September 2, 2025 • 28 mins
The guys dive into the brand-new Toxic Avenger movie and give their unfiltered thoughts. Does it live up to the cult-classic insanity of the original, or is it just another remake trying too hard? We break down the gore, the laughs, the weirdness, and whether this reboot has a place in today’s superhero-saturated world.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
That Comic Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello, Hello, welcome to that Comic Podcast. I'm your host.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Met the end with me. It's always some my wonderful
side kicks. This time just Bussington. I'm throwing it at
your first.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You got me off that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So everyone on their toes and everyone on their.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Toes and v P features, Hello Internet.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
What's up, Pumpkin? How are you doing good? Doing good?
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So, uh yeah, this one is gonna be a fun
show because I didn't know this was happening. I knew
I was excited for it, but I had no idea
about the release date. And then Buzz goes, hey, guess what,
the Toxic Avenger is out, and that changed my whole
weekend plans everything. I And okay, I'm already too excited.
(00:55):
I'm already too excited. Let me rerail this back in.
This is going to be a review of Toxic Avenger.
We're gonna do part of it as a spoiler fee
review and then get into all the spoilery and gory
details in just a moment, plus a little bit of
news at the end. But for the most part, that's
what we're gonna be doing. I'm gonna be honest, I
am not the biggest trauma fan.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I am not the I have.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I watched Toxic Avenger when I was younger, so this
is like a and I started reading that last comic run,
but I haven't been big into this in a while.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So I'm very happy that Bus is with me on
this one.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And I'm happy that he kept me in the loop
because I would have been pissed because you couldn't find
seats for this thing.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Really, anyone else had issues with that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
There was like three theaters that were showing it, and
the ones that had showings had a lot of people
on it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I was like, wow, that's awesome. Man was actually kind
of empty. But I'm glad that you guys had a
pack theater. That's a good turnout.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh not only was that a pack theater, the closed
caption one or to be the open caption.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
One before it, I was gonna try and go early
in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, which is great.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Up like they asked him to.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's good. Well, and it needed to come out.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, you know what was what was released in
twenty twenty three and in September and then it had
like a holdout, like no one wanted to put it
out because of the nature of the movie, you know,
with the graphic stuff and the jokes and so, you know,
it kind of sat on a shelf, and then all
of a sudden, like months later, people are really asking
and asking, asking, and then someone snagged it up. Obviously
bloody disgusting cineverse. They're the ones jumping on the terrifier stuff,
(02:20):
so they took a huge grab at it and obviously
certified fresh and rotten tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You know, it was a great movie.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's so good. It's a spoiler alert. It's so good,
so good. I was shocked how much I enjoyed it.
From the campiness right from the get go. It leans
in so beautifully into what you would expect. It's like
nothing you've ever seen, but something you absolutely expected if
you saw the trailer.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And I don't know if that makes sense, but it
feels right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's a movie that knows exactly what it is. Go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I would say the only analoge you or another movie
that you could kind of draw on from that you
would walk into it expectations like Toxic Avenger, I would say,
in the last couple of years, probably was Black Dynamite.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yes, it's like the only very much and it was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It was man, well man, it just shows you when
movies know what they are and they know who their
core audience is and they stick to the formula.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It just is. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's gory and
gross and it's just nasty and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, you can tell.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Like I watched this campaign for this thing, like get
you know, get get Its reboot, get its director, get
its cast, and I followed it the whole time and
it really delivered. Like a lot of people were on
the fence very very early on with you know, the
full character being a little shorter than the big version
of it, and I just I was it's like the
little engine that could, you know what I mean, it
(03:45):
was making it. You know, you got James Gunn doing good.
He started at Trauma. So now Trauma is getting there
like reboot and obviously with toxic Avengers like their main flagship,
so they go with that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But yeah, they knocked it out the park. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I love how they added yes, Yeah, I was so
clever how they pulled that off. Again, now spoilers just yet,
go see the movie and then come back to that part.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh no, I was just gonna say that, you know,
some of the things that fans were questionable on, like
that stuff just went out of my mind when I
went right into and I fell into the character, into
Winston's like you know, downtrid in life and following like
the human aspect of it. Yeah, you know, like what
you know, spoiler in the beginning we see a little
bit of action. Is like, hold up, let me tell
you the story.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, yeah, so trippy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's so trippy and wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So without getting into too much detail, this is for
a spoiler free ish recap. It is a new version
of Toxi, right. That's it's a character named Winston. It's
not Melvin like we've known before in the past, and
it's a stepfather who is also a single father and
is down on his luck as a janitor at a
(04:57):
cosmetic company that just hates everyone one, which and that's
part for the course, that's what you expect, like big
corporations and pollution is kind of what you'd expect, and
you get plenty of that. But the change in character
is really what sold me because that was a beautiful
part of the movie, which you think is that would
be a negative is that Toxi's not in it as
(05:18):
much as you might think he is. But Winston's so
great and you root for him almost immediately. Yes, right
from the burnt toast, You're like, I'm with this dude.
I'm with this dude. Where I find that Melvin kinda
I don't know he's part. I dropped the comic, and
the comic wasn't bad by any means, but it didn't
(05:38):
draw me in the same way that Winston's character did.
And that might just be because I'm older now, so
it might be because I relate a little bit more so.
