(Gory equals glory with lots of guts!) Saying Turbo Kid is Mad Max on BMX-bikes may be a quick description, and not exactly misleading, but it's also selling the film a bit short. For starters it fails to show Turbo Kid's true inspirations: 1980's "young adult" films, and the cheap Italian Mad Max knock-offs which swamped video-stores after the runaway worldwide success of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Turbo Kid started life as a proposed segment for the first ABCs of Death film, and though it ended as a finalist, it lost to T is for Toilet. Well, lost... Turbo Kid was popular enough to get made into a full-length feature, and the transition didn't exactly harm the film, as it proceeded to pick...
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