Review: Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)

Citizen Toxie is the best Troma release I've ever seen. There is so friggin' much going on, that it almost hurts the brain. That is, if you can stop laughing.

From Tito, the special needs rebel, who keeps walking off saying "F this, I'm outta here", to the nasty Lardass makeout scene, I was completely dazed and hypnotized by Kaufman's masterpiece. The title comes from the best part of the movie, a beige-and-white Citizen Kane parody complete with a Julie Strain booby-killing and a Jackson Pollack wannabe gettin his eye gouged out.

What's so great about this flick is the editing: Gabriel Friedman makes the most of the two-camera shoot, cutting this one up so fine that it jerks you from one set-up to the next so fast and funny, that you're not sure how you got there. Though the production values are, of course, Troma-standard-zilch, score one for the make-up team for the best looking Toxie of all.

The icing on the cake is a ridiculous amount of special features (4 friggin' menus on the DVD) including a 95 minute (yeah, it's longer than the flick, and maybe even funnier) behind the scenes feature, Apocalypse Soon. I stayed up all night last night watching it all, and I'm now as tired as a bastard, but it was worth it.

Though I rented the DVD, I'll be buying the 3-disc collector's edition real soon. Two Mops Up!