I mean that probably plays a role, but this new
version is beautifully dumb.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I would definitely agree with you on that one. And
I think the main reason, like because I haven't seen
sox of Avener since way back myself. But in comparison
Melvin to Winston, Melvin, you like, younger me was able
to kind of relate to Melvin on a sense of
like kind of being a nerdy guy, not being with
the end crowd. I think they've played on that for
(06:11):
his character then in those times, but now older me
with Winston. You're right, there's it's a little bit more
empathetic because you're dealing with real world problems and he's like,
I don't know what to do about this, and I
have all these things on my heads and right now
this day and age. Yeah, that's highly relatable for any
and almost everyone.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, you see it starting off in a dark place
with you know, losing the mother and trying to keep
going and and and still continue their life, you know,
in a positive way. So you're already like you can
relate to that because people have been down their luck
but also wanting that can strive on and continue. And
so you're with him like you're in you're in his
group with him already.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And all this before toxic Yeah, all of it before time,
and you just you empathize with him so much that
when Toxi comes around and finally shows his beauty gruesome face, uh,
you are just thrilled for the adventure that you go
on with him because they lean so heavily into the
campy aspect of it. But it's because it's so self referential,
(07:15):
you're it makes it's almost got of like a ted
Lasso effect where everything's just like, ye, it's like gory
ted Lasso.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
It really it really you know, the original was very comic,
bookie and over the top, and this one just takes
it to the next level and it really adds I
think it added more to the movie budgetarily, you know,
and with you know, new actors and even some big
name actors in there, you know, really kind of out
and carry the film. Yeah, I mean, got some big
name guys out there, you know, being like, yo, check
(07:46):
this movie out because it's really really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Please come out and see it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And it delivers at this point just spoiler alert, Yeah
you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know exactly where we gave you recap in the trailer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I mean, honestly, if you've seen the trailer, you're getting
exactly what you want. Like, if you see the trailer
and you're just not like that doesn't do something for you,
you could skip this.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But even if you even.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Just a small party, you goes, oh, that was kind
of cool. I brought my little brother. He's never seen
any like it before.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He was like, that was amazing. Yes, it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
When he becomes Toxi, which is almost going to be
an interesting for the future of this franchise if they
keep it going, then Peter Dinkligh will just be a
voiceover character. From this point board that's going to be
a little weird, but it doesn't matter because they did
such a good job blending the two. At no point
did I get like, oh, that's somebody different than Peter Dnklish, right.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, and it is somebody different Luisa Guerrera, who's like
the monster actor and has all the experience. I think
Peter was talking at San Diego about how no, no, no,
it wasn't me in the suit, you know, like way
too hot and I couldn't do that. Yeah, like really,
you know, giving the adda boys to them for doing
the role. And ironically I knew that going in and
it didn't change anything for me, being about the mannerisms
(09:01):
in Luis's expressions and stuff. It like translated from me
where I almost thought Peter might have been in.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The suit and it kind of was in a weird way.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So he wasn't. No, just he was not.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But what he did from when I heard an interview
with him where he said that he would do the
scene and act like how he would act, and then
she would take the footage and study it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, so that's why you gave merge together very you know,
what it felt. Another show that's doing well with this
is Sweet Tooth in Twisted Metal. The way that the
voice actor in the in the what's his name? Yes, yeah,
merge so well into one character. You never really question
whether or not the voice is there. And this one
actually has to move the mouth. You know what I mean,
(09:43):
Sweet Tooth, it's a mask.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's easy. Well, this was It's beautifully done all.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
The way to the to the lackluster post credits scene, which,
by the way, did you say, Please tell me you
stayed for that?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
There buzz?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Was it after the credits had ran completely? Yeah, I
missed it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You're gonna love this. I looked it up. I had
a time to see if there was one, and I
saw that. The director said, we wanted to make the
most boring, just nonsense and the credit scene we could
possibly come up with. And it's just him making a
grilled cheese, telling you how he makes a girl cheese,
and the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's like, sometimes I use Mayo.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
He's like, you had to add a little list for
a little bit of pop that crunch.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Sometimes, yeah, sometimes you put cheese on the outside and
then let it melt onto the outside of the bread.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It was funny.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I didn't think it was gonna get one right. I
was like, nah, they probably wouldn't do that. And you know,
my wife kind of runs out of the theater when
it's over. And I noticed some people stayed, and I
was like, should I stay?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Did you see the Toxi will return? No?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I didn't, but I figured they would do that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Hold on, do you guys keep talking for just a second.
I got to see if I can find because someone
took a picture.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, there was like a there's probably like the underjoke.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh yeah, the whole stream.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
It was. It's like, Toxi will return and it's like, uh.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Talk about something else, I'll come back to it. I'm
looking all right, I'm looking so featured.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Did you like the hawks she hawk moment where you
like put the uh, put some of the ooze?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, the j character I bring her back.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I kind of remember that loosely a little bit. I
feel like that happened to the original.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
She had gotten shot and then he like squeezes the go.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I was like, man, this is an incredible hawk kind
of thing. I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I wonder, I wonder if they're going to play into
that later on, Like I wonder if that comes back around,
because there's.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No way this this movie's kind of get a sequel.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, we got to pass it around more.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, it does need to get passed around, That's no question.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That'll be the way.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It's almost like basket Case, where it's like you have
like crazy si Siamese monster brother and then in part
two and three everyone's in evening.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
If they could do I feel like they could remake
all of those, all the Toxic Avenger movies for today
like they did with this one.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it would work just as well.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
One thing I would like to say that they did
extremely well was and they invited a lot of social
norms that will either make people feel icky or go
like oh that's kind of cool, right, yeah, a very
subtle way.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Right, waiting them off about it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You know, the the gang group and the little like
food joint extremists and stuff that was in the original.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, absolutely was a lot of.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Nods to Lloyd's like style is gonzo style, kind of
like taking whatever he can get and putting it in
any way, it doesn't matter if it makes sense or not.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, just for entertainment. Purposes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, movies are smoking mirrors, so you're kind of putting
this together and this together and making a picture.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Probably not out yet, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I tried.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I'll go see it again.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'll try.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But it was it was like Toxic will Return in
megaplex vision and it goes down the screen.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That add so many things.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's great because like Lloyd, I don't know how he
did it. Man, Maybe it was because it was the eighties,
but Lloyd got away with putting that like kind of
like something you wouldn't say in public. Yeah, in public,
like the Truma kind of their reputation is where there's
almost like no boundaries. But from what I understand, you
know what I mean, like they really allow artistic freedom,
(13:19):
like within the creativity of like their network, how they
they built their their franchise. So it's pretty neat to
see that it's still keeping that like kind of like
edge edge crossing humor, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's got that eighties sprinkled on it. Oh yeah, yeah,
it's got that eighties cult sprinkle.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Not taking itself so seriously where it's like if you
say something that's like offensive, it's like they really meant,
you know, I mean like they're just doing it to
Like when.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I saw that guy lose his jaw. Yeah, you saw
a guy at the top of his head. Oh my god,
what I forgot all about? That was the funniest I'll
have this time. See.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That was what I was saying about wanting to go
back and see it again, because like every time I
looked at a joke, there was another joke following it,
and one happening behind it, and then one on the
screen written too, And it's like I can't read and
watch all that.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yeah, I thought it was dope, Patty guy all that.
