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Name: Critters
Released: 1986-4-11
Cast: Dee Wallace Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde

Critters

PG-13
1h 26m
1986

50%

age 13+

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The battle began in a galaxy far away . . . but it's about to end in the Brown's backyard. It's man against a hoard of small, furry, voracious aliens--the Critters! When a band of hardened extraterrestrial criminals escape from a maximum-security prison asteroid and commanders an escape craft, the flesh-eating ETs unwittingly head to a small, unsuspecting planet--Earth--pursued by a pair of awesomely powerful, if unbelievably inept, bounty hunters. Now, it's the humans against the very hungry, man-eating aliens in a battle for the future of mankind!

Director:

Stephen Herek

Producer:

Rupert Harvey, Robert Shaye

Writer:

Stephen Herek, Dominic Muir

Cast:

Dee Wallace Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde, Don Opper, Billy Zane, Ethan Phillips, Terrence Mann, Jeremy Lawrence, Lin Shaye, Michael Lee Gogin, Art Frankel

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Critics Consensus: While Critters ekes out some fun from a game cast and screwball tone, the titular monsters fail to deliver the credible menace that makes a creature feature satisfying.

Reviews

Empire Magazine

Kim Newman

The lead monsters are sort of endearingly nasty and the movie has fun with its small town setting, but the film is perhaps a little too derivative to pass muster with the best of retro-chic [science fiction].

Critters resemble oversize hairballs and roll like tumbleweeds when prodded into action, the perfect menace for this irritatingly insipid and lightweight film which unfolds with plodding predictability and leaves few cliches unturned.

Gremlins does exist and Critters is simply a drive-in exploitation version of it, likable in a blue-chin, blue-collar way, but lacking the original's moral and magical qualities.

October 27, 2021

FULL REVIEW

London Evening Standard

Alexander Walker

It's so pitifully plain that the budget won't stretch to showing bigger Critters that the pathetic effect becomes laughable.

The picture provides a fair amount of knockabout fun, with some sprightly incidental jokes of a suitably unsubtle variety.

October 27, 2021

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Common Sense Media

age 13+

Common Sense Says

Low-budget '80s horror-comedy has violence, cursing.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the 1986 Critters is a low-budget knock-off of producer Steven Spielberg's 1984 hit horror comedy, Gremlins. Be aware that the violence and profanity of Gremlins made it one of the movies that prompted the creation of the PG-13 MPAA rating, and the same factors make Critters iffy for sensitive younger viewers. Voracious, man-eating space creatures take large bites out of people, exposing lots of flesh and blood. Alien bounty hunters blow things up, and there is some clothed making out and profanity, including "f--k," "s--t," and "goddamn." An alcoholic who claimed to be receiving signals from outer space is vindicated by the arrival of two large spaceships.