City Limits

From the team who wrote and produced Android (one of the real sleepers of 1982), comes this low-budget teenage anthem. This time out, a plague has destroyed most of the population, leaving only a handful of children to run the city. Two motorcycle groups, The Clippers and The D.A.s have split the town down the center, and except for the occasional non-fatal skirmish (guns are forbidden) share a relatively peaceful coexistence. Until The D.A.'s are won over by the Sunya Corporation (adults who want to re-civilize the city), headed up by a wonderful corporate villain (Robby Benson, a great casting choice). The Sunya adults are, of course, not adverse to the idea of using guns to settle disputes. City Limits is not quite the follow-up to Android we were hoping for (it is excessively, though not graphically, violent for the rating), but it's still head and shoulders above most other films in this genre. The actors (especially Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, and Kim Cattrall) carry off the fairly predictable plot with panache, and there is a fair amount of successful satire here (the gang's policy decisions are made only after consulting a relevant issue of Insectman--in the future, the comic-book, one of the lowliest forms of literature, has been elevated to the ultimate reference tool!) Recommended.