They really touched on that lude and gore behavior that
the old.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Films had into this way. Yeah, getting miss a.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Bi Oh look the one journalist who wouldn't die, He
just kept shooting him.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You've got nothing in the project of the window.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
This is the top of his head.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
His brain then explodes and then he just crawls around
on the floor like just alive.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wait, wait, hold on it.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I gotta ask, Buzz, what was your reaction to the
one badman who honestly I thought was a mutant chicken
the entire time O.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
The mutant Chicken thing. Yeah so good.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
It felt like as soon as you would get like
too much into the movie, it would go to the
mute and chicken.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
This is a joke, just so you know what you're watching,
Just so you know what you're watching. But we loved it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
You know at the end when he's like there and
there's the chicken, the chickens all scared.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Where's you're getting that?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Like, like, you know, I don't know a lot of
making Blair's work. I know he did The green Room,
which is like a really intense.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Fo oh wow. That was the same guy who did
The green Room.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, making Blair.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Wow, The green Room is rough man. Somebody told me
to watch that one time, and that blew me away.
You can't even mourn anyone in that movie. That's just like,
oh oh now the next person.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh yeah, that's just like the worst part of society.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Manah.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I think I love this one because like it kind
of almost is like The Monsters in a way, like yes,
the monster stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It belongs up there with like, I know, this is
a weird one to bring up, but twenty one Jump
Street the remake the new one, because again, it knows
what it is, and that's why it works this very much.
And a black Dynamite is a perfect example because again
it knows what it's able to get away with, jokes
that nobody else can, like like the acid piss that.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
God, that's so funny. I forgot so much that scene that.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Leaked before it came out, and everyone was like, oh
my god, like, what.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Is he doing? What is They didn't, you couldn't. It
wasn't immovable image. It was a static image. They were like,
what is that? Oh I didn't. I didn't tell my
wife about it because I was like, and she just
she fell out due she's pissing herself.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I liked it before they got to the inclusive eighties,
like so it was the girls lifting their tops.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh yeah, and then it goes right into a pain
and you're like.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And that's trumpan man because they're like, we're not going
to exploit just one type of person that we're exploiting everybody. Yeah,
they were. They were phenomenal for that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
A lot of people made like their debuts in Trema films, Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I mean hell, one of the first things of James
Gun you'll ever see is wildly offensive.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh yeah, Trump and Juliet Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
But it's this.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I can't say enough how much this is worth your time. Like,
if you even have a passing interest in seeing this movie,
I would recommend seeing it on the big screen with people.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, because it's fun.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I love that everybody laughed at different things.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Absolutely, yeah, I mean I I laughed out loud a lot.
My wife's looking at me, grabbing my arm being like
I love seeing you this happy, because.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Like I just love movies like that.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Like I'm gonna drop an image in the chat for
another movie called Psycho Gorman, which is a huge.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So much Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
So Psycho Garman is kind of like my It's like tox.
He's like the same yeah cap style, you know. But
I tell you my favorite part of the whole movie, dude,
and this is like meta was months ago, when you know,
like you know, having a rough week at work, I
would play this song and dance with my little dog
in the kitchen and my kids and my wife would
(17:57):
crack up. And it was the look of love by
the ABC at the end and when the sun is
doing the theatrical song was a song I was using
to make myself feel better. And then it popped into
the movie for them for the kid, and I'm like,
it's that song that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I love and this once the Sun has the confidence
to dance.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yes, dances through the post credit scene like as he's
making the the.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So good dude. It's it's a breakfast club moment. It's
a John Hughes moment.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And somehow they layered in this like wacky b horror
movie on top of it. You're getting both at the
same time. That's why it's so good. That's why I
text you guys and like go see it because it's
like such a it's a feel good movie.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I hate this.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's weird, is about it. It had ted Lasso characters
in it. Yeah, like the actors from Ted lassoer in
the movie.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Its weird.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
As I'm watching it, I'm like this this god like
this like it reached out and gave me a toxic hug.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, I feel I'm so so glad I got
to see it, and I got to see it in
the theater.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I obviously it would have went to streaming, but like
I was like, man, I hope it's playing around here,
and it was, and I immediately bought tickets because watching
it being like the Little Movie that Could, and then
watching the promotion at San Diego and Elijah coming out
and Peter coming out and Lloyd getting together and being like, yeah,
like this is my I'm not mad about this. That
Lloyd gets mad about a lot of stuff in movies
and politics, so to see him support his own rebirth.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, and he did say this is probably his last hurrah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh, well this is a good hurrah man. Yeah. I
mean I didn't he pop up at the end.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, he was the he was the guy in uh
was he always got the golf hat.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, eye trousers, very shamp.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh and I love I just I saw an interview
with was talking about how you can't can't call the superhero.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, I can't call it the superhero because of the
trademark on the name.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
He's a super Hue. He's a super mutant hero.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You can change it super hero.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
That's what he ca It was ironic.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They definitely the license plate on the car that Toxi
fell on had a New Jersey's license plate, but they
didn't do a lot of new over New Jersey stuff,
you know.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No, I think they wanted it to feel very every towns.
