Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

2000
R
1h 49m

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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)

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The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender.The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender.The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender.

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5.9/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
Hugh Hefner was originally going to be in the Tromadu segment. A shot of him saying, "Only the Toxic Avenger knows for sure!" appears in the original teaser trailer. Unfortunately, a cease-and-desist order from Hefner's lawyers forced Troma to remove any and all visual depictions of him from both their advertising and the final film. By all accounts, Hefner himself was initially fine with being in the film, but his lawyers convinced him he was unfairly coerced into being in the movie. Because of this, during the "Special Thanks To" sequence of the final credits, there's a special "No thanks to Hugh Hefner, who asked to be cut out of this film" credit.

Goofs
When Toxie and Evil Kabukiman crash their car and it flips, the car comes down and appears to be landing sideways. But in the next shot, it's shown landing straight.

Quotes
Evil Kabukiman: [to Claire] You read sign language don't you? Well read this!
[slaps her]
Evil Kabukiman: .

Crazy credits
Film Fact: Did you know that in Pilipino (based on Tagalog), the native language of the Phillippines, the phonetic translation of "The Toxic Avenger" is "where are you going with my goat?"

Alternate versions
The "R" rated version is heavily cut missing almost all of the gore and sexual content.

Connections
Edited from Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)

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Written and Performed by Things Outside the Skin
©1999 THE thing

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Lloyd Kaufman For President

There are some Troma films that are just plain bad- and not in a good way. But I still watch them, and kinda like them just because they are Troma films. It is like drinking coffee without cream and sugar. It is bitter; I didn't always like it that way; but I aquired a taste for it. But "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV" is actually an amazingly entertaining and creative movie that non-Troma fans

could enjoy.

As usual, this film is not for the squeamish with all of its creative gore. The gore isn't realistic by any means. It is quite obvious that you are seeing a melon with a mask and wig being smashed, etc. And anyone could take offense to

something in the film if they actually believed Kaufman was serious- but he isn't. I have the unrated directors edition, so I don't know what the difference is from the R version, but I wouldn't invite my fellow members from church over to watch it.

This film doesn't drag on. The story is even kind of clever- not just Toxie going around and saving the day. Lots of good gags, creative gore scenes, and the

usual nudity sprinkled throughout. The porn Godfather Ron Jeremy plays

Troma's mayor as well. Unfortunately it is rare to find any Troma DVDs new or old in Blockbuster or Hollywood Video stores. So your best bet is to either find a privately owned business that carries lots of independent titles or cough up a few extra bucks to buy it. The DVD is a 2 disc collector's edition and is the director's cut- unrated. There is lots of goodies on the DVD including a 95

minute documentary called "Apocalypse Soon: The Making of Citizen Toxie".