Critters: Attack! [DVD] [2017]

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As a lifelong fan of the Critters franchise, even going as far as to say it was my favourite horror series of the 1980s, the news of a brand new movie filled me with equal part joy and dread. Obviously, it was exciting for me to see the Krites return to Earth to cause bloody chaos all over again, but I was also hyper-aware that more often than not modern reboots of old school horrors don’t always find their mark.Critters Attack! was released on July 13th, 2019, and advance screenings by friends did not come with favourable reviews. Most of them hated it, calling it one of the worst movies they had ever seen. Others described it as being bad “Even for a Critters movie”. But I wanted to know for myself. I’ve seen the Critters movies a thousand times, so there was no way I was going to pass up on this one, even if it really was an abomination.The movie itself is set in modern-day small-town America. For no obvious reason, the infamous Krites return to Earth for another course of human flesh, after being absent from our screens – and our universe – for nearly 3 decades. This time though, they unwittingly bring with them a benevolent female “Queen Krite” who has made it her mission to put an end to her insubordinate subjects reign of terror.With the help of some young kids who are scarily desensitized to the ultra-violence going on around them, the Queen – who for reasons unknown is named Bianca – defies her Gizmo-like cuteness to call time on the all-you-can-eat man-sized buffet, and save Earth once and for all.Now let me be clear. Critters Attack! is not a good movie. But it is lots of fun. It’s like the staff of 1990s Nickelodeon got their hands on the franchise and made their own movie. In fact, if it wasn’t for the blood and occasional swearing it could probably run at tea time and no one would really bat an eyelid.The acting isn’t horrible, the young cast doesn’t make you want to swallow your own head, and there are enough laughs and surprises to keep you entertained. The real triumph though is the special FX, which have that authentic early-Critters movie feel, especially when the little bastards combine and turn themselves into a huge Temple of Doom-style boulder of teeth, running down anyone that stands in their way and leaving nothing but bones in their wake.Perhaps most disappointing though is that this is not truly a film for the original fans. Yes, there is the return of original cast member Dee Wallace, but you never actually know if she’s reprising her Helen Brown role from the first film, or if she’s just there for a cheap pop. Her character “Aunty Dee” has an obvious past with the Krites but this is never explained and for anyone new to the franchise it doesn’t make much sense for this older lady to be wandering around calling herself a bounty hunter.Bounty Hunter’s were a recurring theme of the first 4 movies, and quite honestly were a highlight of the franchise. Why then would you not even mention Ug or Charlie, or have new hunters emerge from the stars to continue the hunt for the intergalactic fugitive monsters? Fans love the lore behind their favourite movies, so to totally abandon it was a foolish move for the filmmakers – let’s hope if there’s a sequel they don’t make the same mistake againThere will be plenty of old-school fans who turn Critters Attack! off after 10 minutes, but that would be a mistake. It’s a funny little stand-alone horror that reintroduces some of the very nastiest villains from the decade in which horror was truly at its peak. This is not the Critters we grew up with but we’re OK with that. We just hope that this is simply the entrée and the main course will be a much more familiar flavour.

Based on reviews on here, a few enjoyed this movie. A few didn't.It strikes me as that sort of a movie. I quite enjoyed it. It may not have caught the nostalgic charm of the earlier movies, especially the first two, but I found it watchable. Probably more enjoyable than the fourth one.If you're a fan of the original movies, it's worth a watch. It's one where you have to turn your brain off, and some may find doesn't live up to the memories of the originals. But hey. Give it a go. It's The Critters.

This pretty much follows the standardised plot of a Critters movie - they land. They eat. They multiple and they terrorise a small town you’ve never even heard of, and our heroes (whoever’s left) somehow ‘save the day’.Another bargain basement indie flick, which ticks all my boxes, so if you’re a Critters fan, you’ll love it...