It was very Springfielding, Yeah, Springfield exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It did have a couple of Jersey nods in there,
the license plates and newspapers and stuff like.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That, but it felt like nothing I'd seen but every
Toxic Avenger thing I'd seen.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Now absolutely Man's elements to all of it. You know,
the fact that he was like it.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Because when you see the pictures of them and you see,
you know, the stills from the old movies or the
other films, it's like, like, what is that guy? But
then when when you get into it, you're like, oh,
he's a good guy, you know what I mean? And again,
you know, you know, I like the monster good guys.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So I keeps popping out throughout the Yeah, you're popping
it back then.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The little pupil moving was cool, and the round the
corner so funny.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Dude, when he rips the first guy's arm off, that's
what you knew, You really knew. You The trippiness in
the opening was one thing, but ripping the arm off
was like, oh, well, hey.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, here we have a real kill bill real quick.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I loved how he came out through the shadow. Yeah,
you know, it was like the glow around him and stuff.
Man really well done, some very cool effects there.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Like I love how fickle and like flip floppy, like
the people of the sat Where was it called Saint Romasville? Romasville, Yeah,
Roma's village. It was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Every time you see all everything's messed out, just as Trumboville.
But the the people were just so flip floppy.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I loved it. They were like, boo people, we save people, right.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You don't need time to build up.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Just in the same scene they're screaming aground. Yeah, Superman
just did.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That, right, interesting, that was what he would Right before
he goes at the uh the band, the nets, the
oh yeah ICP band too Much, takes the stage, does
his own song. Everyone's like yeah, and it turns around
(22:13):
just slaughters. They're like, why did he do that? You
know these people are evil?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Or what the lead singer shoots him like that's not
what he looks like. Oh my god again again. I
can't say enough. Go see the movie.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's a comic book on a screen.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, you know what everybody's saying that right now. This
deserves it. Yeah, this deserves it. This this will be
one of the best Movies of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
It's in my top five for no question, no question.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I cannot wait for it to come out on digital.
I want to watch it again.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Hopefully there's still more showing because again it's not going
to be easy to find tickets.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
At least for where I am. There wasn't many theaters
and there wasn't many showings.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
So yeah, if you're seeing this, get out there and
go go support it because Real Quick deserves a bigger run.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
John, I was gonna say, I just noticed this, sorry
to jump in the day before it came out, they announced,
I believe the Cineverse announced that for every million dollars
it makes, it's paying like fifty thousand in medical debt
for people.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh whoa wow, A lot.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I don't know if those numbers are accurate, but they're big,
and they said the better it does, the more they're
going to pay off medical debt for people.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I mean, that's incredible. Yeah, So I'm gonna go see
it again. If you guys made it this far in
the video, go support that film.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Don't hit likes, don't hit subscribe, go out to see then,
come back then and subscribe. All right, So christ before
we end, before we wrap this up, I still have
up yeah I do. Let me, let me, let me
pull up this image because we just have to set
the record straight for a quick second here.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Come on, come on, come on, technical difficulties, get.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
With the boots.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
With the boots, Heed me with the boots. But this
is the news we're about to get into with the
well people.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Losing their mind for weird things. I will show you
as soon as I can hit the button to make
the thing happen. Look, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
There is all right.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
So a lot of people have been talking about this poster.
This apparently is at D twenty three, and I want
to say, bullshit. Right, this is making its rounds and
a lot of people are saying that this is a
Marvel like It says it's got the copyright in the
corner twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, yeah, right there, Marvel copyright twenty twenty five. But
this is not Marvel's. This is fan art that's been
around for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah, it's it's not anywhere close to something that Marvel
would put out.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You can tell that they pulled the PNGs from a
website and put them together. It's a beautiful folk for
what it is. But let's not take this too far. Yeah, like,
there's almost no synergy in this this picture. They're just there.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
It's also taking all the spices out of the spice
where I can putting them into the suit.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well, you know, we're getting a poster like this, You're
really right, there's no question, but we are one hundred
percent getting a poster similar to this whenever it comes out.
But this is not official, as we can see right
here in the corner, yeah, right there. Yeah, this is
not Marvels. So this picture, please stop falling for it.
And honestly, I think people just need to take a step.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Back on some of the news. Yeah let it, let
it ride for a minute.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Because the whole RDJ fighting Robert or Robert Danny ju
or yeah, Robertanny Junior fight Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That was a tweet.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Somebody said, I wonder if it was those two and
then everyone went, oh, they're beefing.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Everybody. Relax.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Everybody wants to be first to the market with you know,
the hot goss on, like what's going on? This is
our obviously fake because the light, the hologen light in
the ceiling would be reflective behind them the thin sheer
banner and you can't see the light behind it.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's a very good point, very hungry to be like,
look what you know, getting the most clicks or getting
the most like shares and the virility of a post.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Dude, they may have gotten twelve cents for that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Now it's going to be on those like satin shirts
with the collar.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Stop making fun of my shirts.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Your shirt cool because of print like moves. I'm talking.
This is like the full body print where it's like
as the person turns into the poster.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, I think I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Then whatever, You're.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Right, yours officially a mirror. But that's fine. That's all
in the show.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I got traumatized, you know, and so did I anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
But still, I, you know, take that news aside. That's
just so I can make a different clip later.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I want to go back to the news that's actually important,
which is how good that uh tox he was so
cannot stress again.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Go see the movie. Knowing what it supports all the
more reason to see it more than once. It does definitely.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Deserves multiple showings, and I hope that movies like this
don't fall by the wayside, Like the last time I
saw a movie like this, this is way better then,
but I still really liked was ONYX the Fortuitous.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a fun movie too, man,
And I missed those kind of goofy movies. Yeah, I
don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
All right, Well, yeah, that's gonna do it. That's gonna
do it once again. We already did that called action,
didn't we Come on, we kind of did. We did
it with more, but we did it for the film,
so we'll do it for that.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Met the end with me. It's always some my wonderful
side kicks. This time just Bussington. I'm throwing it at
your first.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You got me off that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So everyone on their toes and everyone on their.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Toes and v P features, Hello Internet.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
What's up, Pumpkin? How are you doing good? Doing good?
