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By the way this started I thought it was gonna be better than 2...maybe not better than 1 but better than 2. From the opening scene, however, it goes way downhill. Very disappointing since some of TOxie's greatest, goriest, and funniest kills are shown in the opening scene. Theat scene is seriously the ONLY gore scene in the film, except a little at the end. The rest is turned into some type of "family" comedy. Not for the family, but a regular comedy. Some of the jokes are funny, when Toxie is talking like a tennis player...cracks me up. But most of the jokes fall flat. It is, however, still fun to see Toxie kill the bad guys. We just want it with more gore. This film barely even has any nudity! Troma without nudity is like Easter without eggs! Come on Troma is known for their gore and nudity. Basically needed in most Troma films with some exceptions...like Kabukiman. However the other Toxic Avengers had it and it is missing. There is a n homage to the original in this one though, about his Mother-In-Law. Classic. Overall, not horrible but not great. Seen a lot of better Toxic films. Worth a watch if you are a Troma fan.

This was not as good as the second by a long way. In fact it was bordering on boring. There wasn't enough violence, it moved too slowly and there wasn't enough dancing. It does complete the trilogy except the fourth one that Toxie mentions in this film. Worth making time for if you have seen the first two and want to finish the story. It is a deliberately bad movie.

The third TOXIC AVENGER film (aka LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE, 1989) by Herz/Kaufman pair is not too interesting anymore because it seems to rely more and more on the inept "humor" that would be found in the many other Troma films, too, but which was much more intelligent and critical in the frist TOXIC. Still the third part includes even Satan and an internal moral fight of the protagonist mutant which are welcome additions to the dramatic structure of the monster story! There are some nice and even clever camera tricks and angles (like the school bus terror) and naturally lots of ridiculous sexual situations and (some) ultra gore, but when compared to the originality and great dialogue of the first movie and the ultra wild and still pretty fresh feel of the second part, this third movie seems more and more just a money taker and not so great a (trash) movie anymore. Usually if a sequel has many segments or scenes from a previous film (usually from part one), that tells something about the obvious lack of new ideas and in addition to this sequel in question, that can also be found among others in an awful Sonny Chiba sequel to his Japanese karate flick THE STREET FIGHTER (1974), THE RETURN OF THE STREET FIGHTER (1975). These films don't have anything else in common for sure but both sequels tell the same thing.

The previous two Toxic Avenger films managed a total 5 points out of a potential 20 from me so it goes without saying that Troma hardly have a fan here.

The companies most famous character returns for a third and perhaps worst outing. Here Toxie sells his soul to the devil in order to raise the money for his girlfriends eye surgery, and that's basically it.

Unlike part 2 there aren't even any purile gags to be found here and the whole thing is cringe inducing. If a 5yr old were given money to have a movie filmed based on their writing I'm pretty sure this is what it'd look like.

Toxic vomit, men in tutus, another awkward Toxie sex scene and random dog people are to be found and little else. Childish, dumb and I can't believe there is another one and that I'm going to watch it.

The Good:

Consistent cast

The Bad:

Simply not funny

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Intestines make great skipping ropes

Tattoo removal in the 80's was savage!

Redneck Zombies was not a Disney film

I'm probably the only person that likes this installment. Even Kaufman himself doesnt care for it but I like this one. I can't really compare it to part II becuase c'mon..it's pretty much the same movie just a 2nd half. Toxie III is the 2nd half of an overlong movie that was split down the middle. It opens with an awesome scene a video store with Troma posters covering the place , some bonehead criminals pop in to cause trouble attacking the role Troma plays on consumer favorites like anything released by Warner Bros and MGM. It's also an attack on how mainstream chain video stores like Movie Gallery and Blockbuster are driving independent mom n pop video stores out which always have an awesome variety of movies..especially low budget horror on their shelves. Toxie bust in as a symbol of Troma's stance on cleaning up these corporations with some grissly death scenes..ahh how funny jump roping with intestines is. After this Toxie isnt having as much fun as he used to , he's resorted to stopping old ladies from cheating at cards..to getting kids to eat their lima beans. That annoying girlfriend Claire can get her eyes corrected with an operation..all Toxie needs is money. He signs a deal with Apoclypse Inc the corporation he ran out in Part II and gets her the operation.. And so Toxie becomes the most horrible thing of all..a yuppie. Clearly taking a stab at the Reagan era spoiled brats Toxie III has the least action in the series..in fact the entire middle is pretty lifeless until the chairman (again Rick Collins) reveals himself to be none other than the Devil himself and challenges Toxie to the Levels Of Doom. In the end..you'll just have to see it. Definitly not the best in the series..but hey..it's got it's moments see it anyway...but probably only really worth it in the Unrated Directors Cut since the R version omits most of the gore in the first half.

