Overview: Watch the classic Saturday morning cartoon like never before! Based on Troma’s cult classic smash The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Crusaders animated series follows the adventures of that lovable deformed creature of superhuman size and strength, Toxie!

Along with his new friends Yvonne, No-Zone, Head-Banger, and Junkyard, watch as Toxie stands up for truth and justice against the evil Dr. Kilemoff and his hoards of heinous henchmen in this complete series collection!

Blu-ray Verdict: Telling it like it is, I was a BIG fan of Troma films as a kid. I had The Toxic Avenger, Redneck Zombies, The Children, Nuke Em’ High, etc.[ok, mostly on VHS tapes], but it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I found out about Toxic Crusaders.

Alright, just saying, I am an eco-sinner (yes it’s a term now, so far only defined online on Urban Dictionary). Eco-sinners love polluting the earth on purpose for various reasons, and despite being highly knowledgeable on the topic of pollution they care nothing about the environment.

So since I’m a prolific eco-sinner, I usually steer clear of movies and TV programs that show pollution in a bad light (Captain Planet, The Lorax, An Inconvenient Truth, etc.). But hey, I LOVED this cartoon. If I love it and I’m against the environment, then I’m sure chances are you’ll enjoy it even more!

Toxic Crusaders lasted thirteen episodes but parents were wary since the show, albeit harmless for kids and sticking to child-friendly language and animation, was based on the Toxic Avenger film series, notorious for the amount of sex and vulgar language.

Toxic Crusaders follows the adventures of Toxie, a nerdy but caring superhero mutant, along with his team of Tromaville mutant friends and his girlfriend Yvonne, while they fight a gang of mutant pollutants, roach-like creatures from a planet where pollution is to them what oxygen and water is to humans (I want to live on the pollution planet as I’d love it so much more than here on Earth!).

The pollution roaches are ruled by a short leader named Czar, but on Earth most of whom is seen doing the real polluting is Dr. Killemoff, who has to wear a gas mask to survive the air on Earth, has a business suit and the misleading appearance of an industrialist, and smokestacks on his back (never really explained). He has left Tromaville heavily polluted from his many factories and hazardous waste dumping operations.

It wasn’t so much the stupid enviro-hippie propaganda message within the series that I enjoyed. Had it been some other movie or program I likely would’ve hated it. However, Troma’s lovable characters and the cool animation is enough to keep you watching until the end. Oh, and I loved the soundtrack, especially the theme song, which I now have on my phone!

So now it has ben re-released by Troma through MVD Visual, and with a slew of wondrous extras, I urge you to please not pass up this excellent and hilarious cartoon series, because it’s really well worth watching at least once; even if you aren’t a fan of Troma movies.

While the Toxic Avenger certainly isn’t appropriate for kids by any stretch of the imagination (I bought my VHS tapes at a yard sale back then, since my parents would never dream of having bought them for me!), but Toxic Crusaders has no bad language, very little, if any, violence, at least not in a gory blood-shedding way, no pervy sex jokes and is harmless for children.

Thus I highly recommend it for people of any age, although my favorite Troma movies will always be The Children and Redneck Zombies (on a side note, it’d be great if Troma did a film on the Tobacco Man from Redneck Zombies, he was a really cool character). [NOTE: If you didn’t get that there is an enormous amount of sarcasm said above about me personally, then I’m sorry for you!].

Special Features:
New introduction by Lloyd Kaufman
Original Toxic Crusaders toy commercials and TV spots
Feature length documentary about the making of the Toxic Crusaders video game from Retroware
Long lost archival footage of your favorite mop wielding mutant
Bonus cartoons

FROM TROMA ENTERTAINMENT: “While originally animated on 16mm film, “Toxic Crusaders” was mastered on videotape for broadcast, including all digital effects and transitions. To present the series (as well as other included materials) in the best possible quality, we have used advanced AI models to upscale these aging standard definition masters and have presented them in high definition to capture the original broadcast’s intended experience.”

www.troma.com