30th Anniversary: 1989 - the Best Year in Cinema Marathon Film #85/100: "The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie" (1st Viewing.) Funny about these movies - oh, they're bad and the humor mostly is flat and obvious...but every once in awhile, a joke will land and I WILL find myself laughing out loud. Probably not for an overall recommendation, but maybe for those who love extreme b-movie, exploitation, goofy parodies. I can't say for sure, but because of those rare LOL moments and an actual coherent plot, this might be the best Toxie movie to date.
Couple of funny mentions: I'm doing this 1989 "Best Year in Cinema" marathon, as mentioned above, and I'm watching a dead-even 50 new to me films and 50 seen by me at least once and all in chronological order. This one was hilariously and truthfully sandwiched in-between My Left Foot and The Little Mermaid of all movie. Talk about a dip in quality in the middle!
Also, this was probably the one time I didn't mind seeing Trump's ugly mug show up/cameo. In a quick, blink and you'll miss it scene, "his" Art of the Deal book is shown as Toxie was rising in power as a Big City Businessman. Hell, Toxie even acts as an evil landlord at one point, the evil organization has a "Agent Orange" scheme and Toxie marries what appears to be the mockery of Ivana Trump. So, they're really saying - so far ahead of its time - that Trump is a monster, disgusting on the inside and out. That alone should grant this movie an extra star.
Couple of funny mentions: I'm doing this 1989 "Best Year in Cinema" marathon, as mentioned above, and I'm watching a dead-even 50 new to me films and 50 seen by me at least once and all in chronological order. This one was hilariously and truthfully sandwiched in-between My Left Foot and The Little Mermaid of all movie. Talk about a dip in quality in the middle!
Also, this was probably the one time I didn't mind seeing Trump's ugly mug show up/cameo. In a quick, blink and you'll miss it scene, "his" Art of the Deal book is shown as Toxie was rising in power as a Big City Businessman. Hell, Toxie even acts as an evil landlord at one point, the evil organization has a "Agent Orange" scheme and Toxie marries what appears to be the mockery of Ivana Trump. So, they're really saying - so far ahead of its time - that Trump is a monster, disgusting on the inside and out. That alone should grant this movie an extra star.