🧪 The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (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 III

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⚠️☣️ TOXIC CONTENT WARNING ☣️⚠️

If you’re not familiar with Troma by now… this series remains wildly offensive, gleefully inappropriate, and proudly brain-rotting. Expect raunchy jokes, intentionally bad taste, sacrilegious parodies, gore, nudity, transphobia, stereotypes, and zero sense of shame. This movie in particular leans heavy into religious parody and corporate mockery, so if the idea of Toxie battling literal Satan in a tuxedo while children are held hostage sounds like a lot… it is.


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🎬 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

Toxie’s back… again. This time, our favorite radioactive janitor is dealing with depression. Tromaville’s been cleaned up. Crime is down. And he doesn’t know what to do with himself. Worse, his blind girlfriend Claire needs an expensive surgery to regain her sight — but superhero work doesn’t pay the bills.

So, in an act that makes absolutely no sense if you’ve seen the last film, Toxie agrees to become the face of Apocalypse Inc. Yup — the very same evil corporation he blew up before. Suddenly, he’s doing commercials, shaking hands with suits, and selling out left and right.

But surprise — Apocalypse Inc. is still evil. And oh yeah — their leader is literally the Devil.

Yup. This is the movie where Toxie fights Satan.


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👥 Character Rundown

The Toxic Avenger (Ron Fazio) – Now with existential dread and a questionable moral compass.

Claire (Phoebe Legere) – Still blind. Still patient. Still way too good for this series.

Apocalypse Inc. CEO / The Devil (Rick Collins) – Literally Satan. In a boardroom.

The “Dark Side” of Toxie – Yes, they give him an evil side for five minutes. It’s dumb.



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⏱️ Pacing / Episode Flow

If this movie feels cobbled together, that’s because it is. It uses leftover footage from Part II, mixes in new scenes, and somehow stretches it all into a full sequel. The first half is a weird satire of selling out. The second half goes full demon-slaying nonsense. And the third act? Oh boy. We’ll get to that mess in a second.


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✅ Pros

The opening 15 minutes, where Toxie has an existential crisis about being too heroic, are surprisingly fun.

The absurdity of Toxie fighting literal Satan in a neon boardroom is at least memorable.

Rick Collins hams it up gloriously as the Devil-in-a-suit.

Some of the practical effects still slap — even when they make no sense.



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❌ Cons

The entire “Toxie sells out to Apocalypse Inc.” plot makes zero sense given Part II.

Claire’s “I might get sight” subplot is thinly handled and mostly used as guilt bait.

The movie is a patchwork Frankenstein’s monster of scenes and ideas.

The final boss fight is so long and so dumb, it feels like the movie is mocking us.

Every time you think it’s over… it’s not.



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💬 Final Thoughts

Toxic Avenger Part III tries to blend moral satire with the usual gore-soaked chaos — and ends up being the weirdest, messiest entry so far. There are moments of bizarre fun, but the plot crumbles under its own absurdity. Toxie suddenly trusts the same corporation he literally nuked? Claire’s surgery drama is used to justify an arc that makes no sense? And then there’s the fight with Satan, which goes on so long it starts to feel like punishment. I laughed. I cringed. I checked the time.

It’s Troma. It’s trash. It’s… whatever this was.


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⭐ Rating

7/10
Sloppy, confusing, and gloriously dumb — with just enough unhinged charm to survive the mop test.


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🚨 Spoiler Warning

What if your superhero got sad, sold out, and fought the Devil in a laser-filled showdown that felt like it would never end? Welcome to Part III.


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☠️ Spoilers

Toxie is depressed. Tromaville’s peaceful, and he’s out of a job. When Claire says she needs eye surgery, Toxie feels helpless. That’s when Apocalypse Inc. — yes, the same company he literally blew up in the last movie — offers him a deal: be their poster boy and make money.

And somehow… he says yes.

He starts doing commercials. He’s signing autographs. He’s smiling with evil executives. And no one — not even Toxie — seems to remember that this exact company was trying to murder everyone in the last film.

But surprise! They’re still evil. Apocalypse Inc. is run by a man who eventually reveals himself to be the literal Devil. Toxie tries to quit, but they’ve already started corrupting Tromaville again.

Eventually, after a series of increasingly weird showdowns, Toxie faces off against the Devil himself in a big, drawn-out, way too long final battle. It involves explosions, hostages, moral speeches, and multiple fake-out endings. Toxie wins, obviously — but not before the movie drags you through every silly visual trick they could afford.

The film ends with Claire still blind but hopeful, Toxie mopping up evil once again, and a vague suggestion that maybe — just maybe — he won’t fall for the exact same corporate con twice.