Continuing my descent into Troma's Toxic Avenger saga, I've arrived at the third film: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE. In reality this movie is less a "Part III" and more a "Part II, Part II" because, as I've learned, writer/director Lloyd Kaufman originally intended for the second and third parts (as we know them) to be one big sequel instead of two small ones. He ended production with too much material and made the decision to split it into two movies. TOXIC AVENGER II makes slightly more sense now in retrospect. In that movie, the evil Apocalypse Inc. establishes itself as the big bad corporate villain with its eyes set on ruining Tromaville and the environment before disappearing while the Toxic Avenger toyed around in Tokyo for the bulk of the run time. In TOXIC AVENGER III, we return to that plot thread except now the timeline is all screwy. Let me see if I've got this straight…in PART II, Apocalypse Inc. goes full evil right from the start with an attack on the Toxic Avenger and all his blind friends. Before Toxie can retaliate, Apocalypse Inc. creates a diversion with rumors of Toxie's father living in Tokyo. After all that Japan business is concluded, Toxie returns home in time to stop a bomber/assassin that Apocalypse Inc. hired to blow up…something. At the start of PART III, we jump into Toxie cleaning up the damage Apocalypse has done to the town starting with a local video rental store that's being shaken down by Apocalypse goons.

Then we flashback (for some reason) to a week prior when the whole plot of PART III kicks off: Toxie feels guilty that he's not contributing financially to the toxic household (he and blind girlfriend Claire are living off her government assistance). Claire receives a letter in the mail promoting an experimental surgery that can restore her eyesight and Toxie get s a job at Apocalypse Inc. to foot the cost of the procedure. Let me repeat that: he gets a job with Apocalypse Inc. The evil conglomerate that murdered all his blind friends in the opening of PART II and tried to murder a bunch more people with a bomb on a motorcycle. He completely disregards their evil nature and gets a job with them as their spokesperson, and then he wonders why everyone in town has turned on him. The third film's subtitle, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE, refers to Toxie's employment with Apocalypse and his eventual redemption when he realizes what everyone else already knew: Apocalypse is evil and he's a sell-out. The plot, while slightly more complex than that of PART II, is still incredibly simplistic and stupid. We know from the very beginning what's going to happen: it's all going to culminate in a final battle of the Toxic Avenger versus Satan. If the title wasn't obvious enough, the poster art featuring the Toxic Avenger duking it out with the Dark One should be a solid giveaway. Writing is not Troma's strength. Trust me, I get that at this point.

My point is that Troma works best when it goes full force into the crazier material: brutal graphic violence against criminals and scantily clad women. Seeing as how this and PART II were originally meant to be one complete film, it really feels like it wasn't split evenly in terms of content. PART II is almost entirely insane, creative (and often stupid) action sequences linked together with the most meager of story threads, and PART III is mostly poorly written story bookended with an action scene at the beginning (in the video rental store) and the final battle with the devil (which accounts for almost a third of the movie by itself). The entire middle section of the film relies on the subpar plot of Toxie working for Apocalypse and becoming a yuppie. This means that entire segment is dependent on Troma's brand of…ugh…"comedy." This fails because Troma's (or at least writers Kaufman and Gay Partington Terry) brand of humor is lame jokes you'd expect from an out-of-touch uncle. For example, one such "rip-roarer" comes with one of Toxie's earliest attempts at employment as an agent of the Internal Revenue Service. Toxie, with a suit and briefcase, approaches a home and he's run off when the family starts throwing anything they can find at the taxman (mostly clothes hangers and Easter baskets for some reason). Isn't it hilarious! People hate taxes! What about the part when Toxie awkwardly uses "Wall Street" lingo on the phone! Isn't that just so wacky! I didn't think so either.

