Each
Critters movie is exponentially harder to watch than the last, but at least they keep it interesting by making each entry uniquely
uncomfortable!
Critters
3
This installment in the series starts off with a flashback-mashup-preview of the first two movies before throwing down the goofy gauntlet and never looking back.
I venture to say we've never seen a movie as goofy as this one,
and that's saying something...
The
plot unfolds something like this: A midwestern family is
at the tail end of their RV vacation when they get a flat tire. While
dad repairs the tire Krite eggs make their way onto the camper, and
the kids happen upon Charlie, a stranger who's brimming with ominous warnings who shares some of those warnings with them. Once
the RV tire is fixed the family returns home, unwittingly bringing the
Crite eggs back with them. In short order Critters infest their
apartment building and the epic goof-fest begins! Will Charlie
make it the city to save them? Will the Krites over run the city?
Will the dad get a job at the phone company?!? Will the goofiness
ever end?!?!?
Things
to watch for: Some stronger than
usual female characters (a mainstay for Critters
movies), and awkward teenage dialogue at every single opportunity!
Yep,
that's: Leonardo DiCaprio.
That
lady moments with: Frances Bay (Happy Gilmore, Blue Velvet) and Diana Bellamy (one or two episodes of every tv show in the 80s). Between these two
ladies lies more than 250 acting credits. If you watched any amount of television between 1977 and 2011, you'll likely recognize them both.
Our
rating: Better with a loud group.
Specs
(our copy):
Format: VHS
Previews: Freddy’s Dead
Tag line: “You are what
they eat.”
Choice line from the
synopsis: “They're orphaned, they're hungry, they're multiplying
and they're CRITTERS....”
VHS release company: New
Line Home Video
Running time: 86 min
VHS release: 1991
Critters
4
The polar opposite in tone, this
installment was made in a goofiness vacuum, making it the least fun
of the series by far. This one picks up exactly where the last film left off.
The
plot unfolds something like this: Charlie has to preserve the
universe's last two Krite eggs in a pod programed to jettison into
space. Charlie manages get himself into the pod with the eggs and together they're cryogenic frozen and jettison into space. Fifty-three years later, a space
salvage crew discovers the pod floating through space. They agree to return the pod to it's owners for a
hefty reward, until the captain decided to crack open the pod!
Charlie and the Krites are released and duke it out one last time, all while floating through space.
Who
steals the show: Brad Dorrif and Angela Basset.
They are both so much better than the material they're working with.
Our
rating: Hard to watch on many levels.
Specs
(our copy):
Format: VHS
Previews: Excessive
Force, Year of the Comet, The Player
Tag line: “In space,
they love to hear you scream!”
Choice line from the
synopsis: “This time they're hungry to conquer the galaxy, with
an appetite for mankind that's out of this world.”
VHS release company: New
Line Home Video
Running time: 94 min
VHS release: 1992
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