Troma's War (1988)

Absolutely the worst movie.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

When a plane crashes on the remote island of Isla de Providencia, the survivors of the wreck find they're in for a nasty surprise. While they were total strangers moments before the crash, now they must band together to fight battalions of terrorists using the Cuba-controlled island for training to take over the U.S.! These communist-terrorists may have met their match when it comes to the everyday citizens aboard the plane, such as Parker (Washburn, using the name Michael Ryder), a gun expert who presumably was in Vietnam, A grandma in her 70's, Dottie (Dublin), a blind girl, Jennifer (Petruno), and the large-and-in-charge Cooney (Romanoff), who is just one of the many unlikely heroes to emerge from this conflict. Will the baddies prevail? Will there be a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top? Will their nefarious plans be stopped by the unanticipated heroes? Find out today! While viewers looking to satisfy their action fix might not immediately run to Troma, here they show what they can do with the genre. The 80's action boom was so huge in video stores, clearly Troma wanted in on the action. Literally. 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. But whatever this is, it didn't have to be 105 minutes long. 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. If you can have Middle Aged Punks, surely you can have a middle-aged hero. But that's what the movie's all about: people of different ages and nationalities banding together in unity to save the United States. It's a positive message that's not heavy-handed, and it's certainly there beneath all the machine gun shooting and gross-out humor, if you choose to see it. 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.

This is truly an awful movie and a waste of 2 hours of your life. It is simultaneously bland and offensive, with nudity and lots and lots of violence. However, the nudity is not that exciting, and the violence is repetitive and boring. 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. I have heard that this movie is supposed to be funny, but it's not. I did not laugh once while watching it, nor did I even crack a smile. 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.

Typically low-rent action fare, full of repetitive action scenes that are neither exciting nor funny. 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. (*1/2)

Yeah Yeah Yeah, I love War, and love Troma (this was the comment of a partner here in Germen's Cine Club). This comment was acclaimed and approved by all the good citizen in Germen´s. 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. If you see this movie you can love it or you are an ignorant, sub human non lyric man. 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. The the goods win and the bad loose. You can see a rocker guy, much woman's in tits, and a priest called jew by a nazi. You can also see a guy gets the best chic, a blind girl who finally find his cane, a good one. Well you have to seen this one, before you can say i am a complete man. This movie is a hundred time better that the Spilberga movie Saving private Ryan.