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Scenes are inexplicably filled with constantly rotating mis-matched song cuts, as if Lloyd Kaufman had been given free demos from every garage band in America and felt compelled to use them all in the same film. On top of that, his soundtrack choices are atrocious. The gags, gore, and nudity just don't land or stand out. The lesbian storyline in particular feels like a misguided effort to shock with what has largely become socially acceptable. But they're gold! Sheer gold!Īs a director, though, Kaufman feels a little tired and maybe even out of touch. Sadly, we only get a couple scenes with him. (It's the best thing about any of his films - the guy's a comic madman, and he's a good 99% of why I love Terror Firmer so much.) I could listen to Kaufman rant all day. You have to admire the enthusiasm behind Kaufman's anger, and his acting turn as the guy in charge of the heinous food company is easily the best thing about the film. Kaufman grinds his political ax about gross and greedy corporations just as much here as he did in Poultrygeist, although now he seems to have problems with President Obama, as well (there's a weird dig at Obamacare among some other jabs - the actual President in the film is of course played by Lemmy from Motorhead). Sometimes (almost every time) editing is a good thing. While you can see how such an idea would be economically attractive to Kaufman, what worked for Kill Bill isn't likely to work for every overly-long film that gets made. Apparently the film has been split into two parts at Quentin Tarantino's suggestion. I don't know exactly what this means because this film isn't fucking around when it says "Part 1." Despite not making much sense from beginning to end, Return to Nuke 'Em High: Part 1 leaves us on a cliff hanger.
The spreading infection also takes two lesbians, but in slightly more complicated ways. The infection happens while the kids are eating tainted guacamole, with all the nasty visuals and sound effects that implies. Instead of a school built right next to a nuclear power plant, we have a mass production "organic" foodstuffs supplier. The story doesn't really matter, but it involves nuclear food poisoning this time.
On top of that, their attacks are infrequent and lame. Stuff like "Sweet Adeline." This happens about four times, and each takes a lot longer than you'd want for a joke that doesn't really work in the first place. Often when they attack we have to hear them do an a cappella barbershop quartet song first. For instance, this film's group of Cretins are slightly transformed Glee Club members. Okay, now I'm starting to think it's funny.īut still, there are tons of other random decisions that just don't add up and comedy bits that don't pay off.
It's just a nonsensical fart thrown in there solely for its own sake. Nothing we know of made her fart, and the actress doesn't actually act like she's farting. Earlier the same character (the very pretty Catherine Corcoran) gets out of bed and Kaufman throws in a huge fart sound effect. It's kind of goofy but it just keeps going and going, way longer than it did in Batman and with way fewer actual jokes. There's a part where a character runs around with a duck stuck in her mouth trying to get rid of it like Batman with that bomb in the 1960s film. It's not that Kaufman operates at a sub-immature level - he always has. There's just something missing from a lot of the jokes here. I'm actually leaning toward this latter possibility as I still love most of the stupid shit I loved when I was 15, and yet had the hardest time sitting through this one. But as a 32 year old, I may have finally outgrown the joke. If you are still in that sweet spot age-wise, it's kind of your duty to see as many Lloyd Kaufman films as possible.
These films are defined by their cheap gore and eagerness to display tons of sex and nudity, but let's not fuck around here: They are made for audiences to whom pubes are still a glorious new adventure. It would be great to someday have a beer-fueled philosophical debate about whose fault this is: Mine or Troma's. Unfortunately, this eye-catching opening scene also represents Return to Nuke 'Em High's peak as far as sex and gore goes.
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Now, seven years later, Lloyd Kaufman is back with the first of a new pair of Class of Nuke 'Em High films.Īfter a fun recap of the first Nuke 'Em High series courtesy of a typically excited Stan Lee, Return to Class of Nuke 'Em High: Volume 1 jumps right into Troma's trademark world of sex, nudity, slime, mutant penises, sodomy, and melting tits. The resurgence in quality that began with 1997's Tromeo & Juliet has simply quieted down since the release of 2006's Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. It's been so long since I saw a new in-house Troma film that I was sure I had missed a few.