{"id":49954,"date":"2018-05-11T09:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=49954"},"modified":"2018-05-11T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T15:03:23","slug":"flashback-friday-check-out-this-vintage-review-of-the-toxic-avenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=49954","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday: Check Out This Vintage Review of &#8220;The Toxic Avenger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrKUiwOEYhw?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The Toxic Avenger<\/em> is a terrible movie, but I have to admit, it has its moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With those words, veteran New York City film critic Judith Crist summed up <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=the+toxic+avenger&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Toxic Avenger<\/a><\/em> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Michael%20Herz%7C319859&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Herz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Lloyd%20Kaufman%7C293787&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lloyd Kaufman<\/a>&#8216;s 1984 schlock masterpiece about &#8220;the first superhero from New Jersey.&#8221; After being dumped on by his peers and dumped in chemical wastes, a 98-pound nerd becomes the disfigured defender who cleans up the town his way &#8212; with hilarious results. The movie became an instant cult sensation, spawning the unlikeliest franchise in the history of cinema (it&#8217;s spawned several sequels, a cartoon series, a comic book, action figures, and even a musical) and helping to put Troma Films on the map. As goofy as it is charming, <em>The Toxic Avenger<\/em> is nothing short of a watershed moment in independent film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Toxic Avenger is a terrible movie, but I have to admit, it has its moments.&#8221; With those words, veteran New York City film critic Judith Crist summed up The Toxic Avenger &#8212; Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman&#8216;s 1984 schlock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9744,"featured_media":49955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5952,6438,6436,6437],"coauthors":[5618],"class_list":["post-49954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-articles","tag-flashback-friday","tag-lloyd-kaufman","tag-the-toxic-avenger","tag-troma-films"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flashback Friday: Check Out This Vintage Review of &quot;The Toxic Avenger&quot; - MovieFanFare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Toxic Avenger first hit theaters back in 1984. 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