Troma's War

Plot synopsis:
After a commercial airline crashes on an uncharted island, the surviving passengers, a multi-cultural cross-section of the US population, notice armed uniformed people of various countries apparently looking for survivors. When one of passengers surrenders herself, she's brutally shot. It becomes evident that the island is a terrorist infiltration camp. When passenger Parker, a tough, slightly unstable Nam vet, manages to kill one of the attackers, he and the fellow passenger, everyman Taylor, lead the other survivors to a safe haven, only to have part of their number captured. Brought to a training base, the captured are forced to watch a neo-Nazi horrifically murder an air steward and a priest. The remaining passengers gather what weapons they can find and make a rough attempt at storming the camp in hopes of recovering their lost friends. At the camp, a musician's girlfriend is shot and killed by an obese terrorist wielding an AK-47 assault rifle. The bandleader, Sean, attacks and loses a fight with the Nazi, and the rocker's female bandmate is taken away to be attacked and raped by "Señor Sida" (Mr. AIDS), leader of the AIDS brigade who hope to begin an US AIDS epidemic.
Meanwhile, an attractive African-American woman is taken to the brains of the operation, a pair of twins conjoined at the head. Parker and Taylor lead the remaining passengers in a surprise attack on the terrorists' hideout. Sida is dispatched by his victim via a crossbow bolt in the scrotum. Having been transformed by her experience, the African American lady hunts down the Twins and violently hacks them apart with a machete. She then goes after a terrorist who tried to have his way with her and stuffs a grenade in his mouth.
Realizing the terrorists' are prepared to invade America, the remaining survivors are motivated to take steps in attacking the terrorists' main headquarters the next morning. Later that night, the formerly hostile Taylor and Lydia share an intimate moment. The men prepare to storm the camp but refuse to let the women go with them so they don't put their lives at risk. Hardwick, a depressed widower, volunteers to drive a truck full of explosives into a cargo boat hauling the terrorists into the US. Hardwick however is shot down, ruining their plan. The Americans do their best, eliminating mass numbers of the enemy. Running out of ammo the group awaits their last moments when the females ride in and help kill off the terrorists. A timid, morbidly obese passenger named Cooney musters his courage and decides to fill Hardwick's role. He fights his way through the terrorists blocking his way until he gets to the truck. Just as the boat is taking off, Cooney drives the truck off a ramp into the boat, destroying it. The unlikely heroes mourn the loss of Cooney, until he appears unharmed, having ditched the truck at the last minute.

Tags: violence, cult, psychedelic, satire

Review:
This movie has everything a B-movie lover could want: Shootings, explosions, a multifarious cast, action, violence, thrills, mayhem, and romance!
One of the finest pieces of opus ever embraced by the human being.Essentially, TROMA'S WAR is a spoof of the action and war genres.
The film's contrived plot concerns a bunch of incompetent plane crash survivors on an island.
Will the survivors beat the odds, or will the world spell doom?TROMA'S WAR is a fine amalgram of the features expected in a comedy, horror, and action mixture.
Unlike most Troma films, this satricial flick offers caustic political commentary about biological warfare and fascist terrorism.
The black humor in TROMA'S WAR is subtle at times, conspiciously sleazy during most other parts of this movie.
Also, the delightfully amateurish cast in Troma's War also must receive approbation for having lots of fun with this movie.
Highly recommended movie to all connoiseurs of fun, low budget films.
A movie treat guaranteed to provide an entertaining time with lots of friends.RATING: ***1/2 out of ****..
Great Troma movie.
The last guy who commented on it has obviously never watched a Troma film before.
The cheesy humor is another staple in the making of a great "movie of the future" I mean, an evil general with AIDS?
If you don't enjoy Tromas War, you probably don't love Bloodsucking Freaks either, which makes you a moron.
If you've never watched a Troma movie before, don't comment on them as if your film tastes are so advanced.
Author: plazma_dragon wrote 'The makers of this film tried to combine a comedy movie with an action movie'.no, that's not what they did.
what the wonderful folks at troma did in this film is to take all the conventions of all Hollywood action films set in the contemporary era, and push them to their logical extremes.the action film is inherently illogical - that's exactly why we watch them.
in the action film you identify with the hero and blow away a criminal as soon as you can, and move on to the next criminal to blow away.in real life, if you shoot someone you think is committing a crime, you may miss and get shot; you may only wound him, in which case you have to listen to his squeals of pain, and later, in most states, he has the right to come back and sue you for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon - no joke.
you can sue the criminal, but if he's just the corner thug, you'll never see a penny.this doesn't mean that you don't shoot the criminal - you may need to - if he's threatening a loved one, and i got a good shot, i certainly would.
but what all this does mean is that you're stuck with all kinds of consequences that never happen to Stallone or snipes or Jackie Chan.troma takes this basic principle - shoot the guy and move on, hero - to the extremes.
the pacifist priest is sadistically tortured and shot in the goriest fashion, condemned to die by a neo-Nazi for being Jewish - even though he's clearly not - simply because the Nazi thinks everyone he kills must be Jewish, since he's a Nazi and Nazis kill Jews.as for the nudity - it is rumored that steven seagal actually used to have it in his contract that there would be at least one female nude scene in any movie he made.
nude scenes are pro-forma to the genre - but since this is troma's war, of course they need to be done as ineptly as possible.one can say that 'this is not my kind of comedy', and leave it alone.
however, don't for a minute think these people don't know what they're doing.personally i think this movie is a jaw-dropping, over-the-top satire of the best kind.
