VividSimon Simply Perfect

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Prismark10 Tromaville High is overrun by punks causing mayhem. A few months ago they were decent kids but weed cultivated in the toxic sludge from the nearby nuclear plant have driven them to rabid craziness and soon a toxic monster will be unleashed.Class of Nuke 'Em High is a Z grade film from Troma but it still manages to get some kind of social message across through all that gory violence from the high school bullies, tits n ass, bad taste comedy, a monster on the loose and some atrocious acting.

BA_Harrison Your typical 80s Troma film is a trashy low-budget piece of B-movie excess featuring lousy acting, lame humour, comic-book violence, gratuitous nudity, bad music, and even worse fashion; generally, this kind of exceedingly puerile, deliberately crappy nonsense has me cursing the day Lloyd Kauffman was born, but very occasionally I find that the Troma formula actually delivers a pretty good time, as is the case with Class of Nuke 'Em High, which displays just enough manic inventiveness and anarchic energy to ensure that boredom is never an option. Lots of gloopy gore and the impressive sight of lovely Janelle Brady in (and out of) her bikini also go a long way to make this one much easier to endure.Janelle plays Chrissie, one of the students at Tromaville High School, which lies in the shadow of the town's nuclear facility. When Chrissie shares a joint with her boyfriend Warren, unaware that the weed has been grown on the toxic land adjacent to the power plant, she finds herself in a sudden state of arousal leading to some impromptu rumpy pumpy with her more than eager beau. Of course, as everyone knows, unprotected sex while high on radioactive reefer can result in the birth of an ugly slug-baby only a few days later, a creature that can rapidly grow into a massive monster given the right environment—such as a warm basement full of toxic waste, just like the one under Tromaville High!With wee gags, fart gags, a gang of outrageously daft punks, lots of ugly people, a swim-wear frat party, and plenty of surprisingly decent make-up effects (including the monster punching right through a woman's head), this clearly isn't high art, but if you're only going to watch one Troma film in your life, and you cant lay your grubby paws on Poultrygeist or The Toxic Avenger, you might as well make it this.

D. Ceased Before this and "The Toxic Avenger", Troma did really normal horror/thriller/erotica movies. It wasn't until "Combat Shock" that the movies got a little weird, but "The Toxic Avenger" and "Class of Nuke 'Em High" really started the whole toxic love obsession that has become associated with Mr. Kaufman and Troma."Class of Nuke 'Em High" is a simple story about Tromaville and it's one big problem, the nearby nuclear powerplant is infecting all the town's weed with toxic materials. And boy, the weed, nicknamed Atomic High, has bad side-effects. It starts messing with Chrissy and Warren's hormones. Problems increase when the school's gang takes over the school. Then a mutated monster, the effects of the powerplant, attacks the school and kills all the gang members. Using a really fake looking laser, Warren manages to kill the monster, and live happily, mutated ever after.Yes it is a trashy plot, and laughable to some, but for someone like I, it is an amazing plot. I can not put into words how much I love this movie. The scene where the geek starts spewing slime was awesome. Sure, the acting isn't the greatest, but it's good ol' fashioned trashy fun. A must see for anyone into tasteless movies.

MisterWhiplash Easy as pie: let a decrepit little town like Tromaville go to waste to save the face of a pig-like boss as a nuclear power facility that's spreading its nuclear crap all over. And, of course, let the high school be (slightly) inflicted on by the toxic sludge, sometimes in the water or in the basement or on random teachers. Oh, and of course don't mind the toxic-pot (made for an "Atomic High", so clever!) that people might smoke and then gain certain nuclear powers (or, for that matter, have little toxic babies that miscarry). But, last but not least, make sure the monster gets out that's been gestating in the basement of the school just to wreak havoc on those bastard Cretin gang motorcycling through the school.Oh, don't worry if I spoiled you anything. While Class of Nuke 'Em High has a plot, it shouldn't be at all your concern. This is the cream of the crop of Z-grade film-making, done with a budget that would make Corman wince and with tons of ingenuity and awesomely bad special effects gore and make-up. The humor is juvenile and stupid and all the better for it; this movie requires that there be bizarre characters, but this goes a step further by making it like a cross between Return of the Living Dead and Lean on Me. The bullies are ass-wipes who are decked out so much you can't see anything like they actually look like (one of which donning a nose ring to rival any one ever worn or seen), and all of the main "good" characters are (near) defenseless dweebs and sweethearts or bad comic relief.And what it comes down to is this - Class of Nuke 'Em High is far from any high art- even its repetitive and sometimes intrusive generic 80's rock track grows thin after the opening theme song- but it's a fantastic party movie. Throw it on and tune in, or maybe sometimes tune out if you wish, and have lots of laughs (and sometimes raised eyebrows) at the mania pulled off here. The monster looks cheap as hell and funny as Hades wearing a tutu, and some of the dialog is actually quite quotable when not trying a little *too* hard. It knows its badness and embraces it with a beer in one hand a slimy crap in the other.One either goes for this as the trash it is or they don't. Those that do get the rewards that Troma offers best, and in this case (with the exception of Toxic Avenger) it's most likely the go-to example for how Troma started out in the 80's. All they could care about is getting smart (or dumb is fine) kids to chew on horror-comedy that is 1/3 parody, 1/3 gross-out, and 1/3 flat out awful. Somehow it all comes together and makes for a wild little ride after midnight.