Tales from the Crapper

I saw that movie a long time ago when I was way younger, and this is frankly one of the stupidest movies I have probably ever watched. I can't hardly remember most of it as it was very forgettable, but what I remember seeing was bad.

I mean to be fair, this wasn't meant to be a serious movie as it was meant to be funny, but it just ended up being not funny in slightest coming off as idiotic instead. The only thing that managed to be funny was the name, and a character called the ' crap keeper ', and that's it, everything else was stupid.

I mean I know troma/Lloyd Kaufman can make good movies as they'd made some movies I like or found very funny, but this one? Nope, I honestly say pass on this one, and check out his other movies besides this one.

I'm not sure what to think of this movie. I did enjoy it's low-budget crudeness. I liked the over-dubbed voices. I liked the chintzy special effects. And I liked Lloyd's Crapkeeper costume. But I felt that this movie was at times a strain on the brain to watch. It was a definite step down from Citizen Toxie and Terror Firmer. Yet it was better than The Killer Condom or any of those boring Witchcraft movies Troma is re-releasing. I liked the many cameos and the insipid story lines and the non-stop rude attitude the film portrayed, but at the same time I felt it was hard to watch because of the muddy filming, crappy editing and the sloppy way the stories were brought together. When I talked to Lloyd a year ago, he was quite excited about getting this released. Sorry to say, I was expecting more. But I guess I shouldn't complain. I know I could sit through it again. Two and a half stars.

"Tales from the Crapper" is gory, disgusting, tasteless, offensive, lowbrow and scatological. But that's OK, I was prepared for all that from my previous Troma experiences. What I WASN'T prepared for is that it's also witless, unfunny and boring. Very little of the genuine anarchic spirit of films like "Class of Nuke'em High" has remained intact; in its place, we get ENDLESS fart jokes (to the point where you start wondering if Lloyd Kaufman is going senile, thinking that adults find loud farting so darn hilarious!) and a cynical, shameless exploitation of the viewer, who is essentially investing time and money to see a "film" that even Kaufman himself seems to know should never have been released in the first place. Oh yes, there is plenty of female nudity on display, but let's face it: the average porn film probably offers a better storyline, higher production values, funnier humor, and above all more RESPECT for its intended viewer than this atrocity.

P.S: Kelly Powers AKA Suzi Lorraine (the blonde lesbian student in the "How to make your own movie" segment) is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.

I always knew Troma studios were all about the trash gore and female nudity but this 'movie' was just so hopelessly sloppy and disjointed it was nothing short of pathetic! It's just awkward to watch and really not very fun at all, it's a far cry from the really rocking and anarchic films that they did like Terror Firma, Tromeo and Juliet and the good Toxie movies, those flicks technically weren't vastly different from this one in terms of budget and acting, but they had a kind of fun crazy drive and energy to them, and they were mainly funny because of the fearlessness and enthusiasm of the actors, but this hack-job monstrosity is what I'd call the work of zombie Troma, a studio that in the case of flicks like this, is a shambling corpse of what it could be when it really got its act together and made something actually worth watching, but this is just endless scenes of obnoxious silly gross fart and squelchy noises and overly sexual jokes and situations with curvaceous hot girls taking their clothes off, from what I could gather the movie's main appeal would be to excitable young guys because it sure wasn't very funny, only moment that did make me laugh was the Trey Parker cameo! The majority of it though was just disgusting and brutal and weirdly very dull.. To me it's really not worth bothering with, it may score points for the odd lucky hilarious touch or the many sexy ladies on display, or just for the sheer weirdness, but overall it's a very weak nonsensical endeavour with no real story and just loud gross out nonsense constantly shoved in your face, with Lloyd Kaufman popping up to plug his book every now and then, and it doesn't help at all that it's completely aware of how awful and stupid it is and even tells you so, several times, but all the self-deprecation in the world can't make a bad movie into a good one! It's a bit frustrating because I like Troma and the spirit of what they represent at their best, but this is just plain terrible. Oh and don't be deceived by the cover art no matter what you do, because this sure ain't no fun Creepshlw type flick, it's an anthology in as loose a term as I've ever seen. Just very poor all around and just not fun enough, I love ya Lloyd but you can do better than this, this deserves nothing less than to be flushed!!! X

As a fan of Troma, I thought this would be better. However, like Billy Bob Thorton's character in Bad Santa says, "They can't all be winners". The first film in this two film anthology series is unwatchable and stupid, even by the standards of Troma. The second film is better. It definitely is campy garbage, but amusing campy garbage that has cool cameos and makes fun of Hollywood's pretentiousness. Both of these films are short and the rest of the movie has Troma's Grand Poobah Lloyd Kaufman chewing up the scenery, making bad jokes and acting like an imbecile. Which would have been fine, but he does it for way too long and wears out his welcome quick. Tales From The Crapper does have plenty of boobage, gore, as well as an overdose of camp and super lowbrow humor. Most of what is contained here is not funny, or entertaining like a good bad film should be. It is just bad. There are plenty of other titles from Troma that are much better viewing choices. For example, in their own way films like The Toxic Avenger and Redneck Zombies are brilliant. I can only recommend this pile of crap to Troma's most die-hard of fans, who probably watched this 12 times already.