For a franchise that has been dormant since 1991 no one was expecting much from Critters: Attack! Apart from the appalling eight-episode streaming series that run at ten minutes each there has been nothing from the Critters franchise for a very long time, they barely got released on Blu-ray. Warner/New Line seem to be somewhat keen to keep it alive as a TV movie/DVD franchise and while Critters Attack (the colon and exclamation point in the title are problematic, so I'm missing them out from now on) is mildly enjoyable it doesn't do much other than keep the engine running and build new brand awareness. The original Critters was the best of the Gremlins rip-offs, and if they can turn it into a similar cash cow in the form of toys and merchandise there might be more of these to come, which is likely why the Gremlins textures are amped up for this sequel.When a delivery boy is dragged off into the night by Krites after their ship lands in the wilderness lonely teenager Drea and her younger brother Philip find themselves in the middle of a new Krite invasion. Before the carnage begins they agree to babysit for a college professor and take the kids for a walk in the forest. I was a little confused as to the ages of these characters though. The girl being babysat seems to be 15, with the body of an 11-year-old, and the face of a woman in her late 20s. She might even be older than the actor playing Philip. It's so odd. The boy playing her younger brother is supposed to be aged 9 but has a voice that broke years ago.In the forest they discover the frightened "Bianca" - an injured "good" Krite who has come to Earth to stop the bad Krites, meanwhile a bounty hunter called Aunt Dee (Dee Wallace Stone, kinda but kinda not reprising her role from the first film) picks up the signal of the landing Krite ship and begins her own hunt with, what appears to be, an updated Ghostbusters PKE meter.There's a lot of components here and the movie really ought to cut back and forth between them as a consistent pace but there's just no energy to it. There are plot threads that just stop with no conclusion. The original Critters kept throwing wildly imaginative new developments at us every five to ten minutes, getting the series off to a bizarre but highly charged start. By comparison, Critters Attack is a bit more downbeat and subdued. There's no atmosphere to the photography or set pieces at all, the Deus Ex-inspired score is totally at odds with whatever tone they were going for. It would have been better to bring back David Newman to bring the series score full circle and connect it to its roots more. I don't expect them to bring back Leo, but Newman might have been game.It seems that the soul of Critters is missing here. The original movie had a theme of quiet Americana being disrupted by wild intergalactic anarchy. Critters Attack, being shot in South Africa, feels and looks bland, despite quite a few stunning locations being featured. There's no hometown heart, and it's a million miles from Grover's Bend, Kansas. Despite the swift 89-minute running times it's the longest movie in the series, and the first to be rated R, while the others were rather lenient PG-13s.The creature effects are fun, and the movie is infrequently gore just about enough to make it passable. In the hands of a better director and with more imaginatative photography this could have been a solid made-for-TV movie. As it is, it's just for hardcore fans, and if Warner were expecting this to reinvigore the series they might regret the abrupt ending that hints are more to come. A stronger effort needs to be made next time.As a footnote, I have to say that the excuse given by Dee Wallace that her character is "Aunt Dee" instead of "Helen Brown" because of "rights issues" doesn't make sense. Domonic Muir wrote the original screenplay for the first Critters. He died in 2010. Warner owns the rights to Critters. Not the Muir estate. This reeks of a cover-up. Very strange.The Blu-ray looks good in 1.78:1 1080p, as good as the bland digital photography is ever likely to be that is. The DTS HD-MA 5.1 sound is also rather good. A few extras are included.

This product was perfect

A very well made movie

Ich hatte gemischte Gefühle beim Kauf des Filmes. Ich bin Critters-Fan seit dem ersten Teil und mein ganzes Leben begleiteten mich die kleinen Monster, die ich für mich persönlich sogar auf einer höheren Stufe als die Gremlins positioniere.Beim neuen Film war es schwierig, plötzlich war er da. Aber keine Deutsche Version. Ich gucke aber lieber Filme in meiner Sprache. Ich wartete und wartete. Bis ich es aufgab, auf eine deutsche Version zu hoffen, zu meinem Vorteil, konnte ich den Film nach 3 Jahren nun zu einem Schnäppchenpreis ergattern. Zugeschlagen. Mit der Familie vor den TV gesetzt und gemischte Erwartungen.Im Internet wurde der Film von vielen zerrissen.Wird er wirklich so schlecht sein? Oder ist es dieses Internet Phänomen, nach jahrelangem FB Like Verhältnissen, hat sich eine Generation der DIslikers aufgebaut und es wird jedes Remake und jeder Versuch oft schlecht geredet, als sei es ein stupider Trend.87 Minuten später bin ich als alter Critters Fan dankbar, dass sich ein paar so junge Künstler mit wirklich knappen Budget einen Film zauberten, der den originalen definitiv gerecht werden.-Ja, er ist etwas schlechter!-Nein, er ist nicht schlecht!Wenn man sich ansieht wie die Darsteller zu teils in ihrer ersten Rolle, mit junger Liebe zu ihrem Projekt, alles geben, da habe ich Respekt. Die Ideen im Film sind auch nicht schlecht. Der Mother Critter, ist eine neue frische Idee, die etwas neue Tiefe in das Critters Universum bringt. Ich bin zwar nicht mit allen Abläufen im Film abgeholt worden, doch nach all den Rezessionen, muss ich sagen, habe ich mir den Film richtig schlecht vorgestellt. Nun muss ich überlegen, ob all diese Crittiger, Critters 1-4 überhaupt je gesehen haben. Der Film ist reine Handarbeit. Kein CGI. Puppenspiel vom Feinsten. Mit viel weniger Geld, im Verhältnis zu den alten. Mein Fazit: Ich liebe ihn, wie all die anderen Teile. :)Danke an all die Darsteller und Leute am Set, dass Sie mir einmal meine Kindheit zurückholen konnten. Danke

Para los fans coleccionistas de España de esta saga, sin entrar en sí la peli es buena o mala.Informaros que aunque en la caratula no lo especifica, he comprobado que tiene español neutro (latino) y los extras están subtitulados en español.Si solo te falta esta y te jode no tenerla y el acento te da un poco igual...Adelante.

Queria tener esta pelicula ya que tengo las 4 peliculas de la saga y esta me parecio entretenida y con estos monstuitos.

alles tip top!

Hätte ich nur mal 2 Sekunden in die Rezessionen gesehen, hätte ich gemerkt das der Film auf Englisch ist. Der Film ist ein Mega Remake der Originalen, natürlich sehr trashig. Aber das erwartet man bei den Critters. Sind nach wie vor Puppen, aber Zeitgemäß.Nur eben Englische Tonspur oder Spanisch. Dies sieht man auch in der Produktbeschreibung, wenn man genau liest. Viel kreativen Dialog gibt eh nicht, jeder der Englisch leichenhaft versteht wird klar kommen. Dennoch schade, auch kein Deutscher Untertitel.Ich würde dem Film 5 Sterne geben, weil ich Fan bin, nur die Tonspur versaut das ganze.