Review of Critters (1986) by Emily A — 22 Aug 2009

I could barely stay awake during this movie, it was so underwhelming. I liked the idea of anchoring an alien invasion movie on a family in an isolated farm house, and I liked the Critters character design.

I hated however the Critters' puppetry, and the actual execution of the family idea: they were all horrible and annoying human beings, the kind you hope get killed in movies like this. I don't know.

Perhaps I was expecting too much. It was my understanding that hunting Critters comes with one caveat: you can't kill them because, since thier planet was destroyed, they are an endangered species.

I was disappointed that this didn't happen in the film, but I did like the bit about them being escapees from an interstellar prison transport ship. But there was very very little else I liked about this movie.

Plaaaaah.