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Ron Fazio (II), John Altamura, Phoebe Legere (II), Rick Collins (II), Rikiya Yasuoka ... see more see more... , Lisa Gaye , Mayako Katsuragi , Shinoburyu , Jessica Dublin , Erika Schickel , Jackie Cooper , Tsutomu Sekine

Ron Fazio returns as The Toxic Avenger, "the first hideously deformed monster hero of superhuman size and strength ever to come from New Jersey," in Troma's mercenary sequel to its hit film The Toxic ... read more read more...Avenger. Since Toxie cleaned up Tromaville, New Jersey in the first film, he now has no one to fight. He works at the Tromaville Center for The Blind and has a girlfriend named Claire (Phoebe Legere). But the peace in Tromaville is shattered when an evil chemical company, Apocalypse Inc., and its dastardly chairman (Rick Collins), set their sights on Tromaville. In order to take over Tromaville, the Toxic Avenger must be eliminated. By intense study, Apocalypse's second-in-command, Maifaire (Lisa Gaye), discovers that Toxie's desire to vanquish villains is caused by particles manufactured in his body called "tromatons." Apocalypse Inc. bribes Toxie's psychiatrist to suggest that Toxie form a relationship with his father in order to get Toxie out of the country. His father happens to be in Japan and Toxie makes the trip to find him. While out of sight of his hometown, Apocalypse Inc. takes over Tromaville. Meanwhile, in Japan, Toxie finally finds his father but it turns out that his father is an arch-villain who must be killed. "Anti-tromatons" employed in the battle with his father render him weak and wounded, but a team of sumo wrestlers nurse him back to health and Toxie travels back to New Jersey for a confrontation with Apocalypse Inc. in Tromaville. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

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DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008

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  • matertenebraum
    August 28, 2009
    matertenebraum
    The Toxic Avenger is a hilarious, fun, gory and exciting picture that really has it all. I didn't hear a lot of good things about the second tale of Toxie which was really bad to hear. Most of this negative attitude was centered around the "unrated" DVD that was actually heavily ... read moreedited. Luckily the one I got was the true Director's Cut that ran around 106 minutes. This one had pretty much everything the first one had but the main thing that annoyed me was the change of actors. It just wasn't the same, the actors from the first weren't good but they brought a charm to the characters.

    The plot in this one is crazier than that of the first. This time The Toxic Avenger is lured into Tokyo, Japan by Apocalypse Inc. While he is fighting crime in Tokyo Apocalypse Inc. is reeking havoc in Tromaville. As usual, it's up to Toxie to save the day.

    The "unrated" version, as talked about before, apparently omits all the gore. And boy, there's a lot of it. We see plenty of great, gory stuff like intestines getting blown out of a guy's stomach from severe wheelchair trauma, roses being shoved into a man's eyes, someone getting chopped into sushi and much, much more. And the effects are actually really good.

