The Toxic Avenger

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The Toxic Avenger

Made on a low budget with a lot of brains, laughs and a complete disregard for good taste, this film finally makes a landing from the previously faceless Troma film group - becoming a flagship character of sorts. The picture features a nerdy, hopeless outcast who is reborn as a muscular, mutated green warrior with a profound, theatrical delivery. Stylized violence, mainstream attitudes about beauty and success and simplistic "Hollywood" moralizing are fodder for satire in this well made, and frankly bizarre film from Lloyd Kaufman's company.

This film is one of Troma's finest films that deserves to be a cult classic, the acting is bad yet funny since it's a horror comedy, the gore effects are good and the soundtrack is nice with some memorable songs like "Body talk". The fight scenes are pretty cool like the scene in the Taco Resteraunt that had some neat fighting moves. Some scenes did show the same scenes over again to pad the film up but that isn't too bad since they don't drag for too long. The make up for The Toxic Avenger is good and the effects for the gore are cool. The Toxic Avenger is one of those cult classic's that must be seen for some humour, horror, nudity and gore. Check this out.

Troma's best to this day, I still believe. Actually, I haven't seen the vast majority of their movies, but this has got to be the one on top. I love this! Deservedly the companies' most widely recognized film, it can't be ignored for it's willingness to go ahead and do whatever the hell it wants! The acting is completely ridiculous, but when was the last time you had so much fun watching??? The effects are pretty good, nice and gooey in all the right parts....If you've got a special place in your heart for satire, or just like bad, goofy movies, this is the one to see. All the pieces fall into just the right places.

My 10/10 rating assumes that you like this movie before you've seen it. "The Toxic Avenger" is the ultimate movie for anyone into 1980s schlock. No doubt it was intended mainly for teenage boys (I lost track of how many naked women there were here). But overall, it's great to see a movie never self-conscious or anything like that (I mean, come on, look at that ridiculous outfit that the title character wears); the movie's really gross and proud of it. Troma must still be proud of this flick. Oh, and of course Marisa Tomei has a small appearance in the movie. Who ever would have guessed that one of the people starring in this would later win an Oscar?

Rated R for Strong Violence/Gore,Sexuality,Nudity and Language. The Toxic Avenger is one of those "so bad its good" Troma made films.This is the only Troma film I have seen fully though I saw a bit of Class Of Nukem High.I saw this a while back on the channel Drive In Classics.The Toxic Avenger is a great movie.Yes it is cheaply made but it has a great mix of gore and comedy.The movie is about a geek who one day falls into a batch of toxic waste.He then becomes this deformed "superhero".He basically then fights crime while befriending a blind girl.The Toxic Avenger spawned three sequels, none of which I have seen.The Toxic Avenger is a great movie and if you like those entertaining "so bad its good" films, then I recommend it.

The king of trash movies. It's so effortlessly entertaining that things that should be offensive are easily laughed off. It's the only movie I can think of that can make a young child getting run over by a car side splittingly hilarious.

You always have to take Troma films with a grain of salt, and that's exactly what I did. I enjoyed this film quite a bit. Though it's a typical B-movie, the premise is creative and I actually felt sympathy for the character of Melvin before his mutation. I know what it's like to be the underdog, so I was able to somewhat relate to him. So while some may have laughed at his quirky antics, I was too busy feeling sympathy for pool little Melvin. The film is filled with quirky, low-brow humor, which often works. I just felt that the premise wore thin after a while, and that's when the film seemed to simply go through the motions. Despite that, I had a good time and can understand why this is the film that put Troma on the map. So if you're in the mood for a funny, low-budget, low-brow horror-comedy, then please check out "The Toxic Avenger." My score: 6 (out of 10)