Return to nuke em high volume 2 blu ray dvd combo

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Brian Cheverie, who played Father O'Houlihan in Poultrygeist, is back playing another priest - maybe because he owns the costume (?).

300-pound drag queen Babette Bombshell, dressed like a man and looking very much like Divine's male character from Hairspray, plays Tromaville High's spastic principal, who is in cahoots with the food company in their plan to distribute toxic meals to his students.

(Besides Troma's numerous behind-the-scenes documentaries, Kaufman's one prior foray into digital fiction filmmaking was the ugly-looking, best-forgotten salvage job Tales from the Crapper.)ДЄs with every film set in Tromaville, the landscape is peopled with memorable oddballs, both in the speaking roles and in the background. It's a little ironic that Troma's best-looking film in decades was shot digitally, considering that Lloyd Kaufman has long been devoted to having his movies shot on 35mm celluloid. (Oh, I didn't forget to mention that Chrissy and Lauren, along with many of their classmates, turn into mutants because of the polluted food, did I?)ДЄnd speaking of moodily shot, the cinematography by Justin Duval is fricking great.

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Their moodily shot sex scene is genuinely erotic, and wouldn't be out of place in an indie movie that didn't have mutants in it. Actually, to be perfectly honest, though Kaufman has stuck lesbian lovers in pretty much everything he's directed since 1996's Tromeo and Juliet, the relationship between Chrissy and Lauren marks the first time I bought it that the lesbian characters were actually into each other and not just going through the motions to satisfy Troma's horndog fan base. Living in such different worlds, it doesn't seem like they should fall in love, but Chrissy and Lauren are both hot, so we suspend disbelief. Chrissy is an orphaned activist from a working-class background, trying to expose Tromorganic for the sham that it is Lauren is a rich girl obsessed with her pet duck Kevin. Those characters are Chrissy and Lauren, burgeoning young lesbians whose high school is situated right next to a former nuclear power plant-turned-ersatz health food factory, Tromorganic Foodstuffs. Smart, sexy, and funny, Asta Paredes and Catherine Corcoran are astonishingly game for whatever nonsense the Troma Team has cooked up for their characters to do. Unfortunately, RTNEH1 is schizophrenic in the way that it goes back and forth between mindlessly fulfilling those expectations and cleverly exceeding them.Д«efore we dwell on the film's cons, let's look at the pros. Those are the base requirements any fan is expecting from a Lloyd Kaufman joint. The movie's got boobs, over-the-top practical gore effects (augmented by a little low-budget CGI this time), and enough shticky fourth-wall-shattering meta jokes to make both Pirandello and Mel Brooks proud. You're gonna get high and have a great time whether I give the flick my rubber-stamp of approval here or not. In fact, if you're a Troma fan, stop reading this and go ahead and buy the Blu-ray. Now, for most Troma fans, my little quibbles won't matter.

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(Ahem.) But, as it stands now, RTNEH1 is largely a series of clever premises that don't always manifest solid punchlines. Granted, since this is just the first half of a two-part epic, I'm sure a lot of the parts left dangling will eventually be brought to a satisfying climax.

While Troma movies are not always paragons of economical storytelling, this seems significantly sloppier than most of Kaufman's directorial efforts.

But I've gotta say that this new third sequel/first reboot of 1986's Class of Nuke 'Em High, Return to Nuke 'Em High, Volume 1, doesn't completely do it for me. I was never a crew member on one of Troma's features, but I know the amount of work that goes into these gonzo flicks, even just from being in the same building while the producers and editor toiled over the post-production on Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead for months and months to meet Kaufman's directorial demands. Apart from film director/Troma president Lloyd Kaufman and a few of the actors who make cameo appearances, I do not know the folks who made the two-part Return to Nuke 'Em High.) (I was the company's DVD production manager and main video editor from 2005-06, and some of the featurettes I edited can be found here, here, here, and here. You see, I'm a long time fan of the low-budget trash-art that Troma has distributed and produced for 40 years.

Return to nuke em high volume 2 blu ray dvd combo