Tremors 3: Back to Perfection

Plot synopsis:
Adventurer Burt Gummer returns to his hometown of Perfection, Nevada, after a hunt for Shriekers in Argentina. Since the original Graboid attacks, the town's preventative equipment for tracking Graboid activities has fallen into disrepair due to the neglect of native residents Miguel, Nancy Sterngood, and her daughter Mindy. Walter Chang's market has been taken over by his niece Jodi, and the town has gained a new resident, Jack, who creates mock-attack tours for visiting tourists. One afternoon, during one of Jack's tours, his assistant Buford is eaten by an actual Graboid. Jack, Mindy, and Jack's customers manage to escape to warn the town, and Burt determines there are three Graboids in the area.
The residents begin to take action to kill the Graboids, but they are stopped by government agents Charlie Rusk and Frank Statler and a paleontologist, Dr. Andrew Merliss who claim the Graboids are an endangered species, preventing the humans from hunting them. Jack manages to reach an agreement with the agents that if they capture one live Graboid, Burt and the residents will be allowed to kill the remaining two. Burt grudgingly agrees, and he and Jack set out to trap a Graboid while the agents go after another out of their own accord. Melvin Plugg, a fellow survivor from the original attacks, approaches Burt in the hopes of buying his land and developing it into a town. After Burt refuses, a Graboid attacks and swallows him whole. Jack lures the Graboid to Burt's home, having it fatally collide with the underground concrete barriers surrounding the building. He then uses a chainsaw to free Burt from its belly.
Burt, Jack, Jodi, and Miguel later find the badly wounded Merliss; he explains that he and the government agents were ambushed by Shriekers from the Graboid they were chasing, before dying. While tracking the Shriekers, an albino Graboid—later named El Blanco, meaning "The White One" in Spanish—traps them on rocks for the night. After drawing El Blanco away, they find that the Shriekers have molted their skin, becoming winged creatures capable of jet-propelled flight. Miguel is killed by the creature, which then crashes on a metal fence, killing itself. Burt realizes that chemicals in their stomachs react explosively, enabling their flight. Finding them able to carry Graboid eggs, they surmise that they evolved to spread them through flight. Jodi dubs the new species Ass-Blasters. Meanwhile, Nancy and Mindy are attacked by an Ass-Blaster in town and hide in a freezer.
Using a mattress as cover from the Ass-Blasters' infrared vision, the group gets to Burt's house, but are forced to flee when an Ass-Blaster attempts to break in. To keep it from multiplying like its predecessors, Burt rigs his house and his stash of MREs to explode, killing it, however it is only after that they learn Ass-Blasters do not multiply but fall asleep after eating. The group flees to a junkyard, where they build a potato gun from everyday objects to ignite the combustible materials in the Ass-Blasters' stomachs. After they kill four, Burt is attacked by El Blanco and pinned down. Realizing that Burt's ultrasonic watch is repeatedly drawing El Blanco to them, Jack takes it and sticks it to the final Ass-Blaster. El Blanco devours it, saving Burt and Jodi's lives in the process.
In the aftermath, Nancy manages to sell a captive Ass-Blaster, while Jack pursues a romantic relationship with Jodi, depressing Mindy who had a crush on him. Meanwhile, Melvin tries again to approach Burt about selling his land, but Burt informs him that since El Blanco is an endangered species and illegal to hunt—and formed a mutual unspoken friendship with Burt—the residents have decided to take precautions in order to live safely alongside it, thus turning Perfection into a federally protected Graboid reserve and barring Melvin from developing a town. Burt then leaves Melvin standing on a rock with El Blanco circling below.

Tags: psychedelic, entertaining

Review:
The movie isn't anything great, but it's got some cool stuff in it.I thought it was funny that they managed to work in a mention of just about every character from the first film as they could, and if they didn't mention them, they actually showed them in the film.
In the third installment of the Tremors series, survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) returns to the desert town of Perfection, Nevada, to find that the subterranean terrors are back and wreaking havoc once more.
This time the beasts evolve a stage further: from the 'Shrieker' (seen in Tremors 2), they transform into flying creatures, nicknamed 'Ass-blasters', because of the unusual manner in which they propel themselves into the air.Tremors 3 is another fun dose of B-movie monster mayhem, albeit one slightly marred by the notable absence of the main stars of the first movie (Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward) and the inclusion of some rather ropey CGI effects.Bacon and Ward may be missing, but several of the supporting characters from the first Tremors film make a welcome comeback: Mindy Sterngood (Ariana Richards, who is all grown up now and looking rather foxy!), Nancy Sterngood (Charlotte Stewart), Miguel (Tony Genaro), Melvin Plug (Robert Jayne) and, of course, good old Burt, loaded to the nines with firepower.The script won't win any awards, but fans of the Tremors series don't expect Shakespearethey want 'Graboid' action, and 'Graboid' action is what they get!
