This is classic 80s cinema at its best. If you like the best 80s movies like Back to The Future, Top Gun etc., this is for you, great humor (always straight-faced even with ridiculous dialogue), cheap but effective effects, great 80s soundtrack and more. The main character is a martial arts studying brain surgeon, physicist, all around genius and leader of his very own rock band and star of video games comic books and more in his universe. This is the type of movie every six year old boy dreams of making.This movie helped launch the careers of Jeff Goldblum (as Buckaroo's cowboy brain surgeon sidekick lol), Peter Weller (Robocop), Jon Lithgow (3rd rock from the sun, Shrek), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, The Pagemaster), Ellen Barkin (Diner, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Billy Vera (of Billy Vera & the Beaters, an 80s one hit wonder band with the song "At This Moment"), and Clancey Brown (the bad guard from Shawshank Redemption and the frickin voice of Mr. Krabs from Spongebob). This movie was tailor made for tons of spinoffs merchandise and sequels, but it never got ANY and I will never understand why, My only dissappointment with the film was the characters never went to outer space, or at least never showed it for lack of a bigger budget, even though the film deals strongly with aliens and stuff. Definitely quotable and a no brainer as far as why it has a cult following. I will give it 4.5/5 and say no more, cept watch the end scene of the movie SO good:
The Toxic Avenger (1984) the king of 80s stereotyped, cult and so awful they're amazing movies. The Toxic Avenger is the movie that launched the creation of indie/cult movie company Troma Studios, an extremely successful movie franchise with 3 sequels a children's cartoon series (similar to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and a confirmed upcoming remake starring Arnold Schwarzenegger!, and the career of its creator and head of Troma studios, Lloyd Kaufman. Idk if this movie was made to be horrible and have people overact on PURPOSE, but it is almost inconceivable that the quality of this film could be so low without making it that way on purpose. At first glance it would look like a movie you and a group of friends could easily make with your own camera, heck with the quality of phone cameras you could probably make a BETTER looking film with your phone, but where this movie does spend it's money is on it's incredibly over the top gory death scenes. How this movie (easily one of the most gory movies I've ever seen and ever made. The violent aspects of the film, and the relationship some of the characters have with violence are seriously messed up) got a successful children's TV cartoon is beyond me. Also I'm not a fan of gore so IMO what makes this movie great is it's references and tributes it makes to Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, The Three Stooges, Abbot & Costello, A Clockwork Orange, and Dr. Strangelove, and it's general over the topness in every way possible that makes it HILARIOUS, It also has the most stereotypes I've ever seen in one movie it I'm assuming that's part of the humor (but who knows? ). The mexican restaurant is called "The Mexican Place" and they have samurai swords on the walls and a pizza oven in the kitchen lol. This movie is also so 80s it hurts, with random people dancing for no reason in most of its scenes, and MULTIPLE 80s montages. The film also has MILLIONS of noticeable errors (jump cuts continuity errors, over exposed lighting, bad lip dubbing, etc.) but they add to the fun of it, even though the quality is damn awful, this is seriously the most fun I've had watching a movie in a LONG long time, it's not hard to understand why this became as successful as it did (it's also referenced in TONS of movies and TV shows). So note I give this one a 5/5 not for quality by any means, but just because of how enjoyable/fun it is. P.S. the movie's available on instant on Netflix.
This is classic 80s cinema at its best. If you like the best 80s movies like Back to The Future, Top Gun etc., this is for you, great humor (always straight-faced even with ridiculous dialogue), cheap but effective effects, great 80s soundtrack and more. The main character is a martial arts studying brain surgeon, physicist, all around genius and leader of his very own rock band and star of video games comic books and more in his universe. This is the type of movie every six year old boy dreams of making.This movie helped launch the careers of Jeff Goldblum (as Buckaroo's cowboy brain surgeon sidekick lol), Peter Weller (Robocop), Jon Lithgow (3rd rock from the sun, Shrek), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, The Pagemaster), Ellen Barkin (Diner, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Billy Vera (of Billy Vera & the Beaters, an 80s one hit wonder band with the song "At This Moment"), and Clancey Brown (the bad guard from Shawshank Redemption and the frickin voice of Mr. Krabs from Spongebob). This movie was tailor made for tons of spinoffs merchandise and sequels, but it never got ANY and I will never understand why, My only dissappointment with the film was the characters never went to outer space, or at least never showed it for lack of a bigger budget, even though the film deals strongly with aliens and stuff. Definitely quotable and a no brainer as far as why it has a cult following. I will give it 4.5/5 and say no more, cept watch the end scene of the movie SO good:
