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01-02-2003, 10:43 PM
Characters
The Toxic Avenger: former buck-toothed geek turned lumpy-headed mutant with a heart of gold and a deadly mop; the sworn protector of Tromaville.
The Noxious Offender: Toxie's evil alter ego, he favors gold neck chains, Nazism, and grotesque sexual experimentation. His penile implant is not to be fucked with [pun not intended]
LardAss/Chester: Toxie's sidekick, his superpower is eating things, and he beats up villains with a loaf of french bread. His alter ego Chester is a particle physicist reduced to giving blowjobs for money and snacks.
Tito and Sweety-Honey: two "tards" that Toxie accidentally takes into Amortville with him. Tito calls himself the "Retarded Rebel", does a lot of drugs, and likes porn. Sweety-Honey really is sweet, and ends up falling in love with Tito despite his deficiencies.
Pompey: a black guy who is dragged behind a pickup truck until there's nothing left but his head, but he still lives to the end of the movie, when he decides to become Tito's sidekick [Tito decides to stay in Amortville and become the Retarded Avenger].
The Superheroes: Banded together to fight Noxie, they consist of Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, who by now is a pathetic horny drunk; Mad Cow Boy, a cow/man creature who gives rousing patriotic speeches entirely in moos; Dolphin Man, who is exactly how he sounds; Master Bator, a cross between bad rapper Master G and serial rapist John Bator; and Vibrator, a skanky chick with silver skin who has a giant sex toy as a weapon.
Sara/Claire: Toxie's and Noxie's girlfriend, she is rather stupid and blind in Toxie's world, and a deaf, abused slave with rotten teeth in Noxie's world. Claire ends up with Chester, her old boyfriend, and Sara gives birth to Toxie's son.
Plot
When the Tromaville School For The Very Special is overrun by a gang calling themselves the Diaper Mafia, Toxie comes in to save the day, in his own particular fashion: namely, bloody mass murder of the gun-and-pacifier-sporting psychos. When a bomb attached to one of them goes off, though, Toxie and his two retarded friends are catapulted through a split in the space-time continuum and end up in the Bizarro World version of Tromaville, Amortville. This split occurred because a bomb was let off in a school by Noxie at the exact same time, and he in turn gets sent to Tromaville, where he promptly teams up with the repressed-Nazi police chief and begins a reign of terror, such as massacreing the mayor and his staff at his mansion, Tromadu [actually it's the Playboy mansion] Meanwhile, Toxie and his allies have to find a way to get back home, while simultaneously fighting the evil versions of Tromaville's superheroes, amonst others; the ticking clock is that Sara has been impregnated by both Toxie and Noxie, and the good and evil fetuses are battling inside her womb, which will cause her to explode if she can't abort one of them. Will our heroes succeed? Buy the sceener copy like I did and find out.
Review
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the funniest, most entertaining B- movie since, well, since Lloyd Kaufman's last movie. This is the first time I have actually laughed aloud at the jokes in a Troma film. The script writing just keeps getting better and better; while I immensely enjoyed Terror Firmer imensely, it seemed to me that it's goal was to cram as much disgusting offensiveness into one movie as they could, built around the flimsiest of plot-lines. Citizen Toxie, however, is firmly rooted in an involving story with memorbale, funny, even sometimes touching characters. This doesn't mean Troma's gone soft, though; far, far from it. There's enough bouncing boobs and squirting blood here to fill a dozen '70's grindhouse flicks, as well as very politically-incorrect jokes just crammed right up the old wazoo [good example: the abortion clinic with coat hangers all over the operating room, but they're plastic, so it's safe]. The whole movie, if I may steal something from another review I read of it, is as if a teenage nerd who has spent way too much time indoors mashed together his best issues of Superman, Mad Magazine, Fangoria, and Playboy, then whirled them all around in a blender while his punk/metal music collection blasted in the backround. I'd even go far as to say this is better than Toxie Part 1, which, for all its entertainment value, was quite hampered by truly hideous acting and some sequences that just didn't work. This time, though, everything works. Everything Lloyd and his team set out to do, they pulled off. If there is any justice in the world, Citizen Toxie should become the new millenium's first cult masterpiece for freaks and drunken college students everywhere; and even if you're not in those camps, take a look anyway when it comes to DVD next year. If you can get past what I've listed below, [and if you can't, why are you even on this site?] you will find a truly well-written and directed comedy that was born about thirty years too late: the drive-ins would have had lines stretching miles for this thing.
Notable Moments of Sex
The lesbian scene between Sara and a some girl with blue hair that Noxie picked up off the streets; Real Bikini Television; Toxie accidentally gets transported onto the set of a porn flick called Missionary Impossible; Vibrator is always playing with her own weapon; a female Diaper Mafia member beats a retarded kid about the face with her boobs, then rapes him [that's the only way I can describe it]; Toxie getting it on with Sara [he gives off steam and drools green slime when he cums]. On the other front, two guys are shown full-frontal with Mr. Winky waving around [one of them is about seventy years old, the only truly disgusting moment in the whole movie for me], and a gay guy shows his ass before jumping on Toxie and humping him. Oh yeah, and we also learn Sgt. Kabukiman has the same hairstyle in his pants as he has on his head.
Notable Moments of Violence
Mostly concentrated in the first and last reels, like Dawn of the Dead. There are people getting shot in the head and torso, with very big, exaggerated squib effects; many heads crushed under and between various objects; a guy's arms ripped off; a guy stabbed through the mouth with a crucifix; tongues ripped out; a guy's finger ground down to a point in a pencil sharpener, then used to stab his eye out; mop handle impalements; a mutant creature run through an industrial meat grinder; syringe needles thrown like ninja stars; a throat ripping, a face ripping, and that aforementioned penile implant, well, I won't spoil it. You have been warned
The Toxic Avenger: former buck-toothed geek turned lumpy-headed mutant with a heart of gold and a deadly mop; the sworn protector of Tromaville.
