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Plot: In what appears to be a cross between Critters and The Towering Inferno, the residents of a shoddy L.A. apartment block are chased up to the roof by hoards of the eponymous hairy horrors.
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MCT:August 12, 2008
My favorite one out of the sequels. Ohh I thought DiCaprio was soo damn cute in this movie. But I haven't seen it in a while so I don't remember much about it. Pretty good for a Sci-Fi.
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MCT:May 5, 2008This is one of those movies that you half to get at least a half hour in before it gets interesting. DiCaprio's early role is also funny to watch.
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MCT:February 22, 2008
A young Leo DiCaprio and critters. The only reason this doesn't get more stars is that they don't eat DiCaprio - way back in 1991 we had a chance to stop Titanic and we didn't take it. Shame on you Critters. Shame on you.
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MCT:October 31, 2007There's something about 90s sequels to movies from the 80s that I love--Lethal Weapon 3, Beverly Hills Cop 3, this one...hmm, perhaps it's second sequels then, whichever--that sets them apart. It's not always positive (I feel those two buddy cop movies are the lesser entries in their respective series) but it's the same thing regardless. They're cleaner, slicker, more interested in comedy and less interested in drama, pathos, scares, gore and horror. It's kind of my time period since that's when I was a kid, but I tend to enjoy it anyway, despite the loss of those strong emotional elements that are often surprising in a way coming from movies of the monster movie or buddy cop movie. Oddly, I also feel there is still something for many directors and/or editors to learn from these movies. Are the characters strong and well-defined? No. Is the dialogue brilliant and crackling with wit? No, usually bad jokes and awful puns. But there's some kind of kinetic energy to these movies, that, despite their flaws, makes them come together in just the right way in the end anyway.
They also tend to deviate and add brighter, more colourful elemetnts--Lethal Weapon 3 added a butt-kicking love interest for Riggs, Beverly Hills Cop 3 is set in a theme park. Critters 3 is no exception--this time we finally leave the town of Grovers Bend, and the Brown family behind, now focusing on a tenement building that I believe is in New York City, but it doesn't matter too much. Clifford (John Calvin) is a widower and father of two, Annie (Aimee Brooks) and Johnny (Joseph & Christian Cousins) who is returning from vacation with them to their home in said building, home also to Rosalie (Diana Bellamy, sarcastic overweight comic relief as usual) and the Menges family (Bill Zuckert and Frances Bay--who I know as Mrs. Pickman in the classic Lovecraft-inspired John Carpenter film In the Mouth of Madness, but here is a much more benevolent "nice old lady"--though there's an action she performs which is amusingly similar to her most infamous one in that film, though with an exact opposite intention). Briggs (William Dennis Hunt) is a businessman trying to run the occupants out so that he can gain money from the building, using his lackey Frank (Geoffrey Blake, great fun as a snotty, arrogant punk of a "maintenance man") to try and scare or gross the occupants out. The movie's claim to fame is the actor playing Briggs' stepson Josh--none other than Leonardo DiCaprio in his film debut.
Performances are strong all around for what they are. Comic timing is excellent on all counts, and the emotions are believable, simplistic though they may be. DiCaprio is impressive enough as a rebellious young boy, doing pretty well for his age (though seeing the talent he has now, this IS less impressive). But, as always, the stars of this show are the Chiodo brothers' (their solo, er, trio, claim to fame being Killer Klowns from Outer Space) Critters and Critter effects, now even more complex in design than even the first sequel, with glowing red eyes and very expressive faces and limbs. The one that answers the phone for Frank when Briggs calls is as cute as the Crites can get, dancing and waving madly in amusement and frustration at the victim he cannot reach. Great setpieces like a POV shot of a Crite latched onto a broom and any of them latching onto a victim are what it's all about. They don't quite have any lines as funny as the ones in the original (they do speak, but of course not in English, so they're subtitled). They're hilariously inept as always, despite their clear relative intelligence, suffering massive indignities at the oblivious hands of the tenants until they finally reveal themselves (then only suffering less massive indignities to indulge their appetites).
Don Keith Opper returns--thanks to his brother Barry Opper's script--as Charlie McFadden, the former town drunk turned inter-stellar bounty hunter, who appears early on to warn Annie, Johnny and Josh of the threat they are soon to face, and later to help combat the Crite infestation.
For some reason, this film has a 3.0 on IMDb. I think that's pretty insanely harsh. It's not groundbreaking, it is a second sequel, and it is "just a b-movie," but it's smartly written enough, well-directed, well-edited and well acted. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes monster movies with a strong humorous element and great monster design and effects. I don't know who else there is like that, but that's always been a problem for me. Not a letdown at all--not even, in fact, like the other two movies I referenced a number of times. -
MCT:August 13, 2007
Interesting sequel - claim to fame is that this is Leonardo DiCaprio's first role. He's very good too! But sooooo young! Aw :)
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MCT:June 23, 2007
The strongest of the series in my view, the stars keep together and the fact that the critters are in a tighter location gives it a better feel. Leonardo DiCaprio in his first big screen outing does well little did he know what waits ahead.
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MCT:May 25, 2007
The only reason i watched this was to see Leonardo de crappio get eaten... which didn't happen...boo!
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MCT:April 8, 2007
This one I don't remember too much of it. But, keep an eye out for Leonardo DiCaprio as a pre-Titanic young boy, girls.
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MCT:March 30, 2007Not too bad of a sequel, this time the main hero is Charlie, from the first 2 "Critters" films, he is hunting down the left over Krites. Don Keith Opper reprises his role as Charlie and Terrence Mann as Ug.
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MCT:March 15, 2007
Kind of like the Towering Inferno, except with these little round fury things. Interesting to see a young Leonardo DiCaprio.
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MCT:March 13, 2007
Those ferocious fur ball from outer space are back for more, but little funny in an apartment building where people fight off them.
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MCT:December 18, 2006
Well, the stars are mainly for the Critters themselves in this one as they are funny and the limitations of the puppets aren't TOO obvious. More of an attempt to individualise the crites is made, with one burning its face with bleach and another drinking washing up liquid, little theft from the Gremlins franchise here.
The humans are pretty decent too. Leonardo DiCaprio makes his debue proving that his face has always been that small and he used to phone in it pre-Gilbert Grape as well. Charlie hasn't developed quite as far as I would have liked though and is a bit too bumbling for this stage in the franchise
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MCT:December 10, 2006Waste of TIME!! Very Weak movie, DO NOT WATCH, if you do end up watching it, side effects may include: Suicide, murder ramapages, road ramapage, any kinds of ways of harming yourself, and many others...
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MCT:October 18, 2006
BAD This film fails the QUADRILOY want to watch Critters the forst and second no more and why dint Leonardo DiCaprio die
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MCT:September 23, 2006
Was dissapointed that a young DiCraprio didn't come to a grissly end. This seemed to rely more on Gremlins rather then previous Critters films for ideas.
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MCT:September 5, 2006
The series starts going downhill and the fact that Charlie shows up is the only thing that saves it. GREAT acting by Leonardo DiCaprio although I would have liked to see a different fate for his character.
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