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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I just find this film so incredibly funny with every watch. as a fan of B movies and trashy horror films, this film hits the spot with it's tremendous humour and just daft situations.I love the fact that film even spoofs it's own budget half way through and so many scenes stand out, the mime artist, the restaurant scene( the interview with the woman is hilarious) the list goes on.The jokes are daft but work, Karen Mistral is stunning and the whole thing works so well. One of those films I still stick on play when little worth watching and it never tires. I truly RELISH this film ( sorry).

Professor Gangreen is cooking up the Great Tomato Uprising, in which music converted tomatoes into human form to war against mankind. Pizza delivery man Chad Finletter must save the world and beautiful tomato-girl Tara.....The problem with this film is that it tries way too hard to be intellectual, and to further it's self away from cheap exploitation.The fact is, no matter how many times you break the fourth wall, or kill the product placement joke to death, you cannot get away from the essence of Troma that the film wreaks off.The actors are great, Clooney was always going to be famous, and the other chap will always be the whining accountant who gets killed by Sanchez in Licence To Kill.It's just the idleness of the whole thing, trying to be an adult orientated comedy, but having that weird furry tomato whom is obviously going for the gizmo look, because kids, they love the merchandise don't they?It loses it's way toward the end of the second act, so they up the ante on sight gags, and more product placement, and fail, miserably.It's a car crash movie of the highest order, you know you shouldn't watch it, but you can't take your eyes of the blasted thing.At least the pizza dough comes down at the end....

Mad scientist Professor Gangreen (a gloriously hammy John Astin) plans on conquering the world with his army of tomato men soldiers. It's up to nice guy pizza maker Chad Finletter (affable Anthony Starke) and his easygoing smoothie best friend Matt Stevens (an engaging performance by George Clooney in an early pre-stardom gig) to stop Gangreen before it's too late. Moreover, Chad falls in love with sweet'n'sexy, yet seriously kooky tomato lady Tara Boumdeay (an adorable portrayal by sultry brunette fox Karen Mistal). Director/co-writer John De Bello crams this flick with plenty of blithely silly and often sidesplitting jokes about such things as product placement, cheesy TV game shows, equally tacky late-night trashy movie marathon television programs, and lousy special effects (Gangreen's house is an obvious crummy matte painting), plus tosses in a corny romantic montage set to a hideously sappy song (watch out for the irritating mime!), a scene-stealing hairball mutant tomato named FT, a snake that growls like a dog, a nonsensical gratuitous fight scene complete with ninjas, and loads of priceless dippy dialogue (favorite line: "The girl of my dreams is a vegetable"). The cast have a field day with the screwball material: Starke and Clooney make for likable protagonists, Astin deliciously overacts with eye-rolling aplomb, Steve Lundquist pours on the smarm as Gangreen's slimy yuppie assistant Igor, J. Stephen Peace is a riot as Chad's gung-ho uncle Wilbur, and De Bello contributes a pleasingly smug turn as supremely obnoxious TV reporter Charles White. The plain cinematography by Stephen Kent Welch and Victor Lou gives this picture a properly chintzy look. The bouncy score by Rick Patterson and Neal Fox and the witty theme song both hit the groovy spot as well. Sure, this flick is incredibly dumb and ridiculous immaterial fluff, but the film's endearingly giddy'n'goofy sense of off-the-wall humor is impossible to either resist or dislike. An absolute gut-buster.

It's funny, sort of, that Return of the Killer Tomatoes actually lives up to (err, goes to the depths of) the original parody of schlock horror Z-grade movies it's coming from. It knows what it is in its bones, and still has a hell of a lot of fun getting to where it's going- which is almost nothing. I couldn't help but laugh through much of the flick though, especially after having seen the first one. After starting off the picture (and reminding me for a moment of Python's Holy Grail) with a whole other picture (unintentionally?) with girls taking off their tops on a beach, we get right into it full-throttle. John Astin, usually a very professional theater actor, plays Professor Gangreen in the other wild over-the-top horror comedy of 1988 (the other is Don Calfa in Chopper Chicks in Zombietown), and he's got a plan- create killer tomatoes again, but this time not REALLY tomatoes, but just regular tomatoes that can turn into killing machines Rambo style! But the professor also makes a woman (sexy Kara Mistal) for himself, and she strays away with her little fuzzy tomato, or FT, and meets Anthony Stark's Chad, a worker in a tomato-sauce-less pizza parlor with his friend Matt (George Clooney, yes, half a decade before ER if you can think back to them). Things then start to get a little wacky...Well, actually, wacky is such a little word to use. Return of the Killer Tomatoes, a movie that does not feature one real killing tomato (though potential quasi-killers they may be, and once in a while suicidal), is by and large one of the funniest horror-movie parody type sequels of the 80s. It takes itself about as seriously as you might expect, which is not at all. In fact the tongue is so placed firmly in cheek, it comes out the other end during scenes when writer/director John DiBello breaks the 'fourth wall' as the shooting of the movie (and massive, continuous, "elaborate" product placements are put in at every turn after a while, years before the gag was used in Wayne's World). I probably had bigger laughs during moments like these- with some random outbursts of ninjas fighting cowboys in a diner- than I did during the first Killer Tomatoes flick. While the original still does garner points for being as audacious with its stupidity and with a smaller budget (not that the sequel doesn't make fun of the budget at every other turn), the zany spirit of the first film remains strong here, and deliriously so at times. When you got the doctor's assistant of Igor looking like a wrestler, you get the idea.It's a wild and crazy ride, with a 20-something Clooney with a full head of dark hair and basically in a role that requires him just to act as himself to a much more condensed range (i.e. ladies man, which includes a great gag involving him getting girls to go on a date with him, though saying as if he's Rob Lowe). Its got plenty of stuff for fans of the first flick, including the Ewok of the series with FT, who has his own sort of merchandising going towards the end too. By the way, stay through till the end of the credits- it's not just because the director's mother said so!