Lloyd Kaufman
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

WARNING: this is my first DeReview, so get the buckets ready. You wouldn't want to soil mom's carpet with vomit, would you?

It was the year of our Lord 2000 when Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, the producer duo who absolutely consume more vinyl adhesive non-canonically than anyone else on the whole wide world, gifted us the 3rd sequel (3+1=4 ?) of the now legendary "Toxic Avenger" (which in the meantime had become the official mascot of Troma).

The story always takes place in the fictional suburban town of Tromaville (the setting for much of Troma's films), but an explosion caused by the terrorists of the Diaper Mafia catapults our hero into a parallel universe, Amortville.

Here Melvin (yes, the New Jersey Avenger is indeed called that), along with two delayed boys who survived the explosion with him, finds himself in a practically upside-down world. His shack at the radioactive waste dump is gone, his wife is no longer blind but deaf, his friends become enemies, and his faithful obese sidekick Lardass is reduced to doing "Blougiobbi" on the street in exchange for sweets. The same thing happens in Tromaville, where the poor citizens of the most radioactive town in America have to deal with Toxie's evil alter ego, Noxie. The latter, however, seems to be doing better than our beloved; amid blood orgies and real orgies with Sarah, Toxie's wife.

The clash between the two fetuses (one of Toxie and one of Noxie) in Sarah's womb is epic. Significantly better than chapters number 3 and 4 of the saga, "Citizen Toxie" reaches the levels of the first (okay, it surpasses it greatly, but loses in genuineness) by increasing the number of filthy/splatter/offensive scenes.

A real treat for Tromophiles!

The numerous cameos (and I'm not talking about powdered puddings) put the icing on the cake. From Kaufman himself (in a Hitchcockian frenzy) to porn actor Ron Jeremy (in the role of the very Catholic mayor of Tromaville), from Lemmy of Motorhead to Eli Roth (yes, yes, the director of that immense crap "Hostel"). Spectacular is the dwarf Hank The Drunken Dwarf in the role of God.

Oh, I almost forgot. The narrator of the prologue is none other than Stan Lee, the father of Marvel superheroes. Not bad for Toxie to have the creator of the greatest morally accepted superheroes as a godfather.

Review finished. Go empty the bucket.