The Toxic Avenger travels to Tokyo to search for his father and leaves his home Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation.
After five years Toxie makes his return to our screens.
Toxie has now become the saviour of Tromaville and has cleaned the streets of crime, but that’s all about to change. Now if you’re aware of Troma then you know what to expect when it comes to sequels and it’s no different here, you can’t say it’s not entertaining.
In this feature the gore is more over the top, which for us viewers is fantastic. The splatter in this feature is just so much fun and adds to the corny vibe it’s so well known for.
Unfortunately as much fun as it is it just doesn’t come close to the previous film, the original had a fresh, original spark to it that people loved, by now it had been done by so many other films and personally I just couldn’t get myself to like the James Bond spoof but I’ve never been a fan of 007.
Like I said with Troma you know what you’re getting, this is a perfect example with bad acting, bad writing, bad everything yet you can’t help but love it and re-watch it. For a film that should be so laughable (in a bad way) it ends up becoming lovable, so strange.
“The Toxic Avenger Part II” is a fun feature and it gets away with a-lot, just don’t expect it to be as good as the first feature.
Miscellaneous facts about the film:
John Altamura was fired during production according to Llyod Kaufman and Ron Fazio for “abusing his authority”. Ron Fazio, who plays an executive of Apokalypse Inc., was originally asked to only to be the Toxic Avenger’s distant shot double . However, after Altamura’s dismissal, Fazio was asked to play the part and provide the character’s voice. Producers kept the scenes with John Altamura, hence both men are credited with the title role.
Michael Jai White’s acting debut.
Gô Nagai has a cameo role in the movie. Nagai is known in both Japan and the US for his often over-the-top, violence and sex-filled manga and anime, including Devilman (1972), Cutie Honey (1973) and his controversial manga “Harenchi Gakuen” (“The Shameless School”).
Melvin’s last name was changed from Ferd (as it was in the original) to Junko for the sequels.
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