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Credits

Director: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman Starring: Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka, Lisa Gaye Screenplay: Gay Partington Terry, Lloyd Kaufman Music: Barrie Guard Tagline: The first superhero from New Jersey is back! Country: USA

The film starts with an introduction by Lloyd Kaufman who talks briefly about how popular Toxie had become with cartoons, comics and toys available of the character.

Toxic Avenger Part 2 tells the further adventures of The Toxic Avenger (Ron Fazio), who after cleaning up the town of Tromaville, New Jersey, finds himself bored with his now peaceful life. That is until his psychiatrist (Ericka Schickel), under orders from evil corporation Apocalypse inc., tells him that all his psychological problems come from not knowing his father, and that she has found him in Japan. So Toxie leaves girlfriend Claire (Phoebe Legere) and his mother (Jessica Dublin) to make his way to Japan. And with the help of lovely Japanese local Masami (Mayako Katsuragi), he is soon reunited with his father Big Mac Bunko (Rikiya Yasuoka). Tragically, with its protector away, Tromaville becomes a victim of Apocalypse INC. and the machinations of its evil chairman (Rick Collins)! Will Toxie return in time to save his hometown?

The director's commentary is by Lloyd Kaufman, and whilst amusing, is very grating at times. Sometimes this is due to his shyster used car salesman's voice and sometimes it's due to his rabbiting on about nothing.
There are comments by three people about the film: Fangoria Managing Editor Michael Gingold talks about his time as an extra on the film (1 minute 54 seconds), Video Hound's Mike Mayo talks about the relevance Troma has in filmmaking, but doesn't do much but fight off his dog (1 minute 47 seconds) and Lisa Gaye, who plays Malfaire in this film, rubbishes on about herself for 2 minutes and 15 seconds.

Toxie 2 on Japanese TV (3 minutes 7 seconds) is an un-subtitled segment taken from a Japanese TV show which features behind the scenes footage, with an accompanying interview with Mayako Katsuragi, who plays Masami in the film. This may have been interesting and funny…if I understood Japanese.

Scenes from The Tromaville Café (4 minutes 51 seconds) is like an adult version of Peewee's Playhouse, with Lloyd Kaufman playing PeeWee, and starring Toxie and Sgt Kabukiman NYPD. Not very funny and really a waste of time.

Toxie: 15 Years Later (3 minutes 50 seconds) is a mockumentary about Toxie: the actor and his life and loves which is pretty funny.
Lloyd Kaufman Autobiography is actually an Advertisement for his book 'All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I learned From The Toxic Avenger'.
Public Service Announcement (3 minutes 36 seconds) offers 90 seconds of a topless girl (plus introduction) to help the viewers interested in onanism get themselves off…might have worked too if they had have gotten an attractive girl.

Public Service Announcement 2 (2 minutes 27 seconds) has Vice President Al Gore (who I didn't realize was an African American) talking about the dangers of global warming, to footage of two hot chicks playing with each others tits. If school had have been like this, I might have been a better person.

Aroma Du Troma (2 minutes) is a montage of Troma films.

Troma Website (17 seconds) is a short commercial for Troma merchandise and the website.

Radiation March (53 seconds) is a ridiculous performance piece protesting against pollution, which is ironic considering what hot air IT is.

Tour of Troma is an interactive piece that shows a picture of the Troma building, with different departments you can visit, which leads to either a lame joke or a clip from a film.