    Please, don't go into this seriously, take your brain out and watch it. It's a lot of fun and it should please Troma fans and gorehounds alike!
  • 366weirdmovies
    June 14, 2009
    366weirdmovies
    "Toxie", New Jersey's only superhero, is lured to Japan by an evil corporation that wants to buy up his hometown of Tromaville to make it into an industrial waste dumping ground and general dystopia. With its long bloody brawls with an endless supply of ridiculously costumed goo... read morens and punks, it's even sillier (and moderately funnier) than the original, and much less mean-spirited while still retaining its politically incorrect edge.
  • kenscheck
    November 17, 2011
    kenscheck
    The second Toxic Avenger film is no better or worse than the first. It is just as strange, over the top, ridiculous, and somehow entertaining as the original. This by no means means it is great, but it is good entertainment if you like this kind of thing. The movie has some go... read moreod laughs as Toxie makes his way to Tokyo to find his dad...only to stumble into a trap set up by Apocalypse, Inc...who want to take over Tromaville. Good fun and plenty of gore and silly (sometimes too dumb) humor. If you like Troma or B-movies (and if you love B-movies you should really just know who Troma is) then you'll certainly enjoy Toxic Avenger, Part II.
  • kcddck
    January 10, 2011
    kcddck
    Even though a lot of the gore was missing in this one, there was still some pretty funny moments. Wasn't expecting a masterpiece, which helps.
  • sykora259517
    November 12, 2010
    sykora259517
    all the bad good from the first (but almost not bearable) esp. what he does to ?little person? but 16 minutes in I?m annoyed w/ the stupidity & I know this is going to be silly campy B-grade crap which is the charm of the first & then some but this is ridiculous. LMAO FISH FACE m... read moreakes up for early annoyance D
  • jam233
    June 5, 2010
    jam233
    I understand it is a tongue in cheek spoof, but that doesn?t make it funny. Airplane! was as well, but that was good, this is just stupid and not very funny, It is clearly bottom of the barrel with it?s budget. It?s just too silly and obvious to work on any level.
  • holmennnguy
    June 27, 2009
    holmennnguy
    Well, that was absolutely terrible. In the top 10 worst Horror moves I've seen. I was very disappointed after loving the first one so much. I was expecting the second to be just as good with the same humor and all. There were some very funny and creative kills, but it was boring,... read more lame, and just plain stupid. Why was this made?
  • engrymfilm
    January 7, 2009
    engrymfilm
    This movie's only weakness is running too long maybe because of the schlocky editing towards the end. There's also quite a bit of PG rated physical and verbal gags but I understand the direction and there's something special when Troma does it. "Was I suppose to take a left or a ... read moreright at the Panama Canal?"
  • FangsFirst
    December 11, 2008
    FangsFirst
    I watched all three of the Toxic Avenger movies (ok, there are four now, but at the time...) many times, though the sequels had to be rented so my viewings of them were fewer and further between. They're often trashed or denigrated, but I still fondly remember seeing the p... read moreosters for them at the tiny movie rental alcove in the grocery store we went to in my hometown. How I remember this I'm not sure, considering I was five when this came out, but perhaps it's not as simple as that and the video release was somehow long, long after that.Still, it got to the point that even Troma began to deny the middle two films, as they were "erased" in Citizen Toxie, the fourth film. Still, they're actually out there and even Lloyd has reconsidered (so long as you watch the uncut version with full gore).

    The Toxic Avenger (John Altamura/Ron Fazio, a mix of performances due to a mid-filming firing) has cleaned up his hometown of Tromaville, NJ and so the only job he has left is as "concierge" at the Tromaville Home for the Blind, at which his girlfriend Claire (Phoebe Legere) naturally also works. Into it, though, sweeps evil conglomerate (as if you couldn't guess from their name) Apocalypse, Inc. The Chairman (Rick Collins) and his right-hand woman Malfaire (or gyno-American as Lloyd might say--Lisa Gaye) send a bomb to Toxie (through a shipper that must be an acronym for Parcels United Service...) at the home, destroying it utterly. Naturally a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength will not be stopped by something as simple as a bomb, so Toxie must now contend with the troop of fighters the evil Chairman sends from their limo (which includes a masculine and moustachioed transvestite, a black midget, an indian..). When this fails, the Chairman asks his board for suggestions and Malfaire puts forth their latest plot--Toxie's psychiatrist (Erika Schickel) has been bought out and will push Toxie to head to Japan to find his father, "Big Mac" Junko, which will put him in place to be faced with their new weapon--the "anti-Tromaton," which will render him a puddle of "something."