If you can suffer through almost an hour of that, you arrive at the final battle against Satan who, no surprise, was head of Apocalypse the whole time. There's a glimmer of hope as he reveals his true form through some good ol' Troma effects. Once he arrives, Satan decides he wants to torment Toxie in the style of a video game as weakly foreshadowed in an early scene where Toxie is playing some arcade game with a generic title like "Five Levels of Doom." As cool as that sounds, any enthusiasm I managed to muster was quelled when I realized it wouldn't be anywhere near as cool as promised. Regardless, that final battle and opening video store fight are enough to find something worthy of recommendation here. This is definitely the worst Toxic Avenger film I've seen. There's no denying that. It has its moments: the Devil transformation, some of the gore effects, and surprisingly Phoebe Legere. She didn't contribute much to PART II but I enjoyed her a lot more this time around. It's probably because they actually gave her something relevant to do. She even gets a crack at an inspiring speech when she's not bumbling around wildly. But the bottom line is that THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE is a major fumble and fails to meet even Troma's already lower standards.

The best thing about Toxic Avenger Part III is the poster art. The film starts off pretty good with a fight at Tromaville Video. This is probably the highlight of the movie. Make sure you watch the Unrated version as the R Rated version removes almost all of the gore.

Once again Toxie has rid Tromaville of all evil, or so he thinks. What is an out of work superhero to do? Toxie signs a contract with Apocalypse Inc. To make enough money to buy his girlfriend an operation that will restore her eye sight. Corporate Toxie becomes blind to what is going on right under his nose in Tromaville. He's letting the bad guys takeover his town. His girlfriend convinces him to finally open his eyes, and he realizes that he's sold his soul to the Devil. To break the contract Toxie must play the Seven Levels of Doom and win or the Devil himself will rule over Tromaville and Toxie's friends.

This entry is the most disappointing of the series, and much like Part II, I really enjoyed this film when I was younger. Toxic Avenger Part III hasn't held up very well, and will probably have the greatest appeal to those who are viewing it for the first time.

On this third sequel the priceless Toxie strikes again for my happiness to watch so trash movie, a lot of insanity,bad acting for every characters, awful and laughable special effects, silly and poor plot, disgusting sometimes, however never boring, instead we have the sexy Phoebe Legere as Claire who on small clothes enchant everyone, those bad hot girls along the picture have a nice atmosphere of sensuality and nonsense in this amazing trash!!! Looking foward and praying to be available in official version of all collectors in Brazil shotly.

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First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD-R / Rating: 5

As somebody who for the first time just got to watch all of the Toxic Avenger films back to back, it is all too obvious that splitting the original 2nd film into two films was a rather big mistake. While this film does have some of the best moments in the Toxic Avenger series, the film feels flat due to the major lack of action in the film overall.

There are several very good moments in the film however worth seeing. The opening videostore heist, containing what has got to be the weirdest (and funniest) cardboard cutout joke I've ever seen in my life, along with a obvious kick in the shins to what would later be known as the "Media Cartel" courtesy of Lloyd Kaufman. Another classic is obviously the end fight between Troma's rendition of the Ultimate Evil and Toxie.

Overall, for fans of Toxie and Troma this is a mandatory viewing. However, I have to agree with Stan Lee's opening narration of Citizen Toxie when parts 2 and 3 were disowned.

