It sports a frenzied and freewheeling attitude that none of the follow-ups were able to recapture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2023

Watching The Toxic Avenger isn't about literalism or taking the material seriously as a text; it's about identifying with Troma's defiance of good taste and low culture, therein celebrating its excessive forms of deviancy in all their many violations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2022

The humor is not merely sophomoric and silly, it's aggressively so, and the bargain basement gore effects are over-the-top and excessive.

| May 4, 2017

Leave it to Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz to take typical superhero tropes and twist in to something wonderfully gruesome and absurd.

| Jul 29, 2016

Still manages to trigger disgust and a handful of laughs, representing not only a key Troma financial victory, but it's quite possibly their finest original work.

| Original Score: B | Sep 27, 2014

Cruddy, primal, extremely violent, and fairly entertaining, it captures some of the snot-flicking spirit of the old EC comics.

| Mar 28, 2007

Though it is silly, sleazy, and graphically violent, The Toxic Avenger does hold a bit of warped charm for fans of this sort of thing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 28, 2007

An outlandish mix of gory violence and realistic special effects.

| Mar 28, 2007

It all falls apart after an hour, chunks of the preceding entertainment reappearing as random montages.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2005

It's your basic nerd revenge fantasy, only decked out in gore and over-the-top, bad-taste gags.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2004

[It] may be trash, but it has a maniacally farcical sense of humor, and Tromaville's evildoers are dispatched in ingenious ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2004

The Toxic Avenger tells the humorous story of a geeky weakling who is turned into a superhero when he is slimed by some toxic waste.

| Oct 14, 2003

The Toxic Avenger is an incredibly bizarre flick, combining silly jokes with outrageous gore, but it works.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2003

It's passable entertainment for a while, but even with the short 87 minute running time it starts to feel a bit long in the tooth

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2002

It has crude production values, weak humor, and an inexplicable following.

| Original Score: -1 out of -4..+4 | Jan 1, 2000