This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly and comical results. The local mop boy is now the local Superhero, the saviour of corruption, thuggish bullies and indiffere... (Full plot summary below)
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This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly and comical results. The local mop boy is now the local Superhero, the saviour of corruption, thuggish bullies and indifference. Troma classic with good make-up effects and stunts, a pleasant surprise indeed.
Leave your thoughts about The Toxic Avenger.
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestSimply one of the most embarassingly entertaining movies I've ever seen! |
| Stream on DemandSean AxmakerThe humor is not merely sophomoric and silly, it's aggressively so, and the bargain basement gore effects are over-the-top and excessive. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThis is the main movie that built the house of Troma, Lloyd Kaufman's production company devoted to low-budget camp. The Toxic Avenger tells the humorous story of a geeky weakling who is turned into a superhero when he is slimed by some toxic waste. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperIt has crude production values, weak humor, and an inexplicable following. |
| VarietyVariety StaffAn outlandish mix of gory violence and realistic special effects. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayIt's passable entertainment for a while, but even with the short 87 minute running time it starts to feel a bit long in the tooth |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenThe Toxic Avenger may be trash, but it has a maniacally farcical sense of humor, and Tromaville's evildoers are dispatched in ingenious ways. One is dry-cleaned to death, another made into pizza, a third partly french-fried. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewIt all falls apart after an hour, chunks of the preceding entertainment reappearing as random montages. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrCruddy, primal, extremely violent, and fairly entertaining, this 1984 feature from the New York-based exploitation outfit Troma, Inc. (Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz) captures some of the snot-flicking spirit of the old EC comics. How much you'll enjoy its deliberate crudity probably depends on how far you can let yourself regress to surly adolescence. |
| EmpireKim NewmanAll-in-all a fairly unpleasant experience for most audiences. |
