Yo-Yo Girl Cop is one of those import martial art films that fools you in the trailer. The trailer shows you flashy fighting, some risqué uniformed school girls, and a some cute Asian girls that you hope will be mud wrestling by the end of the film. These import are what they are - badly written martial arts films with a dash of special effects and some suggestive adult themes geared towards men ages 18 - 45. The problem is that this film doesn't deliver even on these most basic concepts.
The biggest problem I have with this martial arts film is that the choreography is simply awful and the character development is so lousy that by the end of the film you almost want to root for the bad guys. There are no good guys in the film basically - they are all either ignorant, cruel or just plain lame.
But before we jump in and out of what is wrong with the film, let's give you a little bit of the plot:
Yo-Yo Girl Cop focuses on a young girl who is apparently gifted in the art of fighting whi is recruited by a super secret agency to infiltrate a high school and find the source of a website ('Enola Gay') that is apparently threatening a very terrible biological terrorist attack. K reluctantly takes on the job from this agency headed by a fellow whose bad acting is only overshadowed by his terrible hair cut. The mullet looks like it was the victim of a flash fire or someone fooling around with an aerosol can and a match. Bad hair aside, this guy's acting fits right into the rest of the film - it's awful.
The main character is moody and dark even while she's supposed to be laying low and finding out what's going on. So what does she do on her first day in this new school? Picks a fight with the evil and most popular girl in the school. In addition to being the belle of this school's ball, this girl is also apparently a key member of this terrorist group which is also apparently comprised completely of teens. The plot is hard to follow because it is jigsawed together in a way that doesn't make any real sense.
The plot unravels quickly, the characters and the dialogue gets more and more ridiculous with each passing minute. But through it all the most important part of the film is really the martial arts. Too bad the martial arts in this film are just lousy. Even the scenes with the fabled special weapon are weak at best. You'd expect a girl named Yo-Yo Girl Cop to know how to use a yo-yo, but she spends more time hitting herself in the face, than actaully hitting her opponent.
Unfortunately all you can do as this 90 minute film tortures your senses is to simply laugh, laugh.. and laugh some more. At the end of the day, Yo-Yo Girl Cop is a ridiculously silly movie that has a weaker plot than an episode of Power Rangers and martial arts action that isn't worth watching. I'd recommend ignoring this movie altogether unless you're some kind of masochist..