After a recap of the last two Toxic Avenger movies, the cartoon violence starts in a local video rental outlet, where the goons of the evil cooperation are out to take over the small mom and pop business, but Toxie puts an end to that. After much cartoon bloodshed, we flash back to when Toxie is going out of his mind because all the evil is gone from Tromaville. He has to resort to stopping old ladies from cheating at cards and making naughty kids eat their Lima beans. To compound this his girlfriend needs an operation to restore her sight. A financially strapped Toxie has to swallow his pride and go to work as an IRS man, video store worker, muffler salesman, and eventually as a spokesman for the evil Apocalypse Inc. This film manages to be worse than even Part 2, by having less action. The dumbing down of the franchise was complete. TRUE fans of Toxie would have to wait till "Citizen Toxie" for a good B-movie as the didn't find it with the first two sequels.

My Grade: D-

DVD Extras: Intro and Commentary by director Lloyd Kaufman; Second commentary by CineSchlocker, Joe Fleishaker; Interviews with Rick Collins, Ron Fazio, Gay Terry, Tracey Mann, and Joe Fleishaker; The stars of Toxic Avenger 3 on the set of Citizen Toxie; Anthology film Achrive screening footage; Naked Dance of the Damned Fat (a 2 and a halm minute putrid short); the same damn Radiation March that's on EVERY Troma DVD; a fake Troma shopping network skit; A look back at Tromadance 2000; Poster and art gallery; 'Where in the World is Toxie?' click various sites on a world map for footage from Troma's many festival visits; Theatrical trail; and trailers for "The Toxic Avenger", "The Toxic Avenger 2", "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV" & "Terror Firmer"

Easter Egg: In the 'where in the world is Toxie?' menu there's a hidden X below the Indian Ocean, click on it to find out where Lloyd Kaufman is

As i've said in my reviews for the first two films, you can't take these films and compare them to a "classic" as thats not the point. I don't normally like cheesey films but found the first three to be laugh out load funny. Maybe i've a screw loose but I just think they're great. Again, i'm not going to give the plot out because I don't feel like it. And i'm not going to say whats good and whats bad (mostly because I couldn't think of anything bad). If you really aren't bothered about the film, watch it and point out the continuity and poor acting. If you don't watch to enjoy or nitpick, watch for Phoebe (oh phoebe). She is by far too talented to be in a film like this but boy does she look good. Basically, just watch the film... You might not like it, but it's only a film.

I recently rewatched Toxic Avenger 3: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989) on Tubi. The storyline follows Toxie, who is once again bored after clearing Tromaville of all its crime and is left looking for direction. When a corporation offers to fix Toxie's girlfriend's eyesight in exchange for him taking a job as their spokesman, it seems like a no-brainer...until he discovers the corporation's owner is out for world domination. Toxie may need to choose between his girlfriend's eyesight and humanity.

This film is co-written and co-directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, who also worked together on Toxic Avenger 1 and 2. The picture stars Ron Fazio (Toxic Avenger 2), Phoebe Legere (King of New York), Jessica Dublin (Death Has Blue Eyes), John Altamura (Heaven Becomes Hell), and Rick Collins (Return to Nuke 'Em High: Volume 1).

These films always do a fantastic job of not taking themselves seriously, featuring cool costumes, fun settings, and lots of gore. Unfortunately, this is another step down from the previous picture and a huge step down from the first film. The opening video store sequence is awesome and probably my favorite part of the film. Phoebe Legere looks great in this, and her sex scene with Toxie was...interesting. The apocalypse storyline had potential and was an interesting direction, but I wish they had made his costume better. His fight at the end wasn't as epic as it should have been. However, this is still a fun watch for diehard fans of the series.

In conclusion, Toxic Avenger 3: The Last Temptation of Toxie has enough worthwhile content for fans of the series but is a huge step down from the first two films. I would score this a 6/10 and recommend seeing it once.

30th Anniversary: 1989 - the Best Year in Cinema Marathon Film #85/100: "The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie" (1st Viewing.) Funny about these movies - oh, they're bad and the humor mostly is flat and obvious...but every once in awhile, a joke will land and I WILL find myself laughing out loud. Probably not for an overall recommendation, but maybe for those who love extreme b-movie, exploitation, goofy parodies. I can't say for sure, but because of those rare LOL moments and an actual coherent plot, this might be the best Toxie movie to date.

