#Return to nuke em high volume 2 dvd series#

Smart, sexy, and funny, Asta Paredes and Catherine Corcoran are astonishingly game for whatever nonsense the Troma Team has cooked up for their characters to do. Unfortunately, RTNEH1 is schizophrenic in the way that it goes back and forth between mindlessly fulfilling those expectations and cleverly exceeding them.Д«efore we dwell on the film's cons, let's look at the pros. Those are the base requirements any fan is expecting from a Lloyd Kaufman joint. The movie's got boobs, over-the-top practical gore effects (augmented by a little low-budget CGI this time), and enough shticky fourth-wall-shattering meta jokes to make both Pirandello and Mel Brooks proud. You're gonna get high and have a great time whether I give the flick my rubber-stamp of approval here or not. In fact, if you're a Troma fan, stop reading this and go ahead and buy the Blu-ray. Now, for most Troma fans, my little quibbles won't matter.

#Return to nuke em high volume 2 dvd series#

(Ahem.) But, as it stands now, RTNEH1 is largely a series of clever premises that don't always manifest solid punchlines. Granted, since this is just the first half of a two-part epic, I'm sure a lot of the parts left dangling will eventually be brought to a satisfying climax. While Troma movies are not always paragons of economical storytelling, this seems significantly sloppier than most of Kaufman's directorial efforts. But I've gotta say that this new third sequel/first reboot of 1986's Class of Nuke 'Em High, Return to Nuke 'Em High, Volume 1, doesn't completely do it for me. I was never a crew member on one of Troma's features, but I know the amount of work that goes into these gonzo flicks, even just from being in the same building while the producers and editor toiled over the post-production on Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead for months and months to meet Kaufman's directorial demands. Apart from film director/Troma president Lloyd Kaufman and a few of the actors who make cameo appearances, I do not know the folks who made the two-part Return to Nuke 'Em High.) (I was the company's DVD production manager and main video editor from 2005-06, and some of the featurettes I edited can be found here, here, here, and here. You see, I'm a long time fan of the low-budget trash-art that Troma has distributed and produced for 40 years.