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Killer Tomatoes Eat France! (1992)

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After escaping from jail, Professor Gangreen plots to take over France and eventually the world, by having his hapless assistant impersonate Louis XVII. --IMDb
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Review by Crispy
Added: August 8, 2009
After an amazingly strong beginning, The Killer Tomatoes franchise hit a brick wall with its third installment. While Killer Tomatoes Eat France is certainly better than that was, it's still not that great, let alone returning to the bar set by the first two.

So, in our fourth and final entry, Dr. Gangreen starts off in a French prison for some reason, preparing to be executed via guillotine for his horrible crimes against humanity. At the last minute, however, he's broken out by his three tomato henchmen, and escapes back to a giant castle Igor has procured. Before he was sprung, Gangreen stole a book from the prison library that contains a prophecy predicting the return of the French monarchy. And as luck would have it, the accompanying illustration of the new king is the spitting image of Igor. With a little tomato help, he plans on forcing the prophecy to come true, putting his nephew on the throne, and using his new-found control over France to take over the world. Clearly he knew little of France's infamous military prowess, but I digress. After his early attempts at creating additional killer tomatoes fail, Gangreen realizes he needs to find Fuzzy Tomato and extract the gene that makes the fruit sentient. Meanwhile, a young man is backpacking through Paris when he meets a beautiful French girl with self esteem issues. Trying to impress her, he tells her he is famous movie star Michael J. Fox. Along the way he gets caught up in Gangreen's plan, and the couple take it upon themselves to make sure his evil plans don't come to fruition. Throw in a large handful of nonsensical gags, take a few bricks out of the fourth wall, and we have ourselves a Killer Tomatoes sequel.

Here's three very important things you must know about France. 1) They talk with an outrageous accent. 2) Marie is a common woman's name. 3) The people of France are big fans of cigarettes and those big loafs of bread. I know these facts because I just watched a movie that spent ninety minutes making those three jokes over and over again. I have no trouble with running gags, but this was just ridiculous. Fortunately, the other gags were a bit better, if not very memorable. The problem is that by this point in the series, we've seen what they have to offer. Breaking the fourth wall is personally one of my favorite gags, but they've over done it. Same with the nonsensical gags; for example, as a defense to keep our hero from climbing the steps to save his lady, they drop banana peels all over the place. We've seen this type of humor all over the series before, and better executed as well. The whole thing just seemed tired at this point.

Also, for a Killer Tomatoes movies, there was a noticeable lack of Killer Tomatoes featured. Basically, we're reduced to the three henchmen tomatoes, who just kind of bounce around being goofy for their portion of screen time, which wasn't much to start with. Instead, most of our movie experience is spent watching Marie and "Michael's" relationship blossom in a decidedly slapstick style. Sure, it had some high points here and there, but damn it, we're here to see some tomatoes. The best scene we get is the three putting on a rock concert. It IS a nice scene, but that's just one scene out of a full-length feature film.

Again, it's leagues better than the last entry, so if you absolutely need to have some more killer 'maters, this one will suit you much better than part three. Still, it's certainly not a great flick (great being a relative term here of course), especially after the first two entries, and warrants a mere 4/10 from yours truly. However, if you're truly jonesing for more, a remake is seemingly right around the corner starring Bruce Campbell (CHEERS) and Jim Carrey (JEERS).
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