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So, uh yeah, this one is gonna be a fun
show because I didn't know this was happening. I knew
I was excited for it, but I had no idea
about the release date. And then Buzz goes, hey, guess what,
the Toxic Avenger is out, and that changed my whole
weekend plans everything. I And okay, I'm already too excited.
(00:55):
I'm already too excited. Let me rerail this back in.
This is going to be a review of Toxic Avenger.
We're gonna do part of it as a spoiler fee
review and then get into all the spoilery and gory
details in just a moment, plus a little bit of
news at the end. But for the most part, that's
what we're gonna be doing. I'm gonna be honest, I
am not the biggest trauma fan.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I am not the I have.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I watched Toxic Avenger when I was younger, so this
is like a and I started reading that last comic run,
but I haven't been big into this in a while.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So I'm very happy that Bus is with me on
this one.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And I'm happy that he kept me in the loop
because I would have been pissed because you couldn't find
seats for this thing.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Really, anyone else had issues with that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
There was like three theaters that were showing it, and
the ones that had showings had a lot of people
on it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I was like, wow, that's awesome. Man was actually kind
of empty. But I'm glad that you guys had a
pack theater. That's a good turnout.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh not only was that a pack theater, the closed
caption one or to be the open caption.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
One before it, I was gonna try and go early
in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, which is great.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Up like they asked him to.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's good. Well, and it needed to come out.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, you know what was what was released in
twenty twenty three and in September and then it had
like a holdout, like no one wanted to put it
out because of the nature of the movie, you know,
with the graphic stuff and the jokes and so, you know,
it kind of sat on a shelf, and then all
of a sudden, like months later, people are really asking
and asking, asking, and then someone snagged it up. Obviously
bloody disgusting cineverse. They're the ones jumping on the terrifier stuff,
(02:20):
so they took a huge grab at it and obviously
certified fresh and rotten tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You know, it was a great movie.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's so good. It's a spoiler alert. It's so good,
so good. I was shocked how much I enjoyed it.
From the campiness right from the get go. It leans
in so beautifully into what you would expect. It's like
nothing you've ever seen, but something you absolutely expected if
you saw the trailer.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And I don't know if that makes sense, but it
feels right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's a movie that knows exactly what it is. Go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I would say the only analoge you or another movie
that you could kind of draw on from that you
would walk into it expectations like Toxic Avenger, I would say,
in the last couple of years, probably was Black Dynamite.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yes, it's like the only very much and it was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It was man, well man, it just shows you when
movies know what they are and they know who their
core audience is and they stick to the formula.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It just is. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's gory and
gross and it's just nasty and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, you can tell.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Like I watched this campaign for this thing, like get
you know, get get Its reboot, get its director, get
its cast, and I followed it the whole time and
it really delivered. Like a lot of people were on
the fence very very early on with you know, the
full character being a little shorter than the big version
of it, and I just I was it's like the
little engine that could, you know what I mean, it
(03:45):
was making it. You know, you got James Gunn doing good.
He started at Trauma. So now Trauma is getting there
like reboot and obviously with toxic Avengers like their main flagship,
so they go with that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But yeah, they knocked it out the park. You know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I love how they added yes, Yeah, I was so
clever how they pulled that off. Again, now spoilers just yet,
go see the movie and then come back to that part.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Oh no, I was just gonna say that, you know,
some of the things that fans were questionable on, like
that stuff just went out of my mind when I
went right into and I fell into the character, into
Winston's like you know, downtrid in life and following like
the human aspect of it. Yeah, you know, like what
you know, spoiler in the beginning we see a little
bit of action. Is like, hold up, let me tell
you the story.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, yeah, so trippy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's so trippy and wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So without getting into too much detail, this is for
a spoiler free ish recap. It is a new version
of Toxi, right. That's it's a character named Winston. It's
not Melvin like we've known before in the past, and
it's a stepfather who is also a single father and
is down on his luck as a janitor at a
(04:57):
cosmetic company that just hates everyone one, which and that's
part for the course, that's what you expect, like big
corporations and pollution is kind of what you'd expect, and
you get plenty of that. But the change in character
is really what sold me because that was a beautiful
part of the movie, which you think is that would
be a negative is that Toxi's not in it as
(05:18):
much as you might think he is. But Winston's so
great and you root for him almost immediately. Yes, right
from the burnt toast, You're like, I'm with this dude.
I'm with this dude. Where I find that Melvin kinda
I don't know he's part. I dropped the comic, and
the comic wasn't bad by any means, but it didn't
(05:38):
draw me in the same way that Winston's character did.
And that might just be because I'm older now, so
it might be because I relate a little bit more so.
