Review of Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) by Zach D — 23 Mar 2012

We're heading back to Perfection, Nevada. That's right another Tremors movie....and it's the weakest in the series. The opening scene with Burt Gummer (Badass of the day, just saying) was promising enough, but the rest of the movie just goes downhill.

Since it's back to Perfection in this one it means some characters/actors from the first Tremors movie. Ariana Richards returns as a now teenage Mindy and Tony Genaro reprises his role as Miguel. (Ironically, he looks as if he hasn't aged a day.

) Shawn Christian plays a complete douchebag con artist trying to make money off the sudden popularity of the Graboids and Susan Chuang plays....an asian lady with almost no personality. So the Graboids are back in Perfection and Burt and his friends are trying to track down the already evolved ones.

However, they evolve into another creature and it's made of CGI. Why? Puppetry worked just fine in the first two movies, so why resort to an unnecessary usage of CGI? I just prefer animatronics because when you're actually filming something that's physically in front of the camera, it makes for more charm to the creative process.

The script for this film seemed kind of weak too. Something about it felt lazy. In the end, the characters weren't as fun to watch, the CGI bugged me, the writing felt choppy and while it had some laughs and creatvity, it didn't even hold a candle to Tremors.