The story behind Alex Cox’s “Repo Chick” is more interesting than the movie itself: It screened at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, then vanished.
Now it is being resurrected for brief theatrical runs here and in LA before going to DVD/Blu-ray land.
Cox insists that “Repo Chick” is not a sequel to his 1984 cult hit “Repo Man,” with Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez. “You wouldn’t have to see ‘Repo Man’ to make sense of [‘Chick’],” he insists. Let me add that nothing would help make this dud understandable.
It’s the story of Pixxi De La Chasse (Jaclyn Jonet), a bottle blonde not unlike Paris Hilton.
When her family disinherits her because of her lousy driving record, she takes a job repossessing cars, homes and shopping centers. The laughs are few and far between, and Cox’s attempts to tie in terrorism and the economic crisis miss the mark.
Now 56, Cox seems to have lost his biting satirical humor. Of marginal interest in “Repo Chick” is a small part by Chloe Webb, who played the slain groupie in Cox’s “Sid and Nancy” (1986).