The past two years or so have seen a mainstreaming of what can charitably be called the Troma aesthetic: Troma-influenced films like The Big Hit and TV shows like South Park have found commercial success with spiffed-up, bigger-budget, more clever versions of the gleefully profane, cheap, tasteless product Troma Entertainment has been pumping out for the last 20 years or so. But Troma itself has avoided any sort of artistic evolution. There's a strange sort of homogeneity that runs through the studio's films from the last several decades. No matter where or when they were filmed, for some peculiar reason most of them look and feel like they were shot in the same abandoned New Jersey mall circa 1974. Though it was made in 1991 and released just recently on home video, Viewer Discretion Advised feels stuck in some sort of alternate universe where it's Bicentennial time forever and everyone resembles unsuccessful contestants on The Gong Show. A Troma-fied series of loosely related skits in the tradition of the far-superior Kentucky Fried Movie, Viewer Discretion Advised is standard Troma product: cheap, tacky, tasteless, sporadically amusing, and consistently amateurish. Like most collections of skits, it's wildly uneven, but there are several discernible high points, chief among them a funny slasher-film parody that predates Scream by several years, and a game-show sketch that wrings a few laughs out of a familiar satirical target. And while there are more than a few bits that haven't aged particularly well—like a drug-ad parody that would have been out-of-date roughly 15 minutes after the original ads aired—Viewer Discretion Advised should nevertheless please Troma buffs while mildly amusing everyone else.