I mean that probably plays a role, but this new
version is beautifully dumb.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I would definitely agree with you on that one. And
I think the main reason, like because I haven't seen
sox of Avener since way back myself. But in comparison
Melvin to Winston, Melvin, you like, younger me was able
to kind of relate to Melvin on a sense of
like kind of being a nerdy guy, not being with
the end crowd. I think they've played on that for
(06:11):
his character then in those times, but now older me
with Winston. You're right, there's it's a little bit more
empathetic because you're dealing with real world problems and he's like,
I don't know what to do about this, and I
have all these things on my heads and right now
this day and age. Yeah, that's highly relatable for any
and almost everyone.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, you see it starting off in a dark place
with you know, losing the mother and trying to keep
going and and and still continue their life, you know,
in a positive way. So you're already like you can
relate to that because people have been down their luck
but also wanting that can strive on and continue. And
so you're with him like you're in you're in his
group with him already.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And all this before toxic Yeah, all of it before time,
and you just you empathize with him so much that
when Toxi comes around and finally shows his beauty gruesome face, uh,
you are just thrilled for the adventure that you go
on with him because they lean so heavily into the
campy aspect of it. But it's because it's so self referential,
(07:15):
you're it makes it's almost got of like a ted
Lasso effect where everything's just like, ye, it's like gory
ted Lasso.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
It really it really you know, the original was very comic,
bookie and over the top, and this one just takes
it to the next level and it really adds I
think it added more to the movie budgetarily, you know,
and with you know, new actors and even some big
name actors in there, you know, really kind of out
and carry the film. Yeah, I mean, got some big
name guys out there, you know, being like, yo, check
(07:46):
this movie out because it's really really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Please come out and see it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And it delivers at this point just spoiler alert, Yeah
you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know exactly where we gave you recap in the trailer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I mean, honestly, if you've seen the trailer, you're getting
exactly what you want. Like, if you see the trailer
and you're just not like that doesn't do something for you,
you could skip this.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But even if you even.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Just a small party, you goes, oh, that was kind
of cool. I brought my little brother. He's never seen
any like it before.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He was like, that was amazing. Yes, it.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
When he becomes Toxi, which is almost going to be
an interesting for the future of this franchise if they
keep it going, then Peter Dinkligh will just be a
voiceover character. From this point board that's going to be
a little weird, but it doesn't matter because they did
such a good job blending the two. At no point
did I get like, oh, that's somebody different than Peter Dnklish, right.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, and it is somebody different Luisa Guerrera, who's like
the monster actor and has all the experience. I think
Peter was talking at San Diego about how no, no, no,
it wasn't me in the suit, you know, like way
too hot and I couldn't do that. Yeah, like really,
you know, giving the adda boys to them for doing
the role. And ironically I knew that going in and
it didn't change anything for me, being about the mannerisms
(09:01):
in Luis's expressions and stuff. It like translated from me
where I almost thought Peter might have been in.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The suit and it kind of was in a weird way.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So he wasn't. No, just he was not.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But what he did from when I heard an interview
with him where he said that he would do the
scene and act like how he would act, and then
she would take the footage and study it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, so that's why you gave merge together very you know,
what it felt. Another show that's doing well with this
is Sweet Tooth in Twisted Metal. The way that the
voice actor in the in the what's his name? Yes, yeah,
merge so well into one character. You never really question
whether or not the voice is there. And this one
actually has to move the mouth. You know what I mean,
(09:43):
Sweet Tooth, it's a mask.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's easy. Well, this was It's beautifully done all.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
The way to the to the lackluster post credits scene, which,
by the way, did you say, Please tell me you
stayed for that?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
There buzz?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Was it after the credits had ran completely? Yeah, I
missed it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You're gonna love this. I looked it up. I had
a time to see if there was one, and I
saw that. The director said, we wanted to make the
most boring, just nonsense and the credit scene we could
possibly come up with. And it's just him making a
grilled cheese, telling you how he makes a girl cheese,
and the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's like, sometimes I use Mayo.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
He's like, you had to add a little list for
a little bit of pop that crunch.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Sometimes, yeah, sometimes you put cheese on the outside and
then let it melt onto the outside of the bread.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It was funny.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I didn't think it was gonna get one right. I
was like, nah, they probably wouldn't do that. And you know,
my wife kind of runs out of the theater when
it's over. And I noticed some people stayed, and I
was like, should I stay?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Did you see the Toxi will return? No?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I didn't, but I figured they would do that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Hold on, do you guys keep talking for just a second.
I got to see if I can find because someone
took a picture.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, there was like a there's probably like the underjoke.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh yeah, the whole stream.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
It was. It's like, Toxi will return and it's like, uh.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Talk about something else, I'll come back to it. I'm
looking all right, I'm looking so featured.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Did you like the hawks she hawk moment where you
like put the uh, put some of the ooze?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, the j character I bring her back.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I kind of remember that loosely a little bit. I
feel like that happened to the original.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
She had gotten shot and then he like squeezes the go.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I was like, man, this is an incredible hawk kind
of thing. I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I wonder, I wonder if they're going to play into
that later on, Like I wonder if that comes back around,
because there's.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No way this this movie's kind of get a sequel.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, we got to pass it around more.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, it does need to get passed around, That's no question.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That'll be the way.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It's almost like basket Case, where it's like you have
like crazy si Siamese monster brother and then in part
two and three everyone's in evening.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
If they could do I feel like they could remake
all of those, all the Toxic Avenger movies for today
like they did with this one.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it would work just as well.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
One thing I would like to say that they did
extremely well was and they invited a lot of social
norms that will either make people feel icky or go
like oh that's kind of cool, right, yeah, a very
subtle way.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Right, waiting them off about it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You know, the the gang group and the little like
food joint extremists and stuff that was in the original.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, absolutely was a lot of.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Nods to Lloyd's like style is gonzo style, kind of
like taking whatever he can get and putting it in
any way, it doesn't matter if it makes sense or not.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, just for entertainment. Purposes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, movies are smoking mirrors, so you're kind of putting
this together and this together and making a picture.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Probably not out yet, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I tried.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I'll go see it again.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'll try.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But it was it was like Toxic will Return in
megaplex vision and it goes down the screen.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That add so many things.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's great because like Lloyd, I don't know how he
did it. Man, Maybe it was because it was the eighties,
but Lloyd got away with putting that like kind of
like something you wouldn't say in public. Yeah, in public,
like the Truma kind of their reputation is where there's
almost like no boundaries. But from what I understand, you
know what I mean, like they really allow artistic freedom,
(13:19):
like within the creativity of like their network, how they
they built their their franchise. So it's pretty neat to
see that it's still keeping that like kind of like
edge edge crossing humor, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's got that eighties sprinkled on it. Oh yeah, yeah,
it's got that eighties cult sprinkle.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Not taking itself so seriously where it's like if you
say something that's like offensive, it's like they really meant,
you know, I mean like they're just doing it to
Like when.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I saw that guy lose his jaw. Yeah, you saw
a guy at the top of his head. Oh my god,
what I forgot all about? That was the funniest I'll
have this time. See.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That was what I was saying about wanting to go
back and see it again, because like every time I
looked at a joke, there was another joke following it,
and one happening behind it, and then one on the
screen written too, And it's like I can't read and
watch all that.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yeah, I thought it was dope, Patty guy all that.
