“ Citizen toxie ” is troma to its best, disgusting, openly offensive

The boss of Troma, Lloyd Kaufman, was in effect to speak of Macon Blair The Toxic AvengerAn animated reimagination of the 1984 cult classic from the studio which was set to radiate a brand new generation when it will arrive in theaters this month. But when Io9 had the opportunity to speak to Kaufman during the recent Comic-Con San Diego, we had to ask: after watching Blair’s film, which other Film in the vast troma archives if a newly created fan should turn to the next one?

“The fourth Toxic movie, Citizen toxia“Said Kaufman without hesitation.” He deals with abortion, he deals with school shots (the environment) – he deals with everything that an American can be proud at the moment. He was made in 2000, he is 25 years old, (and) all these things are even worse than ever. »»

A few minutes later, he doubled Citizen toxiaSaying that after Blair’s new film, “It’s the best. I like this one the best.”

Kaufman made and co -written the film – Full title, Citizen toxia: The Toxic Avenger IV– What starts with a narrator with suspect delicacy (Kaufman Pal Stan Lee) summarizing the original film, apologizing for the two “rotten” films that came after, and relaying firm insurance, supported by text on the screen, that “is the real sequel”.

With this taken care of, we directly immerse ourselves in an equal opportunity offensivity attack. If something makes you step back, retch, or both, you will be good because something a lot More repugnant and horrible is about to occur 30 seconds later. The entire approach of Troma is to target the lowest possible fruits, while making fun of everyone and everything and to take a blowtor in anything resembling political accuracy.

There East A plot propelling all the fast shooting gags knowingly covered with bad taste. The film begins at the “Tromaville School for the very special” on “Take a Mexican to Derbing Day” while a gang of adult babies which turned firearms burst and begins to massacre students. It is an excuse for an impious fan of shit jokes, lurid trketing, free nudity, scandalous gore performance, exaggerated performance … and more, which continues throughout the film. Keeping in mind that provoking a visceral reaction is the point, you can decide right away if you can support the rest.

However, if you decide to stay, you will see a configuration in fact quite intelligent emerge: when the school explodes, toxia (which rushed to save everyone) and two of the “very special” students are found in a mirror universe. It is “Amortville” rather than “Tromville”, and if it’s too high concept, a guy you may have heard of James Gunn stops to imitate Stephen Hawking (his character is called “Flem Hocking”) and spit a bunch of pseudo-physics explanations.

While toxia takes place around a sort of worse version of its own reality, “Noxie” – the outfit for the harmful offender – appears in Tromaville in his place. Chaos follows, the local Nazis rejoice, and Citizen toxia Makes its title by giving Noxie its own news in black and white which takes place as much more debauchery Citizen Kane. We also get fun variations in each universe, including several unhappy Troma “superheroes”. During all this time, the nasty Noxie causes as much destruction as possible and toxia is frantically tried to go home – a task that takes a boost from Oz assistant to be accomplished.

Finally, the two compete by using mops that sound curiously as Star Wars Sabers laser. But you can be exhausted well before the end, which presents a cameo from Kaufman (after a film Fardi with them; apart from Lee and Gunn, there is Eli Roth, Lemmy de Motorhead, the porn star Ron Jeremy, Corey Feldman, and probably more). And even if you vibe with jokes, Citizen toxia can still cause real offense. For me, the racist trail scene – which reproduces a real hatred crime that viewers in 2000 would surely have recalled – push things too far, even if in this context, the head of the victim of the planned murder survives And becomes a charismatic addition to the distribution of support.

There is certainly not much depth here, and certainly zero nuance. But under all the gallons of bodily fluids, there is a certain free -minded chaos which guides the approach of Troma. The studio does not try to “own” sensitive viewers or to rebel against awareness, concepts that did not even exist in 2000. Above all, it aims to entertain, taking the rude road possible to achieve this goal.

And while Citizen toxia is full of disgusting jokes and stereotypes, his distorted hero really tries to be a good guy. This is something that takes place in the new Toxia Avengerwhich updates the more, outdated qualities of Troma, in the best possible way, which has resulted in a smarter than rude film (but always rude when it should be). The two films also share some key dishes: do not be an asshole. Defend what you believe and fight for those who can’t. And kiss everything that makes you strange and different – like being a Troma fan, for example.

Citizen toxia: The Toxic Avenger IV is streaming for free on Prime Video and is also available on the clean streamer of Trooma, Troma Now. The Toxic Avenger Hits in theaters on August 29.

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