Couple of funny mentions: I'm doing this 1989 "Best Year in Cinema" marathon, as mentioned above, and I'm watching a dead-even 50 new to me films and 50 seen by me at least once and all in chronological order. This one was hilariously and truthfully sandwiched in-between My Left Foot and The Little Mermaid of all movie. Talk about a dip in quality in the middle!

Also, this was probably the one time I didn't mind seeing Trump's ugly mug show up/cameo. In a quick, blink and you'll miss it scene, "his" Art of the Deal book is shown as Toxie was rising in power as a Big City Businessman. Hell, Toxie even acts as an evil landlord at one point, the evil organization has a "Agent Orange" scheme and Toxie marries what appears to be the mockery of Ivana Trump. So, they're really saying - so far ahead of its time - that Trump is a monster, disgusting on the inside and out. That alone should grant this movie an extra star.

Despite what people will say this is another great Toxic Avenger movie. Part 2 & 3 were made as one so this movie takes place right after the first. Putting Toxie in a yuppie nightmare was a very smart and funny thing to do. I loved the fact that they turned toxie back into a 90 pound weakling(although i wish they would have used Mark Torgle). The beginning was a really good! If you haven't seen this movie you might be afraid by some of the other comments on this movie but don't be. It's a great movie about the temptations of Toxie. Satan is the main bad guy!! How can you not like this movie? A toxic avenger movie with Satan as the main bad guy, what's not to like? Anyways if you haven't seen this movie please go buy it, not rent it, buy it. GO BUY The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie!

Toxie has cleaned Tomaville from the evils, but he know has nothing to do, and he needs a job, so, the president of apocalypse Inc. contracts him as a public relation's manager. Toxie learns ho tempting and bad can be having too much money. Will all this pleasure tempt Toxie and make him forget his duty? Well, despite the two movies before are quite bad, but funny, this one is totally awful. The movie has nonsense, all the scenes are pathetic and forced and Toxie has lost his sense of crudely smashing the bad ones. There's almost no violence, as most of the film could be considered for all publics. In addition, there's some enormous holes in the plot, as, for example, the name of the company of the bad ones: it's the same that Toxie fought and destroyed on the second part!! It's a film to avoid to see, even if you're Toxie Fan!

Oh what a disappointment!! After the hilarious second installment I was really excited when I finally got to see this one. And when it started I was very excited. We get to see a man's intestines ripped out and used a skipping rope then used to strangle another man. We also get to see a man's hand shoved into a VHS player and then gruesomely decapitated (while Troma get a bit of advertising in as well)!! Unfortunately after this it slowly started getting boring. Although the jokes were there (and some very funny) there just wasn't enough gore for a Toxic Avenger movie. Not until the hilarious ending did we see anymore disgusting gore. And what an ending! We get to see Toxie battle the Devil himself!! Although he is green and fish-like.....

2/5. A tad disappointing but still a pretty funny movie.

TA 1 was a great movie. TA 2 and TA 3 were bad, even for fans of the Troma genre. Not enough stupid gory action and too many bad jokes and unfunny idiocy. From now on, I'm only watching TA 1 ever again. A serious let down by Troma. We need more gore, more action, more nudity, and less intentional comedy. TA 2 and TA 3 prove that it's not exactly easy to make a movie so bad it's good. Troma was trying too hard on 2 & 3 and they're just not the same as the excellent TA 1. Troma should attempt to make a serious horror movie. Their attempted comedy just isn't working. If they attempt something serious, I'm sure it will be entertaining and hilarious. Better luck to the great Troma studio.

Only for hardcore Troma fans and even most of them don't like it. 3/10

I consider myself to be a fan of Troma films ever since catching some on late night UK TV, but this is a lesser effort. It uses leftover footage from the second movie, as well as highlights from the first film. I am a fan of the first film and the second one is ok-ish. I don't know if I just wasn't in the mood for it or didn't have the right amount of stimulants, but this is for the most part just plain bad.