They really touched on that lude and gore behavior that
the old.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Films had into this way. Yeah, getting miss a.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Bi Oh look the one journalist who wouldn't die, He
just kept shooting him.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You've got nothing in the project of the window.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
This is the top of his head.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
His brain then explodes and then he just crawls around
on the floor like just alive.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wait, wait, hold on it.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I gotta ask, Buzz, what was your reaction to the
one badman who honestly I thought was a mutant chicken
the entire time O.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
The mutant Chicken thing. Yeah so good.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
It felt like as soon as you would get like
too much into the movie, it would go to the
mute and chicken.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
This is a joke, just so you know what you're watching,
Just so you know what you're watching. But we loved it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
You know at the end when he's like there and
there's the chicken, the chickens all scared.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Where's you're getting that?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Like, like, you know, I don't know a lot of
making Blair's work. I know he did The green Room,
which is like a really intense.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Fo oh wow. That was the same guy who did
The green Room.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, making Blair.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Wow, The green Room is rough man. Somebody told me
to watch that one time, and that blew me away.
You can't even mourn anyone in that movie. That's just like,
oh oh now the next person.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh yeah, that's just like the worst part of society.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Manah.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I think I love this one because like it kind
of almost is like The Monsters in a way, like yes,
the monster stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It belongs up there with like, I know, this is
a weird one to bring up, but twenty one Jump
Street the remake the new one, because again, it knows
what it is, and that's why it works this very much.
And a black Dynamite is a perfect example because again
it knows what it's able to get away with, jokes
that nobody else can, like like the acid piss that.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
God, that's so funny. I forgot so much that scene that.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Leaked before it came out, and everyone was like, oh
my god, like, what.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Is he doing? What is They didn't, you couldn't. It
wasn't immovable image. It was a static image. They were like,
what is that? Oh I didn't. I didn't tell my
wife about it because I was like, and she just
she fell out due she's pissing herself.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I liked it before they got to the inclusive eighties,
like so it was the girls lifting their tops.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh yeah, and then it goes right into a pain
and you're like.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And that's trumpan man because they're like, we're not going
to exploit just one type of person that we're exploiting everybody. Yeah,
they were. They were phenomenal for that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
A lot of people made like their debuts in Trema films, Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I mean hell, one of the first things of James
Gun you'll ever see is wildly offensive.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh yeah, Trump and Juliet Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
But it's this.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I can't say enough how much this is worth your time. Like,
if you even have a passing interest in seeing this movie,
I would recommend seeing it on the big screen with people.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, because it's fun.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I love that everybody laughed at different things.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Absolutely, yeah, I mean I I laughed out loud a lot.
My wife's looking at me, grabbing my arm being like
I love seeing you this happy, because.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Like I just love movies like that.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Like I'm gonna drop an image in the chat for
another movie called Psycho Gorman, which is a huge.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So much Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
So Psycho Garman is kind of like my It's like tox.
He's like the same yeah cap style, you know. But
I tell you my favorite part of the whole movie, dude,
and this is like meta was months ago, when you know,
like you know, having a rough week at work, I
would play this song and dance with my little dog
in the kitchen and my kids and my wife would
(17:57):
crack up. And it was the look of love by
the ABC at the end and when the sun is
doing the theatrical song was a song I was using
to make myself feel better. And then it popped into
the movie for them for the kid, and I'm like,
it's that song that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I love and this once the Sun has the confidence
to dance.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yes, dances through the post credit scene like as he's
making the the.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So good dude. It's it's a breakfast club moment. It's
a John Hughes moment.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And somehow they layered in this like wacky b horror
movie on top of it. You're getting both at the
same time. That's why it's so good. That's why I
text you guys and like go see it because it's
like such a it's a feel good movie.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I hate this.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's weird, is about it. It had ted Lasso characters
in it. Yeah, like the actors from Ted lassoer in
the movie.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Its weird.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
As I'm watching it, I'm like this this god like
this like it reached out and gave me a toxic hug.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, I feel I'm so so glad I got
to see it, and I got to see it in
the theater.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I obviously it would have went to streaming, but like
I was like, man, I hope it's playing around here,
and it was, and I immediately bought tickets because watching
it being like the Little Movie that Could, and then
watching the promotion at San Diego and Elijah coming out
and Peter coming out and Lloyd getting together and being like, yeah,
like this is my I'm not mad about this. That
Lloyd gets mad about a lot of stuff in movies
and politics, so to see him support his own rebirth.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, and he did say this is probably his last hurrah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh, well this is a good hurrah man. Yeah. I
mean I didn't he pop up at the end.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, he was the he was the guy in uh
was he always got the golf hat.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, eye trousers, very shamp.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh and I love I just I saw an interview
with was talking about how you can't can't call the superhero.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, I can't call it the superhero because of the
trademark on the name.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
He's a super Hue. He's a super mutant hero.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You can change it super hero.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
That's what he ca It was ironic.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They definitely the license plate on the car that Toxi
fell on had a New Jersey's license plate, but they
didn't do a lot of new over New Jersey stuff,
you know.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No, I think they wanted it to feel very every towns.
