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Class of Nuke 'em High II
(College/Camp/Toxic) 1*skulls
*Blood* *Violent* *Strong Language* *Sexual Situations* *Nudity* *Very Gory*
1993/Color/83 Min./Media Home Video & Fox Home Video & Troma, Inc./ Rated
Director...........Eric Louzil (Fortress of Amerikkka, Lust for Freedom)
Screenplay......Lloyd Kaufman, Eric Louzil, Carl Morano,
Marcus Roling, Jeffery W. Sass, & Matt Unger
Music.............Bob Mithoff
Additional Songs by Sweet Little Roxana, Dan Syke, Paul Short,
& Lloyd Kaufman
Producer.........Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman
Executive Producers.....Masahiro Ebisawa, Sammy O. Masada,
& Tetsu Fujimura
Original Story by Lloyd Kaufman, Carl Morano, & Matt Unger
Special Creature Construction and Animation Brett Piper & Alex Pirnie
"Greenie" the Weenie Man Created by Gary Young
Dramatis Personae
(Not Available) Brick Bronski
Lisa Gaye
Leesa Rowland
Michael Kurtz
Scott Resnick
Shelby Shepard
Phil Rivo
Mark Richardson
Tromie the Nuclear Squirrel
Critique: There are troopers dressed in blue who seem to do nothing. The makers of this film like jokes. Like jokes do, this film falls pretty flat. The fat money man with the high voice is just impossible, as the funny "over-the-top" emoting in this dreadful sequel makes the viewer yearn for the sober professionalism of its predecessor. Even in this utter disaster he stands out as particularly lame. In essence, this appears to be a porno movie with less sex and nudity. In the tradition of that genre, the "plot" of the film merely frames the content, there, lame sex, here lame-ness. In this more expensive version of the first, the camp takes over over completely, with sad results. Indeed, they spent some money on this foolishness. First the apostacy of a Three Stooges allusion in the first part and now Yeats! They turn a Yeats quote into a "head" quote: Come away O human child! To the waters and the wild,-- W.B. Yeats. Come away subhumanoid Child to the waters and the wild.-- M.T. Head. Awful. These fools spent God knows how much money on this idiocy. What happened? If your viewing partner starts to sneak out, trap her/him. You're in this together. Compared to the worst of the genre, this is an embarrassing disaster, better than only one horror film we have seen, "Slashed Dreams".
Plot Summary: Tromaville, New Jersey, 1986. Now there is a junior college built inside the nuclear facility. A gigantic mutated rat attacks the college. Roger Smith, a.k.a. Stink, is Troma High's ace reporter, reporting on the rat attack. He recounts how a once thriving research institution fell to ruin. The squirrels were the downfall. Smith lauds the Tromaville squirrels. The muscle bound Smith is a flop with females who generally call him "stink". He is involved in the Marge Simpson-hairdooed professor Holt's psychological experiment along with Victoria, who has a pair of lips in her stomach. The researcher is impressed that Roger seems to have elicited some kind of emotion, presumably pity, from a subhuman. This is apparently unheard of. We get to see how the researcher has produced sub-humanoids through various forms of cross breeding and various sorts of tampering. Roger pines for Victoria. Next we get a filmed scene of the toxic avenger for a while, "Toxy". Roger covers women's basketball, where transfer student Amy is the star until she self-destructs in a pile of toxic foam with the tell tale subhumanoid mouth-stomach. Roger tries to report the sub-humanoid meltdown, but the school paper doesn't accept it, preferring gossip columns. Smith is the butt of constant jokes among Yolk and the other squirrels, but while being picked up from the floor, Victoria, who is working as a janitor, and soon they begin a romance. The super strong Victoria spins Roger around and he is knocked unconscious against a tree, losing her once again. Professor Holt is being pressured by the eunoch-voiced company man to conclude the experiment with the sub-humanoids. The squirrels torment a sub-humanoid until it melts down and little critters start spewing out of its remains. The romance between Roger and Victoria blooms until Roger sees her stomach mouth and is revolted. She runs off dismayed and confused. Roger follows Dean Ocre's voice. Ocre orders the termination of Victoria because of her contamination. A worker rids himself carelessly of radioactive waste and a squirrel crawls into the container. Diane, the editor of the school paper, believes Roger's story that Ocre is holding Holt and Victoria along with mutated creatures will be a hit on her tabloid even though she doesn't believe it's true. The gigantic contaminated squirrel meanwhile lumbers toward the school. The boys start beating Roger for a while until the articulate remnant of the janitor, a melted down sub-humanoid, saves him. Ogre leads a revolt among the students to save professor Holt and Victoria. As the revolt takes place, the giant mutated squirrel lumbers on to the school grounds for the stupid showdown.
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