It lacks the gore of the first two films. This is understandable as the first two films had difficulty securing an R rating for video and theatres. Not to mention the kid friendly Toxic Crusaders TV series would have been in the pipeline. Like a lot of Troma films it has goofy humour which is more irritating than amusing in this one. You can excuse the low budget and I actually think some of the set design and costumes look really good. However, when the actors are told to stand around and point and laugh for two minutes, it's just bad film making and not so bad it's good either. There's also the nearly two hour runtime to consider.

I can appreciate the green devil and the original take on Dante's Inferno; which has been done better since in The Devil In Miss Jones sequels and Deconstructing Harry. Other than that it's hugely disappointing. Troma did go onto redeem themselves with an absolute cracker in the form of Tromeo & Juliet. These films no doubt have their fans, but it would have made for a wasted Blockbuster rental back in the days to all, but the most ardent fans.

When we last saw the first and only superhero from New Jersey with superhuman size and strength, he was returning from his journey of self-discovery in Japan to banish the evil Apocalypse Inc. corporation from his home town of Tromaville. The Toxic Avenger Part II was certainly a sluggish affair, but contained enough genuinely funny moments - specifically watching the terrified Japanese public run from the hideous monster - to justify its existence. Troma being Troma, they were never going to let their most famous and bankable character disappear after just one sequel, and in fact they released Part III, subtitled The Last Temptation of Toxie, later the same year. Yet clearly the brainstorming sessions didn't produce anything of note, as this third entry is not only clearly out of ideas, but uses deleted scenes from the previous instalment to stitch together what they obviously feel passes for a plot.

It begins much in the same way as before, with Tromaville living a peaceful existence due to Toxie's successful efforts to banish crime once and for all. While he previously passed his time working at the home for the blind, Apocalypse Inc. saw the end to all that when they blew it up. Now, Toxie (played by Ron Fazio and John Altamura) sinks into a deep depression due to sheer boredom, spending most of his time moping around the junkyard he calls home with his loyal blind wife Claire (Phoebe Legere). When the chairman of Apocalypse Inc. (played by Rick Collins) learns that Toxie needs $357,000 to pay for an operation to restore Claire's sight, he takes advantage, employing the superhero as his assistant and enforcer, manipulating him into keep the town's residents in line and ensure that Tromaville can be used as the company's toxic waste dumping ground.

It's a re-hash of everything that came before, which almost feels like a slap in the face for those of us who stuck with Part II to the very end, despite its exhaustive running-time. There's almost a complete absence of genuine wit, with returning directors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz relying mostly of goofy slapstick and cheap effects to bulk up the running-time (which again runs at a painful 100 minutes). It's at its best when Toxie is disposing of bad guys, starting with a scuffle at a video store in which the disfigured brute mutilates and executes a gang in various horrific ways, including mincing one of their hands in a VHS player while onlookers scream in terror, in a set-piece that will have you questioning his status as a 'hero'. But with Troma's notoriously tight budgets, these moments are in short supply. The climax aims to up the daftness factor as high as it will go, but after 30 minutes of watching bad gore effects followed by the reactions of the shocked crowd gathering to watch, you'll likely wish that you were the one getting their head smashed to a pulp.

Toxic Avenger, part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989) is basically the left overs from Toxic Avenger II. The film-makers at Troma took what was left from the first sequel and patched them together to make another film. As a quilt work film, the results are pretty satisfying. It's not horrible but on the other hand, it's no great shakes either. The film is essentially the second half of a three hour movie. If you're a huge Toxic Avenger fan, then this film's for you. Others need not apply.

Lloyd Kaufman and company decided to make a couple of extra bucks when they released this movie. He should go back and edit the two together a make an epic version of this movie instead of having a movie that's basically 75 percent filler.