Forget Coppola´s "Apocalypse Now" and Spielberg´s "Saving Private Ryan" because this film is the ultimate contribution to the genre of war movies!
Typically Troma, you´ll find lots of cheesy F/X and bad acting in it, however this shot is not as awful as many other flicks produced by this company: "Troma´s War" is REALLY entertaining, what´s absolutely no guarantee for the other works of Lloyd Kaufman´s firm.
With its exaggerated patriotism "Troma´s War" is also a nice parody on all those soldier-movies like "Rambo" or "Delta Force", which were very popular in the Reagan-ruled 1980s.
I liked this movie even more than "Combat Shock", that is alleged to be a touching anti war-drama, but after all only a cheap and boring film!
It is very unsubtle, full of cartoonish shootouts where the same bad guy terrorists get mowed down by the good guy plane crash survivors, some cheesy sex and boob scenes, with an original hard rock background music score.
Basically, a random bunch of people crash on a Caribbean Island: punk rocker, Wall Street yuppie, hysterical woman, priest, etc etc; owned by Cuba.
So this motley bunch of survivors, led by an ex Airborne Vietnam vet, start kicking some serious butt instead.There isn't too much of a plot after that, but plenty of gratuitous violence on the level of Monty Python, with more shootout scenes than ten action movies put together.
But it definitely is chock full of special effects and weapons, especially for a low budget flick.To call this a politically incorrect movie is a euphemism for a totally bad taste movie.
TROMA'S WAR isn't a great film by any respects but this highly cheesy war movie is certainly the best Troma film I've seen to date.
This is because the majority of Troma films are cheap, gross-out comedies with rubbish acting and effects.
This has the cheapness and the rubbish acting, but in some places it's actually quite decent.You could call TROMA'S WAR a camp classic if you were feeling charitable and it's certainly an '80s film through and through.
Inevitably it's up to them to stop it which they attempt to do in the most violent ways imaginable.There's no real plot here after the initial set up, just a bunch of random action and war sequences joined together.
The film is marred by horrible over acting and more screaming than in a dozen horror flicks, but it does have a wealth of war action and violence to recommend it.
Seen uncut it's a gruesome film with some surprisingly explicit moments like the excruciating tongue extraction scene and plenty of bloody squib hits.
Troma goes to war, and depending on your expectations it delivers what you expect.
Troma's War, about a group of refugees from a plane crash stranded on an island with wild Commandos led by a two-headed politician planning the extinction of America...
is some ridiculous s***.But for the first two thirds Kaufman and Herz and company 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 Troma's War is at its most impressive and eye catching when Kaufman skewers 80s action movies and Regan era militarism.
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.
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 little 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 antics and one liners (and I mean DUMB for a movie by these f****rs), though it's almost saved by a side characters stunt from a truck onto a boat.I want to like it more - it's shot with more competency than other Troma movies, has ambitious and exciting stunts and effects, 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...
This is Troma's answer to the Rambo kind of films that were doing well all around.
This should have been as big a worldwide hit in theaters all over the world, if it weren't for the censors who always kindly cooperate with the big conglomerates, but while Rambo got it's R-rating with it's countless bullets, shot wounds, amounts of senseless violence and streams of blood, Troma's War wasn't treated with the same courtesy.
While not more excessively violent or bloody than any of the drek that the big studio's poured out over the audiences, Troma's War was submitted to countless cuts, making it a rather senseless film, of which all the guts (literally and metaphorically), storyline and message were deleted, with the predictable result that no one really could care for the film anymore.
Troma's War in it's entirety is a masterpiece, a brilliant film that seems to pretend to be the Rambo-kind-of-film, and should please audiences that like that stuff, but in the meantime is so much more than that: it is an intelligent film with a layered texture, a superb story and a lot of fun.
Furthermore, the film features the first appearance of Troma's soon to be Superstar Joe Fleishaker.
And it is the first movie to address the aids problem, long before any of the bigger studios even dared to touch it, again proving how much ahead of it's time Troma has always been.
The director's audio-commentary is, as is always the case with Lloyd Kaufman's tracks, a wonderfully insightful feature, worth the price of the disc itself, and it explains in depth the evil works with which the big guys in the film-making world go to great lengths to put the independents out of business.
But Troma's War still goes on  35 years and counting!
is another quickie exploitation film churned out by the Troma Team.
Like all of Troma, the film is heavy on the bad taste (even comes with AIDS jokes) nudity, action, etc.
I saw TROMA WAR's in the best possible enviorment for a Troma film, the old Times Square, in a run down theatre with a wall made up of tarp, along with a local lunatic who decided to sit in his seat in the lotus position and face the audience during the film.