It was very Springfielding, Yeah, Springfield exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
It did have a couple of Jersey nods in there,
the license plates and newspapers and stuff like.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That, but it felt like nothing I'd seen but every
Toxic Avenger thing I'd seen.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Now absolutely Man's elements to all of it. You know,
the fact that he was like it.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Because when you see the pictures of them and you see,
you know, the stills from the old movies or the
other films, it's like, like, what is that guy? But
then when when you get into it, you're like, oh,
he's a good guy, you know what I mean? And again,
you know, you know, I like the monster good guys.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So I keeps popping out throughout the Yeah, you're popping
it back then.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The little pupil moving was cool, and the round the
corner so funny.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Dude, when he rips the first guy's arm off, that's
what you knew, You really knew. You The trippiness in
the opening was one thing, but ripping the arm off
was like, oh, well, hey.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, here we have a real kill bill real quick.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I loved how he came out through the shadow. Yeah,
you know, it was like the glow around him and stuff.
Man really well done, some very cool effects there.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Like I love how fickle and like flip floppy, like
the people of the sat Where was it called Saint Romasville? Romasville, Yeah,
Roma's village. It was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Every time you see all everything's messed out, just as Trumboville.
But the the people were just so flip floppy.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I loved it. They were like, boo people, we save people, right.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You don't need time to build up.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Just in the same scene they're screaming aground. Yeah, Superman
just did.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That, right, interesting, that was what he would Right before
he goes at the uh the band, the nets, the
oh yeah ICP band too Much, takes the stage, does
his own song. Everyone's like yeah, and it turns around
(22:13):
just slaughters. They're like, why did he do that? You
know these people are evil?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Or what the lead singer shoots him like that's not
what he looks like. Oh my god again again. I
can't say enough. Go see the movie.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's a comic book on a screen.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, you know what everybody's saying that right now. This
deserves it. Yeah, this deserves it. This this will be
one of the best Movies of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
It's in my top five for no question, no question.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I cannot wait for it to come out on digital.
I want to watch it again.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Hopefully there's still more showing because again it's not going
to be easy to find tickets.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
At least for where I am. There wasn't many theaters
and there wasn't many showings.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
So yeah, if you're seeing this, get out there and
go go support it because Real Quick deserves a bigger run.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
John, I was gonna say, I just noticed this, sorry
to jump in the day before it came out, they announced,
I believe the Cineverse announced that for every million dollars
it makes, it's paying like fifty thousand in medical debt
for people.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh whoa wow, A lot.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I don't know if those numbers are accurate, but they're big,
and they said the better it does, the more they're
going to pay off medical debt for people.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I mean, that's incredible. Yeah, So I'm gonna go see
it again. If you guys made it this far in
the video, go support that film.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Don't hit likes, don't hit subscribe, go out to see then,
come back then and subscribe. All right, So christ before
we end, before we wrap this up, I still have
up yeah I do. Let me, let me, let me
pull up this image because we just have to set
the record straight for a quick second here.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Come on, come on, come on, technical difficulties, get.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
With the boots.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
With the boots, Heed me with the boots. But this
is the news we're about to get into with the
well people.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Losing their mind for weird things. I will show you
as soon as I can hit the button to make
the thing happen. Look, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
There is all right.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
So a lot of people have been talking about this poster.
This apparently is at D twenty three, and I want
to say, bullshit. Right, this is making its rounds and
a lot of people are saying that this is a
Marvel like It says it's got the copyright in the
corner twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, yeah, right there, Marvel copyright twenty twenty five. But
this is not Marvel's. This is fan art that's been
around for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah, it's it's not anywhere close to something that Marvel
would put out.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You can tell that they pulled the PNGs from a
website and put them together. It's a beautiful folk for
what it is. But let's not take this too far. Yeah, like,
there's almost no synergy in this this picture. They're just there.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
It's also taking all the spices out of the spice
where I can putting them into the suit.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well, you know, we're getting a poster like this, You're
really right, there's no question, but we are one hundred
percent getting a poster similar to this whenever it comes out.
But this is not official, as we can see right
here in the corner, yeah, right there. Yeah, this is
not Marvels. So this picture, please stop falling for it.
And honestly, I think people just need to take a step.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Back on some of the news. Yeah let it, let
it ride for a minute.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Because the whole RDJ fighting Robert or Robert Danny ju
or yeah, Robertanny Junior fight Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That was a tweet.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Somebody said, I wonder if it was those two and
then everyone went, oh, they're beefing.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Everybody. Relax.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Everybody wants to be first to the market with you know,
the hot goss on, like what's going on? This is
our obviously fake because the light, the hologen light in
the ceiling would be reflective behind them the thin sheer
banner and you can't see the light behind it.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's a very good point, very hungry to be like,
look what you know, getting the most clicks or getting
the most like shares and the virility of a post.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Dude, they may have gotten twelve cents for that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Now it's going to be on those like satin shirts
with the collar.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Stop making fun of my shirts.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Your shirt cool because of print like moves. I'm talking.
This is like the full body print where it's like
as the person turns into the poster.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, I think I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Then whatever, You're.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Right, yours officially a mirror. But that's fine. That's all
in the show.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I got traumatized, you know, and so did I anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
But still, I, you know, take that news aside. That's
just so I can make a different clip later.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I want to go back to the news that's actually important,
which is how good that uh tox he was so
cannot stress again.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Go see the movie. Knowing what it supports all the
more reason to see it more than once. It does definitely.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Deserves multiple showings, and I hope that movies like this
don't fall by the wayside, Like the last time I
saw a movie like this, this is way better then,
but I still really liked was ONYX the Fortuitous.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a fun movie too, man,
And I missed those kind of goofy movies. Yeah, I
don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
All right, Well, yeah, that's gonna do it. That's gonna
do it once again. We already did that called action,
didn't we Come on, we kind of did. We did
it with more, but we did it for the film,
so we'll do it for that.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
So if you've made it past that first call to
action up to this one, please follow us on all socials,
that comic podcast everywhere except for ex formally Twitter, which
is that comic pot And again, you made it this far,
like comic subscribe, We're here for you, baby.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I am Features. Features is wrapping up every video from
now on. That's the damn sure, I'm not that. I'm
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