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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST B MOVIES EVER MADE
Review: AS GOOD AS THE TOXIC AVENGER
Rating: 
Summary: Class of Nuk'EM High
Review: Class of Nuk'EM High is one of Troma's better movies but that ain't saying much. The movie is very sloppy and looks like there wasn't much time taken into it, but what do you expect from a B movie? Well there is a lot better B movies out there then this one. It is good for a Troma movie and Troma fans will like it but if you hate Troma movies stay away from this one. I really liked "The Toxic Avenger" and I felt this was a let down compared to that film. Troma made two sequels to this and they were even worse.For a Troma this is good,but they haven't yet made a film really good since "The Toxic Avenger".
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Summary: Awesomely bad!
Review: Class of Nuke Em'High is so awesomely bad!!! It is the best 'bad' movie I have ever seen! I have watched this movie over and over for more than 10 years... I know every word and every scene... I can also point out all the mess-up's!! I never get tired of seeing this film!!
Rating:
Summary: The classy "Class of Nuke 'Em High"
Review: Finally, "Nuke 'Em" gets the home video special edition treatment it so mightily deserves! Screw George Lucas and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace! Spend your money with Lloyd Kaufman and Troma! Natalie Portman? Feh! Try Janelle Brady on for size! Darth Maul? "Nuke 'Em" had face-painted weirdo villians over 13 years earlier! A conspiracy by trade-types that causes disaster for all involved? "Nuke 'Em" has it all, baby... The DVD's picture looks a little overcompressed, but we're not talking Geoffrey Unsworth or Jordan Cronenweth-level cinematography anyway... Kaufman's commentary is somewhat boring, but gives a few cool tidbits about the inner-workings of Troma, if that's your bag. The clips from the deleted scenes are "so-what" inducing, but the trailers for the two "Nuke 'Em" sequels are a welcome treat, as is the "Toxic Avenger" trailer. C'Mon Troma! Get "Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown" and "Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid" out on DVD NOW!
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Summary: The classy "Class of Nuke 'Em High"
Review: Finally, "Nuke 'Em" gets the home video special edition treatment it so mightily deserves! Screw George Lucas and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace! Spend your money with Lloyd Kaufman and Troma! Natalie Portman? Feh! Try Janelle Brady on for size! Darth Maul? "Nuke 'Em" had face-painted weirdo villians over 13 years earlier! A conspiracy by trade-types that causes disaster for all involved? "Nuke 'Em" has it all, baby... The DVD's picture looks a little overcompressed, but we're not talking Geoffrey Unsworth or Jordan Cronenweth-level cinematography anyway... Kaufman's commentary is somewhat boring, but gives a few cool tidbits about the inner-workings of Troma, if that's your bag. The clips from the deleted scenes are "so-what" inducing, but the trailers for the two "Nuke 'Em" sequels are a welcome treat, as is the "Toxic Avenger" trailer. C'Mon Troma! Get "Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown" and "Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid" out on DVD NOW!
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Summary: Too much fallout...
Review: I dunno how those Troma guys do it, but somehow they manage to rope me into watching their cheeseball flicks. Well, actually I DO know how they do it: they put together some really good promo trailers. Whenever I see a promising-looking trailer for a Troma flick, I usually end up rushin' out to the rental store to pick that particular title up. And almost invariably, I find the movie a bit of a disappointment (the two exceptions so far: "Toxic Avenger" and "Cannibal! The Musical"). Which is exactly what happened after I saw "Class of Nuke 'Em High". I saw a promo for it on the "Surf Nazis Must Die!" tape I rented the day before (another disappointment, BTW), and found its minute-long depiction of over-the-top weirdness and just plain cheesiness a promising preview of what I could expect from the movie proper.
Sure enough, "Nuke `Em High" had all the appropriately crude special & visual effects, gross-out moments of bizarre ultraviolence (none of which included the Troma-staple head-crushing scene, oddly enough), and ludicrously over-the-top characters I've come to know and love in most cult/trash-cinema "classics" I've viewed. But for some reason these elements when put together in this production didn't quite do it for me. Maybe the lack of a head-crushin' scene was the big difference? One can only wonder...
