🧪 The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989) – Review 🧹☢️

This review goes out to my friend Maddie, she really loved films like this and was looking forward to the remake, here’s to u Maddie.

Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

📺 Watch the trailer for The Toxic Avenger Part II

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⚠️☣️ TOXIC CONTENT WARNING ☣️⚠️

Just like the first film — and somehow even weirder — this sequel is proudly inappropriate. Expect over-the-top gore, graphic cartoon violence, offensive jokes, naked chaos, transphobia, racial caricatures, and unfiltered 1980s midnight-movie trash energy. It’s meant to be outrageous, and it is. So if you’re here for thoughtful nuance… this ain’t it. If you’re here to see a mutant janitor kill people with a mop in Japan, welcome aboard.


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🎬 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

Toxie is back — and this time, he’s going global. Tromaville’s favorite mop-wielding mutant is now a full-blown superhero, bringing law and order to the town in the grossest ways possible. But peace doesn’t last. A mega-evil corporation called Apocalypse Inc. rolls into town and wants to take over. Toxie, now living with his blind girlfriend, is offered the chance to travel to Japan to find his long-lost father. Apocalypse Inc. uses this as an opportunity to take over Tromaville while he’s away.

So yeah — half the movie is Toxie on a bizarre, slapstick-fueled trip through Japan… and the other half is corporate goons destroying everything in sight while waiting for Toxie to return and mop the floor with them. Literally.


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👥 Character Rundown

The Toxic Avenger (Ron Fazio & John Altamura) – Dual actors played Toxie this time, due to on-set problems.

Claire (Phoebe Legere) – Toxie’s blind girlfriend. Somehow still the most grounded person in the movie.

The Chairman of Apocalypse Inc. – The villainous new corporate puppet master of Tromaville.

Toxie’s long-lost dad – …let’s just say it’s not the heartfelt reunion you’d expect.



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⏱️ Pacing / Episode Flow

The movie is split into two halves: Japan and Tromaville. The Japan half? Wacky, long, and drenched in cultural parody. The Tromaville half? Classic Troma chaos, filled with exploding bodies, evil yuppies, and ridiculous one-liners. It’s messy and overly long — and yet, somehow it flies by if you’re into this kind of deranged carnival ride.


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✅ Pros

Toxie’s back and he’s bigger, grosser, and weirder than ever.

The action is cartoonishly violent, and the gore makeup is wild.

The Japan subplot is so bizarre it loops back around to entertaining.

The villains are unapologetically awful and fun to hate.

That soundtrack? Synth mayhem and trombones of doom.



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❌ Cons

There’s so much filler in Japan it feels like an accidental vacation special.

Offensive jokes land harder here — more mean-spirited than satirical at times.

Toxie’s voice and appearance are inconsistent because of the dual actors.

It loses some of the raw charm of the first film by going bigger instead of nastier.



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💬 Final Thoughts

Toxic Avenger Part II is a chaotic sequel that doubles down on absurdity and violence but loses a bit of its edge by trying to go international. It’s less gritty, more slapstick, but still every bit as gleefully grotesque. It’s bloated, offensive, and utterly ridiculous — but if you’re here for mutant mop justice with a side of sushi jokes, this sequel delivers in buckets (of blood).


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⭐ Rating

9/10
Not as tight as the first, but still stupidly entertaining. Toxie remains the toxic king of B-movie madness.


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🚨 Spoiler Warning

Things are about to get messy. And culturally questionable. Let’s dive into the radioactive muck.


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☠️ Spoilers

Toxie leaves Tromaville in search of his long-lost dad, which somehow leads him to Japan. Once there, the film turns into a surreal blend of martial arts parody, fish-out-of-water comedy, and borderline offensive portrayals of Japanese culture. Toxie befriends a sumo wrestler. He helps a group of locals fight off thugs. And somewhere in between, he finds a man who claims to be his father — but the dude’s a jerk and wants nothing to do with him.

Meanwhile, back in Tromaville, Apocalypse Inc. is turning the town into a war zone. They kidnap Claire and fill the streets with crime. With Toxie away, there’s no one to stop them.

But when Toxie returns, it’s on. He fights ninjas. He crushes thugs. He launches mop-fueled vengeance in every direction. In the finale, Toxie storms Apocalypse Inc.’s headquarters, fights through endless goons, and finally comes face to face with the evil Chairman… who gets a gloriously gross comeuppance in classic Troma style.

Toxie saves the day once again — and this time, with international flair.