The hero we need now.
When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze, is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.
- Body horror
- Graphic violence
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Unpretentious, resolved, nostalgic and comic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- jackmeaton TMDB · Oct 20257/10
My quick rating - 7.0/10. Somewhere in the cosmic video store of nostalgia, my 12-year-old self just did a cartwheel in parachute pants. I grew up rewinding the original Toxic Avenger on worn-out VHS until the tracking lines looked like snowstorms over Tromaville. So when Hollywood whispered “remake,” I braced myself for PG-13 sterilization and emotional damage. But bless Macon Blair’s radioactive heart—he didn’t just do it justice, he hosed it down in glowing sludge and handed it a mop. Our new hero is Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage), a terminally ill janitor who gets baptized in toxic goop and comes out looking like a meatball with abs and a Costco-sized case of trauma. Dinklage doesn’t just play Toxie, he owns him. He swings that glowing mop like Excalibur dipped in biohazard, and suddenly I remembered why deformed vigilantes matter: because nothing says “hero” like ripping someone’s intestines out while trying to make it to parent-teacher night. And can we talk about the casting? Kevin Bacon as the corporate tyrant who drinks villain monologues for breakfast? Chef’s kiss. Elijah Wood pops up as his gremlin-esque brother, looking like he crawled out of a vat of expired hair dye a
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This doesn’t start well, indeed after about ten minutes I thought it was just going to be “Tyrion Lannister” does “Bruce Banner”. Well I was quite pleasantly surprised as it takes those foundations and, with it’s tongue firmly implanted in it’s cheek, and with him suitably armed with his newly radioactive mop, we set off on a crime caper with a difference. Kevin Bacon’s “Bob Garbinger” runs a big chemical company that routinely churns out enough gunge into the rivers and streams of the city to give Julia Roberts and Albert Finney enough work for a lifetime. “Winston” (Peter Dinklage) is trying to rear teenage stepson “Wade” (Jacob Tremblay) whilst holding down a menial job in one of those plants. When he gets a terrible diagnosis from his doctor, he thinks he has company health insurance - but when platinum turns out not to be all it’s cracked up to be, he decides to ask his boss to intercede. That just sees him rather savagely treated and dumped into a drain where, well let’s just say it isn’t envy that has turned him green. Meantime, we learn that all in his garden isn’t exactly rosy for “Garbinger” either, so with hoodlums chasing him and his wacky brother “Fritz” (Elijah Wood d
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Cast
- Peter DinklageWinston / Toxie, the Hero
- Jacob TremblayWade, the Kid
- Taylour PaigeJ.J. Doherty, the Wild Card
- Julia DavisKissy Sturnevan, his Associate
- Jonny CoyneThad Barkabus, the Big Boss
- Elijah WoodFritz Garbinger, his Creepy Brother
- Kevin BaconBob Garbinger, the Villain
- David YowGuthrie Stockins, the Wise Hobo
- Sarah NilesMayor Togar
- Shaun DooleyMel Ferd, the Crusading Reporter
Crew
- Macon BlairDirector
- Macon BlairScreenplay
- Dana GonzalesDirector of Photography
- Brooke BlairOriginal Music Composer
- Will BlairOriginal Music Composer
- Brett W. BachmanEditor
- James ThomasEditor
- Lloyd KaufmanProducer
- Michael HerzProducer
- Mary ParentProducer
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