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Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Anders Hove

Just before bounty hunter Charile triggers his gun to destroy the last two Critter-eggs, he gets a message that it would be illegal to extinguish the race from the galaxy. He's sent a transporter wher...( read more  read more... )e he puts the eggs - unfortunately the transporter takes him with it and then gets lost in space. After 53 deep-frozen years, he's found by a private wreckage collector team under the unscrupulous Rick. On behalf of the mighty company Terracor they bring him to an empty space station - but Rick is curious and opens the box... so Charlie has work again, to keep the Critters from eating everybody.

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PG-13, 94 min.

Directed by: Rupert Harvey

Release Date: January 1, 1991

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DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003

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  • puffchunk
    November 30, 2007
    puffchunk
    For no reason the good guys in previous critters films are now the bad guys with no explanation.
  • FangsFirst
    October 31, 2007
    FangsFirst
    I always thought this was made years after the last sequel, as I felt a completely different tone from it--or at least recalled one--a lot darker and in some ways more "adult" than the previous films, even all the way back to the first. On re-watching, I don't think that was an i...( read more)naccurate impression to be left with. The film was written by the same team as the previous film (story by Barry Opper and Rupert Harvey, screenplay by David J. Schow) but has a completely different tone--perhaps thanks to Harvey being the director this time, and certainly thanks to the score by Peter Manning Robinson.

    Where before humour was a very big part of the Critters series, this time it takes a backseat to plot and horror. The body count, while perhaps not higher than the first two films, is certainly a greater percentage of the cast than either. Apparently, though, it was made back-to-back with Critters 3, within the same year, despite my previous beliefs, and the ending to that one was a cliffhanger--bounty hunter and ex-drunk Charlie McFadden (Don Keith Opper, as always) is stopped by the Intergalactic Council from destroying the eggs left in the burned out tenement building of the previous film because they are in fact the only eggs left in the universe. He is told to place them in a transport pod by his former partner and fellow bounty hunter Ug, which he complies with despite some argument, only to find himself trapped in the pod with them and frozen as it is shot into deep space.

    In the year 2045, a salvage crew picks up the pod and determines its origins as from the now defunct Intergalactic Council. They report it to the appropriate authorities and conglomerate Terracor requisitions it, against the wishes of Captain Rick (Anders Hove, famous to genre fans as the Subspecies series' Radu) and crewman Ethan (Paul Whitthorne). They were argued down by the rest of the crew--Al Bert (the great Brad Dourif, who many know as Grima Wormtongue these days, or Doc Cochran), Fran (Angela Bassett!) and Bernie (Eric DaRae) who wish instead to acquiesce and submit to the wishes of Terracor's representative--former bounty hunter Ug.

    This time we're met with a dark, brooding atmosphere, thanks in part to Robinson's dark, cold synthetic score, with those reverberating low-pitched tones that spread an ominous feeling throughout so many horror movies, a much more bitter, meaner, cynical, sarcastic sense of humour and deaths which are a lot more gruesome, vicious and a lot less darkly amusing. Characters fight amongst each other and backstab and are selfish and greedy. Having a cast like this was quite a boon to this film, Bassett, Hove and Dourif are all (unsurprisingly, of course) fantastic in their roles--Hove's Rick is completely self-serving, sleazy and creepy, Dourif's an excitable nerd (for once a good guy, too!) and Bassett is, well, she's Angela Bassett--she kicks ass and takes names, showing the strength that is apparently so innate in her. I recall it was vaguely disturbing when I first saw this, expecting more of the same 80's bemused horror and instead finding a sort of bleak, jaded, disillusioned film that actually brings in some themes and concepts that are familiar from, say, Alien (I shall say no more than that) and some slightly more developed characters--though, again, this could be thanks to the cast, but it feels like a very solid, tight film.

    I can't skip out without mentioning the natural relatives of "Critters in Space"--Jason X (which I haven't seen, and don't care to) and Hellraiser: Bloodline. I think Bloodline gets an unfair bad rep and carried off "Pinhead in Space" quite well, saving the series from the hideously banal depths of Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth (going back to my theories about third sequels/90s sequels to 80s movies, except Hellraiser was never about humour and should never have turned into a generic slasher or monster movie) but the real point is that this is the one out of all of those that actually makes sense. The Crites were always aliens, and alien bounty hunters were involved from the beginning. It was only natural to see them in their natural element at some point, and it was great to finally have an Alien-style approach to them that they deserve, to make them far more threatening than previously. An isolated spaceship and space station are a completely different story for dealing with them than a farmhouse or even an apartment building. There is nowhere possible to escape to, and that really helps the tension and fear for once.

    As per usual, nastily low scores on places like IMDb, which is why I refuse to even acknowledge them for the purposes of rating genre flicks. If you dug the others, stick it out and catch this one, it's quite probably the best sequel to the great original.
  • Godless
    May 18, 2006
    Godless
    I'm glad the final installment ended in disater.
  • djkynky1
    September 24, 2009
    djkynky1
    I Love the Critters movies but this is the worst of the bunch, has some neat little set pieces, but that's all there is to this.
  • ElCochran90
    September 14, 2009
    ElCochran90
    AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    23/100
  • MrOrange8590
    September 11, 2009
    MrOrange8590
    im pretty sure Brad Dourif is still trying hard to not be known as "the guy from critters 4" by appearing in such contemporary classics as "drop dead sexy" and "National Lampoons Lucky virgins 8"
  • FutureMrsNeeson
    August 19, 2009
    FutureMrsNeeson
    Let me know when they make a "Critters 99". :-O
  • Hallez
    July 31, 2009
    Hallez
    ok so it follows on from where Critters 3 left off but does anyone notice the similarities between this film and Alien Ressurection?
  • CallumSanderson
    April 1, 2009
    CallumSanderson
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    REVIEW SOON!

    NOTE: I OWN THIS ON DVD
  • bringbackmrdirp
    January 1, 2009
    bringbackmrdirp
    Suprising end to the Critters tetralogy. Very dark and grown up for a critters movie with an Aliens and maybe star wars touch. They wear darth fader styled helmets.

    With references to technocratic bureacracy and cooperate greed and even some slight nudity ( ass and sideboob )

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