Isolation marathon (Part 4).

Meedyah Morsels #238.
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A big stack of Troma...

Toxic Avenger quadrilogy-
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989)
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation Of Toxie (1989)
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV (2000)

Old reviews here, here, here, here, and here.

Man, swap nuclear waste for covid19, and the 80's become today.
I dunno if these are good or bad movies to watch while we're locked up inside being pissed at Republicans.

I found them cathartic.
YMMV.

I used to think the villains in these, and in Captain Planet, were over the top.
No, there literally isn't anything big business and their Washington lackeys won't stoop to.
It's hard to even satirize the bastards.

Y'know, all doubt is removed for me that it's the left-wing messaging in these films that have caused Troma so much censorship and blacklisting headaches.

Violence wise, there's nothing in these that you can't see in "Deadpool", or "Brightburn", or an average episode of "The Walking Dead".

Sex wise, there's nothing you haven't seen in South Park.

It's just "Deadpool", and "Bightburn", stay politically neutral, and South Park is right-wing.

Fuck. This. Country!
Politically.
I stick around for the movies.
Obviously.


Toxie adjacent movies-
The Class Of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
Return To Nuke 'Em High: Volume 1 (2013)
Street Trash (1987)
Redneck Zombies  (1987)
Troma's War (1988)
Father's Day (2011)

Old reviews-

Class Of Nuke 'Em High (here)
Return to Nuke 'Em High: Vol 1 (here)
Street Trash (here, here, and here)
Redneck Zombies (here and here)
Troma's War (here and here)
Father's Day (here and here)

Adjacent to Toxie cuz....

Nuke 'Em, cuz it's in Tromaville, thus making it part of the Troma Cinematic Universe.
Plus actors from Toxie carry over in other roles.

Return To Nuke 'Em, cuz it's a sequel/remake to Nuke 'Em 1.
And Cigarface from Toxie pops up.

Street Trash, cuz Jennifer Aspinal does the effects, and the fat dude who's in Toxie 1, and Nuke 'Em 1 is in it. Not an actual Troma movie, but it should be.

Redneck Zombies, cuz Pericles Lewnes directs, stars, and does the effects, and then he went on to do the effects for Toxie 2 & 3, and play a villain in 3.
And 3 references Redneck Zombies.
So, "Street Trash", you've got the effects person from the first spinning off, and "Redneck", you've got the resume for the future effects guy of 2 & 3.

Troma's War, cuz it connects to Tromaville, has the guy who plays Cigarface in Toxie 1, and Joe Fleishaker who'd go on to be in Toxie 2, 3, & 4.
And Pericles Lewnes did effects on this just before the Toxie sequels.
AND, Toxie 1, Nuke 'Em 1, and this form "The Reagan trilogy".
Each one ripping on an aspect of Reagan's America.
Nuclear waste, nuclear plants, and the military industrial complex respectively.
Oh, and it predicted Republicans being in league with the Russians before anyone else.
That had to add to Lloyd's blacklisting.
"How DARE you?!!?! How DARE you?!!?!?", they would have said back then for suggesting it.
Now?
They're open about it, and don't care anymore if you know.
Too late now, they've got us by the balls.

Father's Day, cuz...Lloyd Kaufman is in it.*Shrug*
Really, I just felt like watching it, and I wanted to get the number to an even 10.
Another 80's throwback like "Kung Fury", or "Turbo Kid".
No real deep political message.
Except maybe that religion and homophobia are bullshit.
But don't we know that by now?
That's another one covid19 is getting fence sitters off the fence with.
Sane people look at the "open the economy!", protesters and think "hey...shouldn't we be TAXING you shitty motherfuckers!?!?".

Best one of these?
"Street Trash".
Better writing and acting than all the others.
Hands down.
Boom.

Lloyd Kaufman is a clunky writer; there, I said it.
But his weaknesses are covered up in the Toxie movies, cuz where he's clunky, comic books are clunky, so you can blame it on being a comic book parody.

Not so much the others.
Although..."War", is totally a 2 hour political cartoon, so that covers his ass too.

Anyway, I enjoyed them all, but "Street Trash", takes the prize.

So, that was all those.

Next, a bunch of non-Troma 80's horror comedies.


Previously with isolation marathon-

• Isolation marathon (Part 1).
• Isolation marathon (Part 2).
• Isolation marathon (Part 3).

Previously with MM-

Venom 2 title. (MM #237)