But while the movie itself may have been somethin' of a wash, there was one fairly entertaining thing about it: Lloyd Kaufman's commentary track. Whenever I take my ear to one of these, I can never tell if the guy's bein' serious or not. He throws out his usual assertion of the collusion between government and big business to make as big a profit as they can at the detriment of the little guy, which is symbolized by the defective nuclear power plant that gets the ball rollin' in this flick. Then he talks about how many of the flick's scenes are based on actual events "ripped from the headlines", which are satirized to such a ludicrous level that it's d@mn near impossible for ya to see the real-life event in the satire. Well, d@mn near impossible without Mr. Kaufman actually spellin' it out for ya in the commentary track that is...
Kaufman also brings up the various staples & themes contained in Troma flicks, like the combining of hot babes and "himbos" with some of the nerdiest losers and the weirdest freakos you'll ever see in low-budget cult cinema. Then there's the blurring of gender identity, which is driven home in one scene where one of the bad guys... er, bad girls uses a urinal in the high school men's room. And another bad guy wearin' lipstick, falsies, and a darling blouse (who, according to Kaufman, was supposed to look a bit more androgynous, but the limited budget wouldn't allow it).
But the most unusual bit of commentary is Kaufman's rambling thoughts on the "Tromettes", AKA the bas-@$$ hotties you see in Troma flicks who take no guff from nobody. He talks about the influence Troma chicks have had in the movie industry, and... well, ya gotta listen to it to believe it. This piece was the point where I couldn't tell if the main man was takin' his labor of love all too seriously, or if he was just pretending to take his movie all too seriously as a goof. In either case, Kaufman's track makes the "Class of Nuke `Em High" DVD worth a rental...
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Summary: Troma classic 4 sure!
Review: I first seen this movie when i was about 10 years old. It really freaked me out with its wierdness but years after, when i got to about 19 years old, i still couldnt get it out of my head. Then i started wondering if its out on DVD, to my surprise, it was! WOW! I thought i was the only one who really dig this film, slapstick humour, perfectly cast characters, some sexy, not to mention, psycho chicks & troma style gore! Even the main characters get in touch with thier darkside's! Its a classic & includes a lot of characters from the toxic avenger movies. Its a classic troma film, & a stand-alone awesome independant film aswell. If u aint seen a Troma film b4, definetly check it out. It bends hollywood rules & goes beyond them! Lloyd Kaufman's a genius! Its a low budget film but some of the special FX will amaze you....By the way, i havent even got the 1 with special features like deleted scenes & commentary, so even more reason to buy this, i am.
Rating:
Summary: Every bit as good as The Toxic Avenger
Review: I have seen this film many times and never get tired of it. I would mention the plot,but who cares about the plot in a film like this? For some reason,this isn't as respected as The Toxic Avenger,and I wonder why. The laughs in this film are nonstop and any comedy fan should check this film out.
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Summary: A classic 80's horror flick
Review: Keeping in line with the tradition of other low-budget, cheesy horror films, Nuke 'Em High leaves the viewer satisfied that he or she has successfully wasted two full hours of their life with nothing to show for it. The movie begins when an overweight manager at a nuclear powerplant attempts to cover up a radioactive spill that contaminates the local water supply. Nuke 'Em High, a highschool located near the plant begins to show the effects of the spill. The preppy kids become mutant degenerants reminicsent of Mad Max. They terrorize all of the other kids and faculty and also begin selling contaminated weed from the power plant to other kids at school. This inadvertantly creates an angry, superhuman jock who spits acid and begins to seek revenge on the mutants. After that scene I sort of lost track of what was going on in the movie. Either I was too intoxicated or too distracted to pay close attention to the plot. The brilliance of this movie is that you don't need to pay close attention to still understand what is going on. In fact I would reccomend not trying to follow the story since it would probably only cause further confusion and frustration. The ending was great and there was, of course, some good nudity scenes as well. I would highly reccomend this movie to anyone who appreciates this sort of genre or just wants to see a mindless, gory movie.
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Summary: CLASS OF NUKE EM HIGH
Review: Let me start off by saying that this is one of the better Troma films but not better than the toxic avenger.Nuke em high is about a nuclear power plant that leaks into Tromaville high causing students to mutate.Thats preatty much the plot without taking about the createns, but this is a Troma movie so who cares about the plot.Fans of Troma will love this but those who don't might want to look eleswhere.Followed but two sequels that shouldn't have ever been made.
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