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Return to Nuke Em High Volume 1
The film centers on a young couple their the school glee club. Everything becomes chaos when the other guys start to experience mutations. They must face and attempt to resolve terrible circumstance.
7 October 1975, Buffalo, New York, USA
25 March 1987, New London, Connecticut, USA
30 December 1945, New York City, New York, USA
March 23, 2014
Retains a certain B-movie moxie, but its chaotic nature fatigues the film long before it reaches its non-conclusion. Points to Kaufman for the hurricane of sick ideas, but would it kill Troma to show a little patience?January 08, 2014
Because it actively defies and outright ridicules all notions of aesthetic intent, proper form, and moral propriety, this lazy Z-film pastiche is essentially impervious to standard critical evaluation.January 23, 2014
This sort of thing can grow on you, but only if you're not careful.January 08, 2016
Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 is an absurdly entertaining slapstick gore-fest that also manages to effectively pass along a timely message or two along the way.February 09, 2014
A hilarious and fast paced re-visiting to one of Troma's best movie series...January 09, 2014
Mr. Kaufman's talent can be debated, but his love for his job is stamped on every garish, oozy frame.April 08, 2014
There's a big difference between being intentionally ridiculous and coming out hilariously self-aware and being intentionally ridiculous and succeeding in being bad.January 16, 2014
Trashmeister director and co-writer Lloyd Kaufman delivers, if your order includes cracks about Jerry Sandusky and high school shootings along with Troma in-jokes and countless movie references.January 08, 2014
Even if it weren't a quasi-remake of 1986's anarchic Class of Nuke 'Em High, it would still feel borrowed and shoddy: Back is the cheesy green-goo spouting out of heads as students turn "cretin" from toxic food.January 07, 2014
Some clever ideas -- the new Cretins harmonize, setting their atrocities to barbershop quartet numbers -- don't negate the tired, exploitative nature of most of the action.January 10, 2014
Mostly, "Return to Nuke 'Em High'' is an occasionally hilarious series of parodies: "Carrie,'' "Soylent Green,'' "Glee,'' "Cat Ballou,'' you name it.January 10, 2014
Die-hard Troma buffs may be amused by all of this, and by the wink-wink references to such studio icons as the Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman.