Shakespeare's Shitstorm (2020)

AKA: #ShakespearesShitstorm

Troma, ever obsessed with the works of Shakespeare, takes on The Tempest. A cruise full of social media influencers and the heads of a pharmaceutical company get caught in a storm of whale diarrhea (just go with it) to trap the corrupt elites in the shithole of Tromaville, New Jersey, where Prospero can take his revenge. Thankfully, Troma hasn't lost its edge, as it takes on "woke" culture and subjects social justice warriors to a taste of their own medicine, devolving into the typical showcase of gross-out humor and cheesy effects.

It tries hard to outdo itself, but mostly ends up capsizing under the pressure.

2½ cocks with a cock out of 5

Return to Nuke 'Em High: Volume 2 (2017)

AKA: Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High

It's unusual for a series to get better as it goes on, but here is a prime example of the final entry being the best. Lloyd Kaufman gives it all he's got in a tribute to past and present and throws everything including the kitchen sink into this. Continuity has never been Troma's strong point and this film gets increasingly more ridiculous, but it wins extra points for managing to outdo even its own standards of bad taste. It's a great labor of love and perversity, and probably the last year a blatantly offensive movie like this could have been released.

3½ toxic menstruations out of 5

Return to Nuke 'Em High: Volume 1 (2013)

The evil health food conglomerate builds an organic food factory over the site of the former nuclear power plant, resulting in contaminated school lunches being distributed among the Tromaville students which chemically alters them into sadistic, mutated cretins. This reboot/sequel somehow goes all the way back around to being good, even though the original wasn't. This film knows who its target audience is and has great fun with its central conceit, which is as weird as anything Troma has ever produced. It's a bad movie done right.

3 bloodgasms out of 5