TOXIC AVENGER, THE 
(1986)


(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide)


This ultra-low-budget grade-Z classic is the story of a sensitive health spa mop-boy, the mutant offspring of Jerry Lewis, who gets tricked into dressing in a pink tutu by four yuppie hit-and-run drivers and then falls into a vat of lime green nuclear waste, turns into a Mister Potato Head, and rampages through the New Jersey metropolis of Tromaville, ripping apart the street scum, until he falls in love with a blind girl with huge breasts and goes on a campout. Featuring some of the finest Jewish character actors in southern Ohio, directed by the man who brought you "When Nature Calls, You've Gotta Go," this is the drive-in "China Syndrome." Eight breasts. Nineteen dead bodies. One motor vehicle chase, with three explosions. Automotive pinball (dead Puerto Ricans count 30 points, children under 12 extra credit). Monster sex. Hiney barbecue. Rear-wheel head crushing. Nautilus head slicing. Gratuitous gay hairdressers. Tutu Fu. With Pat Ryan Jr. as the beached-whale mayor who literally loses his guts on camera, Andree Maranda as the blind bimbo, and Mitchell Cohen in the title role. His best line: "I think I'm out of control; every day I go out and I mash people and I tear them apart."

 

 

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