Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (2014)

Purely Joyful Movie!

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I'm a fan of a lot of Troma movies. Lloyd Kaufman's sense of humor, his critical views on late capitalist society (seriously) and the gross-out gore often really hit the spot for me. The upside of "Return to Nuke 'Em High" is that quite a bit of that old spirit is alive and kicking. The initial scene (couple has sex and gets gorily dismembered/dissolved) shows this - but is already a bit off. Troma always employed shameless overacting, but here and elsewhere it is taken too far into pure parody. Troma also always accepted that some jokes would fall flat (OK, that a lot of jokes would be duds), but made up for it with sheer numbers and total insanity what it threw at you. Here, the hit ratio is lower than usual, though.Troma was further always about the gratuitous nudity, and there is quite a bit here as well. However, the lesbian sex scene between the two (very likable) female leads was neither hot nor funny (and the use of soft-focus was way off if this was in any way intended to play on "Blue is the warmest color"). What's new for Troma is splitting a movie into two parts - and it's not a welcome change. Troma used to be about packing as much into a movie as possible, and here the lackluster pacing is somewhat explained by the "to be continued" (though, kudos for stopping at a shower scene!). The verdict: If you're a Troma-aficionado, then by all means watch this. It's certainly not their worst release ever. I just found watching it quite a bit less fun than expected, so don't expect too much. If you don't know what Troma is, then watch at least "The Toxic Avenger" (I & IV) and "Troma's War", as both are better movies, before this.

As with all of Troma's movies, this is definitely something of an acquired taste. There has been some fun enough titles amongst the movies produced by Troma, but far from all are equally great.While there were fun moments, and your standard outrageous Troma moments to be had here in "Return to Nuke Em High Volume 1", then the movie tended to drag out for long periods of time, and it just ended up as too much towards the end. There was so much nonsense in this movie - but hey, it's Troma!Effects-wise, well if you are familiar with any of the previous Troma movies, then you know exactly what you are getting into here. For those who are not familiar with Troma's work, just a little heads up; lots of cheesy, low budget, outrageous and wacky effects, creatures, and spoofs throughout the entire movie.There were lots of strange, funny, outrageous and just downright odd characters in "Return to Nuke Em High Volume 1", as in all of Troma's movies, so no big surprise there.What ticked me off in this movie, was the lack of an overly coherent and appealing storyline. Without proper contents in a story, then all of Troma's oddball effects just wears thin.

This movie is, just, awesome!! Its super cheese and bright colors bring you back to the 80s when movies were still awesome! It's hilarious, with some extremely clever parody and satire; one of which even made the audience skip a beat! Comedy - you're doing it right! If you love gore, its got tons of that too! Love nudity? Check! Musicals? CHECK! It's everything in one! I don't know what to call it...a musical horror, comedy porno? Yeah, that works! I don't think I'll be in the mood for guacamole for a while though...and suddenly dressing like a 'normal' person, and not a cretin, seems just wrong. Another wicked film from Troma, and it was great to recognize parts of my hometown in the backdrop! Counting down the days until Volume Two! CRETINS FOR LIFE!

I saw this last time in London in a double bill with the original Class of Nuke Em High.As a huge Troma fan it was a great honour to meet Lloyd Kaufman and i had planned to congratulate him on his latest "Tromasterpiece" however when i met him i didn't mention the film at all out of respect.Whilst i didn't hate it, it is my least favourite out of all the recent Troma in-house movies.Cutting it up into 2 parts just drags the film down. Whole scenes drag on way too long to seemingly just fill out time. The jokes just aren't that funny, and the topical humour regarding school shootings and cinema shootings just seems mean spirited.Troma have seemingly embraced digital special effects, and oh boy are some of them BAD! Now i know Troma isn't known for its high budget but i love the makeshift nature of just a melon filled with blood being stamped on it works and is visceral. Seeing terrible digital visual effects takes away from Tromas normally fantastic physical work.What I did think worked was the chemistry between the 2 lead actresses, they were the only 2 good actors out of the rather mediocre (even by Troma standard) bunch.It really, really pains me to say it but it is not a good movie. I think when Vol.2 comes out it is salvageable and i am still definitely looking forward to it as trailers hint at many scenes not in Vol.1 that look awesome.I just wish that we could have had a really tight awesome 2-hour Return to Nuke Em High as a single film rather then this unfortunate (so far anyways) mess.Big props to Lloyd though he stayed and greeted his fans outside the theatre to the end signing whatever Tromabilia they had.Thanks Lloyd your film disappointed but you still made my day x.