An exciting showdown in a junkyard between the 'blasters and three of the Perfection residents is the highlight of the film.This episode definitely has enough laughs, monster action and gloopy effects to keep fans of the series happy.
Michael Gross returns as Burt, who in turn returns to Perfection to find it a tourist haven of Graboid fans.
The formula remains the same, with Burt the paranoid saviour of Perfection getting some good lines, while the return of characters from the first film is a splendid bonus for the fans.
After returning home to Perfection Burt must deal with new graboids, new shriekers and another metamorphosis...The shriekers turn into Ass-Blasters, flying creatures with rocket propelled farts.
Turns out he's okay in the end.Fred Ward is definitely missed tho his abscence is explained (Earl and Grady went to make a Graboid amusement park) but Michael Gross is simply irreplaceable as the eccentric and paranoid Burt Gummer.
So the production team for Tremors 3 took things back to the small, quirky town of Perfection, Nevada, in the hopes of getting back the interaction that made the original such a classic.In all honesty, this was a smart move, although it is not a hundred percent successful.
The effects were just as good, it had two major characters returning, and the script was a lot of fun and had a few suprises.When I heard that there was going to be a Tremors 3, I was kind of excited but a little concerned too.
In Perfection Valley, Nevada, Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) is paranoid with the Graboids and their evolution Shriekers.
When the deadly worms return to the town, Burt is forced to team-up with Jack and the trader Jodi Chang (Susan Chuang) to fight back and save their lives."Tremors 3: Back to Perfection" is a lame sequel straight to video of the franchise.
Michael Gross returns for the role of Burt Gummer, and so does some of the original cast including Ariana Richards, Tony Genero, Robert Jayne and Charlotte Stewart as the townies of Perfection, which has become famous all over the world as habitat of the giant graboids.
The creatures look just like a couple of cartoons on a real background.Anyway, it's not one of those bad sequels, "Tremors 3: Back to Perfection" is still fun, even for the young viewers.TV movie rating: *** out of 5..
Each film is little more than pure fun for fans of monster and suspense films, but with TREMORS III, the whole package is nearly complete.There are many of the characters from the first film and, of course, Burt Gummer...but unlike any other sequel I have seen to date, this one actually builds from the continuity of all the other films, from the books being sold to the bottle of booze in the wall to the closing scene, and the tone of the film is absolutely pure to the originals...something that can be said of only a very few sequels.I would *strongly* recommend screenwriters, persons who adapt from prior works, directors and producers to see these films as a guide on "how to do it right".I agree with another reviewer...it was a big mistake not to have released this to theatre.
The fundamental particularities the 'tremors' series are the following: A lonely place called Perfection where live a misfit group with usual actors, Charlotte Stewart, Ariana Richards, Tony Genaro,among others; the people confronting the amazing Graboids into the houses or desert; and the usual presence of the sympathetic Burt Gummer-Michel Gross who using diverse weapons and intelligence battles the horrific predators.
Third Tremors movie takes us back to the small Nevada town of Perfection where local resident and adventurer Burt Grummer returns after traveling abroad and killing carnivorous worms called "Graboids" (introduced in the first movie) and their offspring "Shriekers" (introduced in the second movie) to life in his home town and must deal with some crooked land developers, a thrill-seeking guy named Jack Sawyer looking for wealth in this potential tourist town, and eventually dealing with a new strain of Graboid worms that metamorph into their second Shrieker phase, and whom unexpectedly morph into their third stage for another harrowing battle against Burt and Jack in the desert surrounding the town.
Michael Gross is still good as gun-ho burt gummer and the new supporting cast (As well as some familiar faces from the first tremors film) all give 150%.
Michael Gross returns as survivalist Burt Gummer, and boy does he do it in a big way,, in the opening scene,, he is in a tank with a 50 mm gun on the turret killing shriekers..
The film is about another Tremors attack in Perfection,and paranoid Burt Gummer wants to kill them all.
Third movie in the Tremors series returns back to the town that started it all: Perfection, Nevada.
This is a mostly enjoyable monster flick but not as good as the second movie and not even on the same planet as the highly entertaining first Tremors.
