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      War

      R Released Feb 15, 1988 1h 39m Action List
      Reviews 61% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Tromaville residents resort to guerrilla tactics after crash-landing on a tropical island inhabited by terrorists. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Feb 21 Buy Now

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      Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Always feels like a half hearted indictment on Regan era jingoism. Apr 22, 2017 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Sep 26, 2005 Full Review Luke Y. Thompson New Times Starts off cleverly enough, then proceeds to badly staged low-budget war scene after badly staged low-budget war scene. Rated: 1/5 Feb 26, 2003 Full Review Michael Szymanski Zap2it.com Rated: 3/5 Jan 25, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Overblown, superfluous, and ridiculously wonderful. The absurdity of the film is as entertaining as its embarrassingly juvenile comedic qualities. One of my favorite from Troma Productions. If you know how many bullets were fired during this movie, you deserve an award presented by Lloyd Kaufman. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member A classic troma film..a must have for all true Troma FANATICS Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member I watch Troma movies to laugh at bad taste. Outside of a few times, this movie mostly takes itself a bit too seriously. Plus, there are endless explosions and gun shooting. I wouldn't normally mind this, but it doesn't really make this movie standout from any other fodder from Lundgren or Stallone when the action starts. I expected something a bit more unique with a lot more blood and gore. It's okay, but I wouldn't put it at the level of Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, or Terror Firmer. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member I think it's fabulous. I love Troma films. If you didn't like it, you don't understand the beauty of Troma Films. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Oh and the brightest moment comes when one of the characters yells hysterically "I have AIDS! I have AIDS!" Yet, Troma's War is one of the more impressive films from the company's catalog with a clever plot and comment to foreign policy under the Reagan Administration. After a plane crash, survivors rally up to survive in an island inhabited by unfriendly terrorist and communist with a sinister plot to take down the US. They are terrorist since they are dress for it thanks to the pathos of Hollywood and world events of the 80's. They are unfriendly because the gun down one screaming woman while taking a handful of passengers prisoners. The groups leader accuse the survivors of being commandos, now that certainly is preposterous. Just ask the guy who happens to carry a blow dart with deadly venom and used care salesman who was in airborne and screams airborne every chance he gets. Director Samuel Weil and Michael Herz have really outdone themselves with this clever film and satire, but don't worry there is plenty of low brow humor to go around. "I have AIDS! I have AIDS!" Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review jack c this is some ridiculous shit. but for the first two thirds Kaufman and Herz and co manage to find a balance between the one liners and gags, and the more serious elements (or at least as serious as a goofy cartoon like Troma can get) such as the commandos on the island who are, behind the jokey Schwarzenegger captain who is funny every time he speaks and the (Jesus christ) AIDS guy who is out to rape women so they get it, its a war movie that is intentionally BIG and MANIC and just nuts, but with a purpose. when Tromas War is at its most impressive and eye catching when Kaufman skewers 80s action movies and Regan era militarism. As an ex hippie it's clear he didn't like what he was seeing, in bloated B movies and over the top spectacles, so... why not make his own, the troma way? where it lost me a bit was in the last third. there is What feels like a natural climax like two thirds into the movie, where some of the heroes (like Lost they're not all likable but their bond is a plane crash) save the others from being killed and raped and maimed by the commandos. and then it just keeps going. and the acting doesn't get better. and not that one should be looking for a totally consistent tone in this junk food, but there was a better grasp of what the film was and trying to do for a while. by the time it nears its real climax, there's still some more mayhem, relentless violence, all shot and edited with flair even as its with liytle to no budget (outside of the special effects - the highlight for me is a montage of soldiers in trees who all get shot down and fall off the same way, tree after tree). But it kind of devolves into dumb (and I mean DUMB for a movie by these fuckers) antics and one liners, though it's almost saved by a side characters stunt from a trunk onto a boat. I want to like it more - it's shot with more competency than other troma movies and up to a point has some really good music (up to a point as in not too much but still there crappy 80s songs put over scenes unnecessarily) and though some of the acting is cheesy and over the top, some of it really works for it being a ludicrous mockery. And yet there is a line that, sometimes, Kaufman and Herz have to not cross but do a lot of the time which is the film being the same carnage extravaganza with bullets flying and guts spilling and squibs popping like there's no tomorrow and became something like Commando. but... if you wanna get some buddies together, and are in the mood for some comic book characters and set ups and pay offs (including a British dude who talks like Peter O'Toole and has a shtick with poison darts), this ain't bad. it's just not AS memorable as toxic avenger and nuke em high. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Tromaville residents resort to guerrilla tactics after crash-landing on a tropical island inhabited by terrorists.
      Director
      Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
      Production Co
      Troma Entertainment
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 15, 1988, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 28, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 39m
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