Thursday, February 1, 2018

Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)

The follow-up to "Class of Nuke 'Em High" definitely amps up the indiscriminate lunacy one might more attribute to a Troma Team Production. As off-the-wall as the first film was, this one makes it look like a dramatic 'masterwork' in comparison and, I must say, that's no slight against this one. I kind of enjoyed it.

Proceeding the events of the first movie, a new nuclear facility and school are built and it's business as usual in Tromaville, despite living amongst toxic contamination. Things get screwy when a professor starts conducting experiments in order to create subserviant subhumanoids out of students and they start going haywire and literally melting. One particularly unpopular student falls in love with a sexy subhumanoid girl and is determined to off-set her impending 'meltdown'...

There is not one frame of this movie in which it's taking itself at all seriously. Case and point, we're presented with mouths where belly buttons should be (a distinctive trait of the subhumanoids), a gang called The Squirrels (replacing the previous and more memorable Tromaville High terrorizors, The Cretins), the Toxic Avenger crashing the set of the film at one point, constant bad dubbing and bikini-clad bimbos and a radioactive squirrel rampaging on campus (not entirely sure what the squirrel 'theme' was all about in this flick...). It's fun stuff and will definitely satiate any Troma fans' hankering for totally juvenile retardation. Honestly, I dug this one a tad more than the original just shamelessly imbecilic they went with it.

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