Michael Gross is back as Burt Gummer(the only returning cast member) who returns to his hometown of Perfection Nevada(from the first film) after more "graboids" surface, only this time, they undergo a further metamorphosis enabling them to fly!
Burt is now a seasoned monster hunter, and leads a new group of people in the perpetual battle against this threat.Third film doesn't have the charm of the first two, despite Michael Gross's good performance, he is the only memorable thing about it, further hampered by silly and crude humor resulting from the new type of "graboids" that have evolved.
This new Tremors is just as much fun to watch as the first two, although much sillier and even more unbelievable than underground man-eating worms, and their offspring the "shriekers." If you only thought the first two movies were "ok" then don't even bother with this one.
One of the things I liked most about Tremors 3 was the return of most of the original cast from the first movie, most of which didn't appear in the second.
In Argentina, munitions master Michael Gross (as Burt Gummer) blows away a herd of second stage "Graboids" - if you've been watching the "Tremors" films, you'll know these critters are called "Shriekers".
I guess some people didn't like this movie because ya it didn't have the have to stay off the ground excitement but if they had put the cant be seen or cant be heard together there's a great film.
I have to say the movie is quite different returns to the old town we know called perfection and see the people from the first witch i thought was good.
One of the worst movies ever the characters are such bad actors they all give me a bad gut pain all the c.g fx were all done a 1987 computer only 2 people got killed in this ass of a film one was eaten and the other a good actor from the first Tremors movie fall down a hill oh there were three other people FBI or something were killed when the Graboids turn into the Shrieker but they were to damn cheap to show it they just said they were deadTremors 1 gold Tremors 2 art tremors 3 a two dollar high school moviebut no matter how bad this movie gets every time I watch it, it is still better than Lord Of The Rings 2.
In a way, other than "Stumpy" in the first Tremors movie, we have a creature with personality.Well, great film overall, can't wait for the next one, hope to see more "El Blanco" next time.
In the world of cult-classics, there are few films that come close to matching the high quality and even higher entertainment value of the 1990 release "Tremors." A creature-feature like no other, that original movie thrilled audiences with a keen and clever combination of old-fashioned creeps and a surprising sense of humor as it told the tale of massive underground worms that devour hapless victims in a small desert community.
it's just not quite up to the standard set by previous installments.It's been a couple years and good-old paranoid survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) is still out there hunting Graboids and Shriekers for pay.
Expert Graboid killer Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) returns to the tiny desert community of Perfection after some time away.
The creature designs are still impressive, but some people will take issue with the copious use of CGI.Gross got boosted to star of the franchise after the departure of both Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, and he certainly has made Burt Gummer a very entertaining character.
Sure, there are some funny moments in the film, but not many.This movie is a tremors sequel, but I'm sorry to say, very average.5/10, let down..
But if you're a fan of the Tremors series, remember how fun and funny the first film was, and can keep yourself in that mind-set, then you'll enjoy this one.It's a bit slow to get started, but when they introduce the latest evolutionary phase of the graboids, the film moves into overdrive, with action and comedy galore.Sadly, the script has a few plot holes and the acting is merely so-so, so it's only a 6/10 in my book, but on a boring evening when there's nothing decent on, it's a great alternative to re-runs..
Michael Gross returns for the third time as Burt Gummer, expert 'Graboid' fighter.
He now returns to his home town to find that the monster worms are now back and spawning (another) new strain of their lifecycle.Now, Tremors 3 will never be perfect and definitely not a patch on the original, but, for a sequel, it is fun.
i guess this installment of the Tremors series is not bad.it wasn't really funny,but it was amusing.there's a running joke involving Burt Gummer(Michael Gross)that's funny the first time,and maybe the second.but after that,not so much.incidentally,Gross is the only major actor left from the original movie.his character is really treated as a buffoon here.i'm not sure if that's good or bad,but it is a change from the first two movies.i didn't think the special effects were all that special.in fact,i found them kinda cheesy.as for the movie itself,it's not something i would actively look for,but if you have nothing else to do on a lazy day,this will pass the time for you,or at least 90 odd minutes.my vote for tremors 3 is a 5/10.
Burt Gummer is better than ever with the leading role in the film which see him take on Graboids, Shrieker and Ass-Blasters.