Recommended for Troma film fans only

After the disastrous "TA 2" I was hoping that this would be a vast improvement. It is an improvement all right, but in no way a vast one. The film starts out well, with an amusing fight scene taking place in a Troma video store owned by a Hasidic Jew. And I liked the premise: Toxie sells his soul to the Devil, and ends up working against the citizens of Tromaville, when he's supposed to be working for them. But the novel premise goes dry too quickly, and we're bombarded with much of the same hijinks we've seen in the past two "TA" flicks. And the worse things is...there's no gratuitous nudity!!! Yes, I'm whining because of the lack of nudity, and since this is a Troma flick I have the right to. Boobs are one of the essential components of a good Troma movie.

The film definitely has its moments, but overall it's way too dull to recommend. I'd better recommend you check out the original "Toxic Avenger." Hopefully, "Citizen Toxie" will be much better. The previews look great!

My score: 5 (out of 10)

After finishing The Toxic Avenger Part II they found out that it was over three hours long so they decide to split the film into two so The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie is the second half of Part II and it does have a few longer segments from Part II like the love making scene. The gore is limited again but the gore scenes that are shown are good like the hand in the VCR. An interesting thing about Part III is that Toxie is now working for the Apocalipse Inc but it's not long before he becomes good again.

Part II and III are one film cut in two and I find that to be very cleaver. The Toxic Avenger Part III is worth a watch and you may even enjoy Part II and Part III.

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie is a much better instalment in the trilogy compared to the previous one, although that does not completely exonerate it of its own issues.

First off, the overtly ridiculous levels of humour and gore are fixed from the cartoonishness and bloodlessness of the second one; traded back for better comedic timing with more spaced jokes and gags, as well as some really impressive practical effects and gore effects. No where is this better identified than in the opening scene, which wastes no time in quickly reinvigorating interest in what made these films so intoxicating to begin with. Moreover, the Toxie voice is still done by Ron Fazio, however it is noticeably tuned down to be more in line with the initial idea of the character being relatable and inspiring rather than just being the former. And the character of Claire is much less insufferable this time around, now walking a frustrating balance of being the heart of the film and a source for one too many sexually driven comedic gags. Furthermore, the return of Rick Collins' villain The Chairman is a fantastic delight to behold, as Collins has proved himself to be a highly entertaining overactor and makes for a great final boss for the franchise. Additionally, the story makes great use of timely themes of corporate takeovers and 'yuppie' culture; it is a small effort, but it is appreciated nonetheless. The pacing is much slower in comparison to the other entries, but rather than feeling overlong like it's immediate predecessor, it instead comes across as deliberately paced.

In saying that, however, there are very large connect clues that this film and The Toxic Avenger Part II were initially supposed to be one movie, cut in half for one reason or another. This is most likely the source of the issues surrounding the fact that the second one carried so many pacing and runtime issues, as well as this one being incredibly light on action throughout almost the entirety of the second act. On another note, Michael J Kaplan's performance replacing Mark Torgl as Melvin was noteworthy in his insufferably annoying depiction. And the ending was especially ludicrous, even by this series' standards, with Tromaville being saved by the most unlikely of forces making for an immensely underwhelming end to the overarching antagonists of Apocalypse Inc and the film itself.

Overall, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie turned out to be repetitive, ridiculous and most surprisingly, relevant. Although, at least this time it was moreso on brand with what the first film was aiming for.

I usually judge a movie by how many times I fall asleep watching it but this one is different.This one took me several days to watch, yet it's somehow better than part two.My favorite thing about it is that there isn't a bunch of long drawn-out fight scenes.I'm sure most of Toxie's fans love those but they bore me.Somehow Apocalypse Inc. has returned and they have a new plan to get rid of Toxie.They offer him the money he needs for Claire's eye surgery and he quickly accepts but then turns into a stereotypical 80s douche bag.For the first half of this movie all I could think was how much better part two was but after seeing it all I have changed my mind.The overall story wasn't great but the lack of fights and the extra comedy made this better.Now let's see if I can make it through part four......