Furry creatures rolled up into balls comes from outer space and lands on a farm in a mid-western town on earth and starts eating away at everything. After them comes two bounty hunters, them also from another planet, following the Critters in order to hunt them down and destroy them. The Critters attack the farm house and trapping the people who lives there inside.
Critters is a pretty cool 80's movie, one could say it's a Gremlins clone as it features similar creatures. I would pick Gremlins any day over Critters but it's still a pretty good movie to watch or at least it's entertaining.
I remember seeing this when not being very old and liking it a lot, seeing it nowadays it's not very good but it's nice to get nostalgic once in a while.
This movie really scream 80's and is not as good as a lot of other somewhat similar 80's movies. It's ok to watch though and I guess entertaining on some levels. The actual Critters are only half as cool as the Gremlins so that's a little bummer, and you're kinda bound to compare the two movies when watching this, it's hard not to.
Problem here is that while the Critters are supposed to be really mean, they kinda just end up being somewhat cute since we never get to see any real carnage or blood for the matter.
There are some sequels to it, three more if I'm not mistaken, but they are all kinda the same, and if you gonna watch any of them this one would be it and after that you can skip the rest.
Like I said earlier, it's nostalgic to some people and therefore you wanna watch it again, but if you never seen it you might as well just leave it be.
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MOVIE YEAR: 1986
DIRECTOR: Stephen Herek
WRITING CREDITS: Stephen Herek, Domonic Muir
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
CAST: Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 82 min
RATING: 5/10
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