little sense. There's something about the plan that suddenly peters out about an hour in. As I said I couldn't really understand what was being said but there was this sudden WTF moment when I suddenly had the feeling I missed about 10 minutes.(I hope this will be cleared up when I see this in English dub or sub).The other problem is that the yo-yo of the title doesn't really show up until the last half hour. Sure there are a few tentative uses, but mostly its seen just in the final battle with the female baddie. It also doesn't help that the battle is also a tad anti-climatic after all thats gone before. (I won't go into the fact that the battlefield changes a couple of times to work against our heroine- like when a bad magically appears for her to trip over) Definitely watchable-assuming they don't blow any English dub (The wrong dub will kill this so go for subs)-just opt for rental or cable.