I picked up this DVD the other day. Not only is it the best Toxic Avenger movie ever, it’s the best Troma movie ever. The level of sheer offensiveness is just staggering…massive gore, retarded children, grossly overweight male prostitutes, abortion clinics, a black man being dragged by a truck, villians with Hitler mustaches, and on and on…
The DVD extras are also bountiful. It’s hilarious how Troma puts so much effort into their DVD design and content but the film itself gets a awful full-frame piss-poor transfer that makes it look like it was 20 years old. The deleted scenes are actually of BETTER quality than the film itself!
A good buy in any case.
Oooh! I didn’t realize this was on DVD now! Ashamedly, I still haven’t seen it, but I own the other three movies on DVD (parts 2 and 3 are awful, as I’m sure you know, but they came with the “Tox Box”), so this will make a wonderful addition. Have you seen Terror Firmer? Is it pretty similar to that in it’s level of offensiveness?
It’s much, much more extreme than Terror Firmer, actually…Terror Firmer was pretty outrageous, but Citizen Toxie just never lets up. It’s just 90 minutes of sheer foulness. Even minor scenes get juiced up with something repellent…like a girl goes into a abortion clinic, and there are hideous female screams coming from another room. Plus there’s Joe Fleisheker, Troma’s resident overweight buffoon, giving blowjobs to guys for 50 cents and spitting mayonnaise out of his mouth aftewards…
2 and 3 are totally awful. The beginning of Citizen Toxie actually apologizes for them. A narrator gives the history of the first Toxic Avenger, then says, “It was followed by 2 sequels. Which sucked. We apologize. This is the REAL sequel.”
How does it compare to my personal fave “Tromeo and Juliet”?