The Noxious Offender: Toxie's evil alter ego, he favors gold neck chains, Nazism, and grotesque sexual experimentation. His penile implant is not to be fucked with [pun not intended]
LardAss/Chester: Toxie's sidekick, his superpower is eating things, and he beats up villains with a loaf of french bread. His alter ego Chester is a particle physicist reduced to giving blowjobs for money and snacks.
Tito and Sweety-Honey: two "tards" that Toxie accidentally takes into Amortville with him. Tito calls himself the "Retarded Rebel", does a lot of drugs, and likes porn. Sweety-Honey really is sweet, and ends up falling in love with Tito despite his deficiencies.
Pompey: a black guy who is dragged behind a pickup truck until there's nothing left but his head, but he still lives to the end of the movie, when he decides to become Tito's sidekick [Tito decides to stay in Amortville and become the Retarded Avenger].
The Superheroes: Banded together to fight Noxie, they consist of Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, who by now is a pathetic horny drunk; Mad Cow Boy, a cow/man creature who gives rousing patriotic speeches entirely in moos; Dolphin Man, who is exactly how he sounds; Master Bator, a cross between bad rapper Master G and serial rapist John Bator; and Vibrator, a skanky chick with silver skin who has a giant sex toy as a weapon.
Sara/Claire: Toxie's and Noxie's girlfriend, she is rather stupid and blind in Toxie's world, and a deaf, abused slave with rotten teeth in Noxie's world. Claire ends up with Chester, her old boyfriend, and Sara gives birth to Toxie's son.
Plot
When the Tromaville School For The Very Special is overrun by a gang calling themselves the Diaper Mafia, Toxie comes in to save the day, in his own particular fashion: namely, bloody mass murder of the gun-and-pacifier-sporting psychos. When a bomb attached to one of them goes off, though, Toxie and his two retarded friends are catapulted through a split in the space-time continuum and end up in the Bizarro World version of Tromaville, Amortville. This split occurred because a bomb was let off in a school by Noxie at the exact same time, and he in turn gets sent to Tromaville, where he promptly teams up with the repressed-Nazi police chief and begins a reign of terror, such as massacreing the mayor and his staff at his mansion, Tromadu [actually it's the Playboy mansion] Meanwhile, Toxie and his allies have to find a way to get back home, while simultaneously fighting the evil versions of Tromaville's superheroes, amonst others; the ticking clock is that Sara has been impregnated by both Toxie and Noxie, and the good and evil fetuses are battling inside her womb, which will cause her to explode if she can't abort one of them. Will our heroes succeed? Buy the sceener copy like I did and find out.
Review
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the funniest, most entertaining B- movie since, well, since Lloyd Kaufman's last movie. This is the first time I have actually laughed aloud at the jokes in a Troma film. The script writing just keeps getting better and better; while I immensely enjoyed Terror Firmer imensely, it seemed to me that it's goal was to cram as much disgusting offensiveness into one movie as they could, built around the flimsiest of plot-lines. Citizen Toxie, however, is firmly rooted in an involving story with memorbale, funny, even sometimes touching characters. This doesn't mean Troma's gone soft, though; far, far from it. There's enough bouncing boobs and squirting blood here to fill a dozen '70's grindhouse flicks, as well as very politically-incorrect jokes just crammed right up the old wazoo [good example: the abortion clinic with coat hangers all over the operating room, but they're plastic, so it's safe]. The whole movie, if I may steal something from another review I read of it, is as if a teenage nerd who has spent way too much time indoors mashed together his best issues of Superman, Mad Magazine, Fangoria, and Playboy, then whirled them all around in a blender while his punk/metal music collection blasted in the backround. I'd even go far as to say this is better than Toxie Part 1, which, for all its entertainment value, was quite hampered by truly hideous acting and some sequences that just didn't work. This time, though, everything works. Everything Lloyd and his team set out to do, they pulled off. If there is any justice in the world, Citizen Toxie should become the new millenium's first cult masterpiece for freaks and drunken college students everywhere; and even if you're not in those camps, take a look anyway when it comes to DVD next year. If you can get past what I've listed below, [and if you can't, why are you even on this site?] you will find a truly well-written and directed comedy that was born about thirty years too late: the drive-ins would have had lines stretching miles for this thing.
Notable Moments of Sex
The lesbian scene between Sara and a some girl with blue hair that Noxie picked up off the streets; Real Bikini Television; Toxie accidentally gets transported onto the set of a porn flick called Missionary Impossible; Vibrator is always playing with her own weapon; a female Diaper Mafia member beats a retarded kid about the face with her boobs, then rapes him [that's the only way I can describe it]; Toxie getting it on with Sara [he gives off steam and drools green slime when he cums]. On the other front, two guys are shown full-frontal with Mr. Winky waving around [one of them is about seventy years old, the only truly disgusting moment in the whole movie for me], and a gay guy shows his ass before jumping on Toxie and humping him. Oh yeah, and we also learn Sgt. Kabukiman has the same hairstyle in his pants as he has on his head.
Notable Moments of Violence
Mostly concentrated in the first and last reels, like Dawn of the Dead. There are people getting shot in the head and torso, with very big, exaggerated squib effects; many heads crushed under and between various objects; a guy's arms ripped off; a guy stabbed through the mouth with a crucifix; tongues ripped out; a guy's finger ground down to a point in a pencil sharpener, then used to stab his eye out; mop handle impalements; a mutant creature run through an industrial meat grinder; syringe needles thrown like ninja stars; a throat ripping, a face ripping, and that aforementioned penile implant, well, I won't spoil it. You have been warned