Class of Nuke 'Em High Part 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994) User Reviews

Class of Nuke 'Em High Part 3 The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid: More of the same

[Platypuschow · 3/10 · 22 December 2018]

Considering that the first two Class of Nuke 'Em High movies got a combined 5 out of a potential 20 I wasn't expecting much from this third offering and I was right in my assumption.

Arguably Troma's second most famous franchise Nuke 'Em High are standard Troma affairs. Namely they look cheap, they fail to be funny, riddled with puerile humor and lots of t&a.

Full of the usual punks, 80's music and naff looking gore I was unsurprisingly unimpressed by this third movie and it's nonsensical tale of super powered twins.

Truth be told I hate Troma, I think they're moronic movies and don't believe I've watched a single one of their films and considered it watchable.

Dumb, childish and ugly.

The Good:

Succeeds to be what it sets out to be

Kaufman didn't make a cameo appearance

The Bad:

Dumb

Looks naff

Simply not funny

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Pointing at big scary things instead of running away from them is perfectly logical

I don't care how ridiculous it looks, I want Dicks jacket!

Two Dicks are better than one

I'm not sure a 2 day old should have a girlfriend

This movie was directed with no hands

The least of the trilogy

[gridoon2024 · 5/10 · 22 May 2008]

Like its immediate predecessor ("Subhumanoid Meltdown"), the third part of the "Class of Nuke'Em High" series is not a horror-comedy but a pure spoof. Unfortunately, it's not as funny as Part 2 (some of the funniest jokes can be found in the closing credits - "stand-in for Brick Bronsky: Brick Bronsky", etc.). It is short on genuine comic inspiration, though long on exposition (a lot of the dialogue explains things that have already been explained), weirdness, self-referentiality, gooey special effects, and hot girls, a lot of them carrying big guns (Lisa Star provides knockout T & A). Generally speaking, I like the spirit of the film more than the film itself. (**)

Worst one of the series & a pretty crud film all round.

[poolandrews · 3/10 · 21 April 2006]

Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumaniod picks up where Class Of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991) finished, the mutant squirrel is blown to kingdom come by the bomb disguised as an Acorn & the Tromaville Institute for Technology is left in ruins. Ace reporter for the Troma Tech Times Roger Smith (Brick Bronsky) learns that his Subhumanoid girlfriend Victoria (Leesa Rowland) is pregnant, the big day arrives & Victoria gives birth to twins although misguided genetic scientist Professor Holt (Lisa Gaye) & evil corporate guy Dr. Slag, PHD (John Tallman) steal the first twin & disappear before the second is born. Roger is unaware that Victoria gave birth to twins & happily thinks he has only one son who he names Adlai (Brick Bronsky again) & brings up to be a caring person, however Dr. Slag calls the other twin Dick (Brick Bronsky again, again) & raises him to be just plain evil. Both twins are fully matured within two years & soon discover the other's existence, Dr. Slag & Professor Holt want Adlai to join forces with Dick & combine their subhumanoid powers to do their own evil bidding...

Co-written & directed by Eric Louzil I personally thought Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid was far worse than either parts 1 or II, everything that made those films even mildly watchable & amusing is lacking here & it's back to normal service as far as Troma goes. The script by Louzil, Stephen Gerard, Lloyd Kaufman, Carl Morano, Mark F. Rosling, Matt Unger & Jeffrey W. Sass is more of a comedy than a horror, in fact there is very little horror here. It commits the ultimate sin for a comedy, it simply isn't funny. It's stupid, moronic, dumb & tedious but it's definitely not funny. Close-up shots of womens bums who then fart is about as sophisticated as this juvenile nonsense gets, a scene when a genetically created mutant Werewolf thing is killed by hitting it with rolled up newspaper's like you would an ordinary dog (you would?), a lot of the jokes make fun of the previous film & it starts to parody itself coupled together with the usual dumb tasteless gags you'd expect from Troma. I also have to mention the way the narrative is presented, generally speaking this film doesn't really have any plot worth bothering with but the ENTIRE film is narrated from one persons perspective, it's almost as if they didn't film any sound during certain scenes or perhaps they were just to lazy & talentless to write any decent dialogue & a proper story to go with it, at over 100 minutes it's far too long as well.

Director Louzil, he also directed the previous entry in the series, was obviously working with a low budget & it shows. Pretty much the whole thing is a mess. Again this has a few funny closing credits, along with 'Set Dresser' there's credits for 'Salad Dresser' & 'Cross Dresser' while 'Key Grip' is followed by 'Golf Grip', you get the idea. There are no laughs & there's no horror in this one either, I honestly can't even remember any gore. The usual abundance of nudity is present & correct though.