A really war movie, not bull***t..
Yeah Yeah Yeah, I love War, and love Troma (this was the comment of a partner here in Germen's Cine Club).
This movie is amazing, is amazing his original and un-censured duration, is amazing how good the directors can see how the war is in the countries of the third world.
This movie have sex, violence a priest and a blind woman, a pig who command an army and a ninpho maniac in panties.
In this movie an airplane crash at the begin and this scene is wonderful, then a little war begins and the movie gets better and better and better.
You can also see a guy gets the best chic, a blind girl who finally find his cane, a good one.
Never!) film making to the extent that it's 'so bad it's good' is expected, since because that is surely the intention of the Troma oeuvre, anyway:So, if not to be another why waste ya time to watch, then first I would suggest you set it up as a fun billing along with others, not of the classic Arnold/ Sly more serious war is macho genre, but rather those of similar - but unintentionally so, though - dross of the likes of the S.
Then as settling in for the inevitable ineptness, parts I found fun were the constant jewellery wearing air crash survivors (dangly spangly earrings especially) and the fact that the island army is surely made up of extras who were told to bring their own approximations of military outfit gear: the incongruities displayed are legion.Of them, you can then also get a fine appreciation of the stunts people in executing their chops, be it jumping (mostly backwards) over objects (sandbags, oil drums, other 'dead' compatriots) or putting themselves in the correct position to plummet, 'shot and dead', from high places, trees especially: and, around the middle an amusing Arnold accent take rant in favour of the corrupt (US!) system but then soon after a quite rather prescient almost 'conspiracist theory' the terrorist threat is really from inside from the system elite rejoinder from the hero (i.e well written scriptwriters): Then, throughout the interminable battles, there is a great wailing guitar background soundtrack to enjoy, too by which to get you finally to the end, at which point having so sat through such deliberate tosh, I would implore you wait around until the last end credit has rolled: it's a great denouement to the 'seriousness' of all that's gone before, making it, really, inarguably, surely one of Troma's best entries..
This is the epitome of low budget classic film making.
Lloyd Kaufmen delivers the goods with TROMA'S WAR.
Lloyd put together an impressive cast for this one, and introduced us to the great Joe Fleshieker (who returned in other Troma classics).
At the time I couldn`t believe how movies like RAMBO , MISSING IN ACTION and UNCOMMON VALOR ( And who can forget the ridiculous RED DAWN ?
TROMA`S WAR is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you`ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place ?
TROMA`S WAR lacks any sort of sophistication - though it does make the point that there`s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones - and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up .
Also, the plot is flimsy at best, the characters are unrealistic and undeveloped, and the acting is some of the worst I have ever seen.
The makers of this film tried to combine a comedy movie with an action movie, and they failed on both counts.
Some poorly made movies are funny because they are so bad, but this is not one of them..
I guess you have to get in the right state of mind to enjoy a film like this, otherwise the annoying characters, cheesy humor and stupid plot just might exhaust you.
One of the best B-movies/war flicks I've ever seen.
Plenty of bullets and blood, Troma's War has a rare thing in a Troma film: a plot, actually a kinda convoluted one.
One of the best Troma films, in my opinion..
I don't know if anyone has posted this about this movie, but I feel like a m watching Lost b version.
Wars between the survivors and the people already on the island.Darnes.
Troma's War puts a spin on the wilderness shoot-em-ups we've become so used to, and we welcome it..
While viewers looking to satisfy their action fix might not immediately run to Troma, here they show what they can do with the genre.
So Lloyd Kaufman and his team fashioned Troma's War, which has all the gun-shooting, blow-ups, fighting, and guard tower falls as any other movie you might see, but it has that wild n' wacky, politically incorrect humor that Troma is known for.
It's their take on the jungle slog genre, and as long as you don't take it too seriously, you should have a good time watching it.We can't be sure if this falls into the categories of parody, satire, spoof, or if this was their sincere attempt at a guns-blazing action movie.
Sure, the body count is huge, and it takes a lot of time to kill that many people, but as an exercise in silliness, there surely are parts that could have been trimmed down.
But Troma's War must have had an influence, because it's plainly obvious that the makers of Lost ripped off a lot from this movie.
Any Lost fans out there, simply watch the first few minutes of Troma's War: you may notice some interesting similarities, such as a bunch of different personalities on a beach with a lot of plane wreckage strewn about, and a male character even needs to be sewn up by a female character.
The way it looks and the way it's shot looks very familiar.The movie truly is Rick Washburn at his absolute best, and it shows you can be a middle-aged man with thinning hair and still kill the baddies with aplomb.
But that's what the movie's all about: people of different ages and nationalities banding together in unity to save the United States.
If not, Troma's War provides enough entertainment value anyway.
How tongue-in-cheek it all is may be open to audience interpretation.Featuring the songs "Alive" and "Storm is Rising" by Christopher DeMarco (which are entirely in keeping with the genre and one is even used during this movie's version of a training sequence), Troma's War puts a spin on the wilderness shoot-em-ups we've become so used to, and we welcome it.