Themes: Righting the Wronged, Mutants, Americans Abroad
Main Cast: Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka
Release Year: 1989
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Ron Fazio returns as The Toxic Avenger, "the first hideously deformed monster hero of superhuman size and strength ever to come from New Jersey," in Troma's mercenary sequel to its hit film The Toxic Avenger. Since Toxie cleaned up Tromaville, New Jersey in the first film, he now has no one to fight. He works at the Tromaville Center for The Blind and has a girlfriend named Claire (Phoebe Legere). But the peace in Tromaville is shattered when an evil chemical company, Apocalypse Inc., and its dastardly chairman (Rick Collins), set their sights on Tromaville. In order to take over Tromaville, the Toxic Avenger must be eliminated. By intense study, Apocalypse's second-in-command, Maifaire (Lisa Gaye), discovers that Toxie's desire to vanquish villains is caused by particles manufactured in his body called "tromatons." Apocalypse Inc. bribes Toxie's psychiatrist to suggest that Toxie form a relationship with his father in order to get Toxie out of the country. His father happens to be in Japan and Toxie makes the trip to find him. While out of sight of his hometown, Apocalypse Inc. takes over Tromaville. Meanwhile, in Japan, Toxie finally finds his father but it turns out that his father is an arch-villain who must be killed. "Anti-tromatons" employed in the battle with his father render him weak and wounded, but a team of sumo wrestlers nurse him back to health and Toxie travels back to New Jersey for a confrontation with Apocalypse Inc. in Tromaville. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Cast
Ron Fazio - Toxic Avenger
John Altamura - Toxic Avenger
Phoebe Legere - Claire
Rick Collins - Apocalypse Inc. Chairman
Rikiya Yasuoka - Big Mac
Lisa Gaye - Malfaire; Mayako Katsuragi - Masami; Shinoburyu - Shockikuyama; Jessica Dublin - Mrs. Junko; Erika Schickel - Psychiatrist; Jackie Cooper - Mr. Junko; Tsutomu Sekine - Announcer
Credit
Alex Grey - Art Director, Michael Herz - Co-producer, Lloyd Kaufman - Co-producer, Michael Herz - Director, Lloyd Kaufman - Director, Michael Schweitzer - Editor, Barrie Guard - Composer (Music Score), James London - Cinematographer, Pericles Lewnes - Special Effects, Lloyd Kaufman - Screenwriter, Gay Partington Terry - Screenwriter
The Toxic Avenger Part II is a 1989 film released by Troma Entertainment. It was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and features The Toxic Avenger in an adventure to Japan to meet his father. It was not as well received as the original. However, the movie has recently received cult status among a new audience almost a generation after it was first released. MangakaGo Nagai makes a cameo appearance and the film is also the debut of actor/martial artist Michael Jai White.
5 years after the events of the original film, The Toxic Avenger is lured to Tokyo, Japan by the evil corporation Apocalypse Inc. So while the Toxic Avenger is fighting crime in Tokyo, Apocalypse Inc. spread evil in Tromaville and it is up to the famous hideously deformed superhero of superhuman size and strength to stop the abominable Apocalypse from attacking both Tokyo and Tromaville.
Cast
Ron Fazio as The Toxic Avenger / Apocalypse Inc. Executive
The 'Unrated Director's cut' version released on DVD by Troma is actually missing almost all scenes of gore. The full version with an extra 10 minutes of gore is currently only available in the 'Tox Box' dvd set which is now out of print. The Japanese and German releases are the full uncut version. The 2008 'Complete Toxic Avenger' 7 disc DVD set includes the uncut version and is the same disc found in the 'Tox Box.' However, there are reports of the heavily cut version occasionally being included in the 'Complete Toxic Avenger.' This may be due to the fact that nowhere on the disc art or DVD do the words 'Director's Cut' appear. The unedited "Director's Cut" can be told apart from the edited version by checking the feature running time, or by listening to the audio commentary by director Lloyd Kaufman. The commentary track is different for both versions, and the director mentions which cut is shown.
