Mutant Girls Squad is the story of Rin (Yumi Sugimoto), a girl born a mutant, who ends up an orphan and being hunted by those that want to exterminate her kind from the face of the Earth. Luckily she meets some fellow mutants. Unluckily, those mutants hold some pretty out there values and opinions. Expect a lot of fake blood to be spilled.

The directors of this film have worked on such films as The Machine Girl, Azumi and RoboGeisha, and it shows. This is a gore fest of a film, filled to the brim with flying body parts, high pressure blood and needlessly graphic body horror imagery. All in good fun, of course, and if you're a fan of the genre, you're going to love the exploitation on show here.

I also had no real problems with the story. The three main girls had distinct personalities, the setting was suitably bat guano insane, and the action was fun to witness. The main bad guy was pretty cringy, but in a way that oddly fit the whole aesthetic of the film.

That being said, this is probably the most perverse Japanese gore film I've seen, and I've seen some good ones. There are films that might have had more private parts on display, but even they were more... I want to say tasteful, but that doesn't really apply with any of these films. Less... childishly blatant, perhaps?

Still, if you've liked, for example The Machine Girl or Tokyo Gore Police or Ichi the Killer, this is definitely worth checking out. It's not quite as good as those three, but it's still a high octane experience unlike anything seen in Western media.

This movie is a typical "tongue and cheek" Japanese satire of X-Men. The film features ridiculous governmental soldiers wearing nose cannons, borderline offensive content that may not be suitable for everybody. The type of silly effects, when a body gets a head or limb chopped off, 10 gallons of vivid red blood issues from the wound.

The story is absurd in the extreme, when the protagonist Rin has her 16th birthday, she not only discovers she is a mutant but both her parents are murdered by the government! This alone is a prime example of how silly and elaborate the story quickly becomes. I guess one could draw a comparison to Peter Parker getting bit by a spider and his Uncle being shot all at once. It would seem that not only is it a requirement to have superpowers one must also have a super tragedy to re-examine their part in the universe. Rin in this aspect is no exception, with people from her home town wanting to skin her and mount her on display at the local mall. Then meeting a weird group of girls led by a slightly demonic kabuki figure.

Lots of cheesy effects, blood, guts, and gore, makes this movie a laugh riot. The boss fights are very confusing with the viewer wondering who they should be cheering on to victory. With weapons like an ass chainsaw and boob swords this is not a family friendly film. I viewed this subtitled on Netflix this month.