Technically speaking Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid is pretty dire, it's flat, bland & badly made throughout with rotten special effects. The acting is poor although am I the only one who actually quite fancies Lisa Gaye from these films? I hate the ridiculous beehive hair-do but there's something about her... Also, who names their son Brick? Apart from Mr. & Mrs Bronsky that is...

Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid is a pretty useless film, as a comedy it's not funny, as a horror it's not scary or shocking, as a piece of film-making it doesn't even register & it just about fails on all levels. Do you really want to watch a film where the camera moves up a good looking woman's body from the feet up & when it reaches her bum she lets out a loud fart? I'll say no more, watch one of the previous two instead...

"So I did what came naturally," I smashed the tape into a million, zillion little pieces!

[Pando · 1/10 · 16 November 1998]

More than anything else, this movie made me want to slit my wrists. It's only maybe an hour long, but it FEELS like several more at LEAST. Not only that, but at least half of it is just a RECAP of the LAST SEQUEL! I think Tromaville was actually better when they were just bad naturally, and not trying to do it on purpose. They used to be "enjoyably bad" and now they're "very, very painfully bad."

Not as funny as the others, and much more slow-paced

[stroggos · 4/10 · 5 October 2017]

This movie picks right off where the last Class of Nuke 'Em High finished. This installment tells the story of two twin brothers, one raised to do good and one raised to do evil in the name of the Nukamama corporation. It features a lot of the cast from the last movie, which is good. However, the pace is much slower and the movie drags along quite a bit. Some of the same jokes are re-used (such as the "key grip"-"key grope" in the credits), and there's more silly jokes, such as fart jokes or meta- references to Troma movies. There's no massive climax as in the last one, no gigantic squirrel or some sort of mayhem... All in all, entertaining but a bit of a letdown compared to its predecessors.

Very much the same as its predecessor, i.e. not very good

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 6 September 2017]

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE SUBHUMANOID is the third in the schlocky Troma series, and as hero it features Brick Bronsky who returns from the second instalment. Like its predecessor this is a near plot less mish-mash of ideas featuring romance, a mad scientist, and various mutant creations. It doesn't really hang together all that well and it suffers from not being particularly funny either. It's mainly cheesy silliness with the occasional gore scene and a big-haired blonde bimbo running around naked for the most part. The villain sports a nice silver eye patch and that's about it.

This is the worst installment in the original trilogy

[kevin_robbins · 5/10 · 13 November 2022]

Class of Nuke 'Em High Part 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994) is currently available on Tubi. The storyline picks up where the previous film left off where a newspaper reporter saved Nuke 'em High and Tromaville. That reporter is now mayor and his DNA was used to create twins. One twin is good and continues to protect the school and town and the other twin joins the evil Professor Holt. The twins are bound to face off in an epic showdown to determine the fate of Tromaville.

This movie is directed by Eric Louzil (Class of Nuke 'Em High 2) and stars Brick Bronsky (Sgt. Kabukiman N. Y. P. D.), Lisa Star (Independence Day), John Tallman (Lust for Freedom), Lisa Gaye (Toxic Avenger Part II) and Mark Richardson (Vice Academy).

The flashback and story tie was...interesting. The narration explanation did get old quick; however, the squirrel 🐿 in this is always fun. I always loved the costumes and sets in these movies. It's low budget but done in a fascinating way that captures the imagination. Trish is an absolute smoke show and the Ron Jeremy cameo made me laugh. The ending was a good "period" on the original trilogy.

Overall, this is the worst installment in the trilogy but I'd consider all 3 movies so bad they're good. I would score this a 4.5-5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

Holy "I've got a glowing hand" Batman!

[whammy666 · 7/10 · 17 June 2006]

Just when you thought Classof Nuke Em High couldn't get any weirder...or any worse...it does. That is not necessarily a good thing, but hey, this film is still fun! It seems that Victoria and Roger from the previous film have twins, an evil kid and a good kid and they don't know each other exist. So basically the film is them trying to find each other and using their glowing hand to satisfy girl's sexual fantasies. Although the lead girl in this one is...pretty ugly...Trish. She brings the film down because she is annoying but all she does is fart which is actually kind of funny. This film is more of the same of the last film, just worse...Tromie makes an appearance as well as Greenie The Weenie Man, but they are not in long enough. It is pretty funny how people at the nuclear reactor care more about whether the chicken or the egg came first than trying to save the nuclear reactor from blowing Tromaville to a gob of green goo. Also, this is a good film because this marked Ron Jeremy's first appearance in a Troma film and he has become important to Tromaville making appearances in Terror Firmer, Citizen Toxie, and Tales From The Crapper. So wipe those tears, this is a Troma movie, and it may not be as good as the previous ones but it is fun!