Troma’s golden era was from 1994 to 2006. Tromeo and Juliet and Terror Firmer (my favorite) are undoubtedly their best movies because, yes, they’re still Troma — but these actually qualify as genuine cinematic endeavors. You can mostly attribute that to Lloyd Kaufman finding James Gunn and the two going on an absolutely insane creative run together.
Most of the humor in this movie is dated — late-era South Park jokes that weren’t funny even when South Park did them a decade ago. And with their modern movies, everything looks too video-y. I get it — it’s no-budget filmmaking — but this movie sucks.
Yeah, I know Lloyd Kaufman is pretty old and might die soon, but if this is his final film? It’s a bad one.
Troma’s golden era was from 1994 to 2006. Tromeo and Juliet and Terror Firmer (my favorite) are undoubtedly their best movies because, yes, they’re still Troma — but these actually qualify as genuine cinematic endeavors. You can mostly attribute that to Lloyd Kaufman finding James Gunn and the two going on an absolutely insane creative run together.
Most of the humor in this movie is dated — late-era South Park jokes that weren’t funny even when South Park did them a decade ago. And with their modern movies, everything looks too video-y. I get it — it’s no-budget filmmaking — but this movie sucks.
Yeah, I know Lloyd Kaufman is pretty old and might die soon, but if this is his final film? It’s a bad one.