    As I've said, much dirt has been slung at the two middle films in the Toxic Avenger series, and I can certainly understand why. Lloyd Kaufman admits that he and Michael Herz made some concessions to the MPAA when they released them, and unfortunately that sort of thing cripples a movie from a studio like Troma, because part of the point is the gratuitous sex and violence. What always bothered me, and will surprise few people, are the changes made. No longer is he Melvin Furd, but now "Melvin Junko," and various other characters and actors were changed--Sara (originally played by Andree Maranda) is now Claire, Melvin's mother is now played by Jessica Dublin instead of Sarabel Levinson, and even Toxie is now played by Altamura and Fazio, where he was originally played by Mitchell Cohen and voiced by Kenneth Kessler. The tone has changed radically, from a darkly humourous and ultra-violent horror/action/hero movie into a cartoonish comedy with lots of violence. Legere plays Claire as a bouncy, energetic, overly-falsetto airhead accordion player instead of a blind woman who happens to be the butt of many blind jokes by the filmmakers. Fight and chase scenes often have a synthesized version of "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (!), and Toxie's new voice is kind of nasal. Still, Claire is the only change that really bothered me. It works for the cartoon to have this out-of-control accordion playing girlfriend (who makes me think of the Real Ghostbusters version of Janeane Melnitz), but in the film it's irritating. She's not in this particular film too much though so it's not a huge complaint. On the other hand, it has a hovercraft chase scene to rival Die Another Day.*

    The new tone is interesting and almost makes for a more normal movie, as if Troma accidentally tripped and spilled their workings into a regular movie, and a more character-oriented plot. It ends up kind of bizarre, really, because this is like a singular period in Troma history, with no other films beyond the 2/3 sequels (plural because the same applies to Class of Nuke 'Em High 2 and 3) really hitting this peculiar ground. It's almost like a bridgepoint between the similarly bright and clear later and current films and the earlier, dirtier, grittier ones. Future traditions like Joe Fleishaker are still growing here (he had previously appeared in Troma's War), as are some of the amusingly ridiculous and contrived phrases people spout. Toxie's narration includes numerous instances of clearly deliberately forced alliteration, and the "hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength" phrase begins to take its prominence (though only the Toxic Crusaders cartoon rode it as hard as it did). It's kind of sad that Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD was not made for another 2 years, because it would have been the perfect film for a crossover, but such is life, I suppose. Lloyd also managed to begin the eventual tradition of smarter nods than you might expect, with a great response to a Shakespeare quote by the villain uttered by a homeless woman later on--though his commentary reveals even more surprising influences that you would never suspect in a million years.

    It's not a bad film (though honestly Lisa Gay is terrible, and not in the Troma sense so much as wooden and awkward and awful--everyone else at least acts correct for their parts, however ridiculous, melodramatic or reduced to caricature they may be) and gets a bad rap simply because it isn't the original film, but it works a lot better with the gore re-inserted and isn't quite so distractingly different with that inclusion--even as a youngun who had never even seen the unrated original, the reduced violence in this confused me quite a bit as a viewer, though I happily found this made it more acceptable to other people. Well, in my mind anyway. I don't think Troma will ever be acceptable in any general circles.

    Oh, and watch for the appearance by Go Nagai, apparently a huge fan of Troma, but known to everyone else for creations like Devilman and Mazinger-Z, as well as his own parody of the latter, Panda-Z.

    *I've never seen Die Another Day.
  • metalman80s
    August 26, 2007
    metalman80s
    This time Melvin goes to Japan, while the Apocalypse corporation takes over Tromaville. As you'd expect Melvin returns to Tromaville and saves the day.

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Critic Reviews

Stefan Birgir Stefansson
April 11, 2006
Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

makes toxie one a masterpiece Full Review

Luke Y. Thompson
June 11, 2003
Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

The first Toxie was dumb fun, but it should never have been made a "franchise."

Scott Weinberg
October 21, 2002
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

Lacks the energy of its predecessor, but there's enough campy cheeze to entertain the schlock fans.

March 26, 2009
Variety

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Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Richard Harrington
November 17, 2001
Richard Harrington, Washington Post

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Emanuel Levy
October 11, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Frank Swietek
April 1, 2005
Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

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Kevin N. Laforest
June 2, 2003
Kevin N. Laforest, Montreal Film Journal

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Mark Palermo
September 3, 2002
Mark Palermo, Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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