This movie start of with Michal Gross who is killing the creatures from Tremors 2.Then we go back to the dessert when were to young guys are conning people to the fake tremors tour and get there money but then they wish come true when really Grabolids turns up.They had to call Michal Gross the only person to return to this TV sequel from the last two movies to save the day again, As they go to kill this creatures they find out that creatures of changed yet again.Which I did find really funny and I did like how changed into something new and total different of the last two movies.There is one thing that did not not like won't say cause it contains spoiler.I did like the movie but it not as good as the last two movie, it's still a lot of fun to watch with the whole family.I give this 5/10.
Tremors 3, as it sits, is a film made for hardcore fans of the franchise and those who don't mind a little Sci-Fi (capitalized for a reason) treatment to their beloved franchise in the respect of look and feel.The low-budget is evident by the limited human interaction with these beasts, be them Graboids, Shriekers, creatures with that hatch from Graboids that can walk on land and sense any kind of nearby heat with thermal sensors, and the new "Assblasters," which are pretty much Shriekers with the ability to soar thanks to butane gas in their hindquarters.
This time, instead of a Mexican oil field, we return to Perfection, Nevada to find Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) residing in a heavily armed and secured bunker, despite no Graboid sighting in the valley for the past eleven years, and residents from the first film, such as Miguel (Tony Genaro), the Mexican rancher and Nancy (Charlotte Stewart) and her daughter Mindy (Ariana Richards), also still residing in Perfection.
Earl and Grady have moved on to start their own theme-park in Bixby after making a fortune killing Graboids in the Mexican oil refinery so, much like Val in Tremors II, their significance in this film is reduced to a sidenote.Burt's closest friend in town besides Miguel is Jodi Chang (Susan Chaung), who know owns and operates the general-store-turned- tourist-shop of her late uncle Walter Chang.
Burt, "Desert Jack," and Jodi, however, still to take matters into their own hands in combating the uncommonly advanced Graboid species even as they continue their metamorphic state.Tremors 3 directly appeals to fans simply by the genial and nostalgic sentiments it summons by reintroducing us to characters from the first film, all of whom played by the same actors they were originally played by.
The limited interaction with these monsters shows the serious cutbacks of the film, and while the new "Assblaster" creatures initially seems juvenile, the fun continues when we see, again, what Tremors has really been about from the start: thinking of intuitive ways to hunt and kill subterranean behemoths that are almost always finding ways to outsmart the human characters.Aside from one serious biological attribute about the Graboids at the end of the film, which, I feel, is simply a sign of screen writing laziness on part of S.S. Wilson and Nancy Roberts, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection works to give us down-home nostalgia, as we return to Perfection, and provides in several ways the kind of suspense and silliness we've come to expect with this franchise.
Michael Gross returns and some of the original cast members from the first film do aswell.In my opinion the film isn't as spooky or scary as the other two prequels but is it a good film and I recommend it for the people who enjoyed the other two Tremors in this great trilogy and horror and science fiction films fans alike!.
Maybe it was the terrible acting, or the new monsters that light thier farts to fly, or it just might be that thier is no story?Nowhere near as good as the first or even the second film, but still a great movie to watch when theres nothing else on.
I wonder if the creators of this movie actual seen my comments on IMDB under Tremors 2 when I said that I hope there's a 3rd installment and this time have flying graboids.
Overall Tremors 3 looks like a B-grade movie from the cover but its a good entry in the series..
This movie is as good as the 2nd movie but the first movie is still the best movie out of all 4 Tremor movies and its good that Michael Gross stars in this film playing Burt Gummer once again.There are some other OK actors and actress in this movie like Shawn Christian,Charlotte Stewart,Susan Chuang,Ariana Richard and Tony Genaro.And there are heaps of good scenes in this movie the best one is in the end of the movie when Burt Gummer and two other people are in a junk yard and they are trying to kill the new Monster that can fly and they have no guns so they make a potato gun and shoot out metal arrows from it.Over all this movie is good with some flaws and my rating is 6 out of 10..
It's not even as good as the second movie in the series, and really the only thing that keeps it watchable is the fact that many cast members return from the original.
Silly humor (like Burt being eaten by a Graboid only to return unscathed) does little to further the film as well.All in all, "Tremors 3" is the least enjoyable one so far.
Michael Gross gets to finally star in his own Tremors film, again as Burt "Overkill"(..my own personal nickname for him which I felt fits) Gummer, returning home to Perfection, Nevada and finding that the graboids have returned, transforming into "shriekers"(..the "Whatsit" walkers with infrared sensor organs of the previous sequel, Aftershocks), and finally ending their cycle, turning into winged monsters whose asses ignite(..I'm serious!)providing speed in flight.