Critters 3
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Plot synopsis:
Sometime after the events in Critters 2, Charlie MacFadden is tracking down the last of the Critters. A family of three – Annie (the main protagonist), Johnny (her little brother) and Clifford (the father) – stops at a rest stop when their car's tire pops. At the rest stop, Charlie warns them and Josh, stepson of a corrupt landlord, about the Critters. As this happens, a Critter lays eggs under the family's car and the family leaves, unknowingly taking the eggs with them. Soon after they arrive at their tenement, the Critters hatch and attack the sleazy maintenance man, Frank. When the landlord arrives, he too is eaten by the Critters after Josh locks him in Clifford's room, unknowingly trapping his stepfather with the creatures. Next, one of the residents is attacked and wounded. Annie, her family and five others (including Josh) try to get to safety in one piece by getting to the roof of the building. Charlie arrives and destroys the remaining Critters, saving the remaining tenants. The film ends in a cliffhanger as Charlie is about to destroy two Critter eggs, but is ordered not to and a containment pod sent from the Intergalactic Council crashes into the basement.

Review: However that `something' has just attached it self under their mobile home and hitches a ride back to their tenement block where the critters cause havoc amongst the residents.Lets be honest  no one say to be shocked to discover this is a cheap little film that doesn't have too much going for it.
The plot is the usual  people hunted by critters  stuff, this time in a building so it's like Die Hard with aliens.err no!
Mainly due to the eccentric design of the monsters – courtesy of the amazing Chiodo Brothers – the series bathes in a light-headed and silly atmosphere, but the two previous films nevertheless found a better balance between the comedy aspects and genuine horror.
Meanwhile, a bizarre posse of low-keyed tenants (among them THE Leonardo DiCaprio in his very first long-feature film) attempt to escape the Critter-terror through fleeing to the roof.
This movie start off with a family of 3, going to a rest stop but there tyre burst and had to stop and fix it.Then the kids are messing around and then soon go down a big hill, then Charlie comes from underneath the ground and scary all kids.
then the Critters have laid more eggs, under the van and soon start hatching and head toward the basement.I am going give this movie 5 out of 10, I found this movie, a lot more funny then first however I still think that second one was even more funny then this and better movie then this.This movie as it's moments, and keep you entertained and never get boring at all.If you liked the last two movies, you should like this movie as well..
In case you don't know, 'Critters 3' is best known for being the first ever film to feature Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Critters roll and bounce around the place, bumping into things and come across more like Mr Bean with bigger teeth than anything that really threatens humankind.Critters 3 is a short film.
The Critters themselves – one again – are the real stars and, for all their 'prat-falls' they're still quite fun to watch.If you like your eighties monster-horror films then you're probably best off sticking to the first one (which most people seem to think is best, personally, I preferred part 2, but anyway...).
However, if you REALLY like the Critters and want to see more of them, you can try this – it's the sort of film where you can surf the net and watch it at the same time and still miss much.
On a road-trip with her family, a teen and her brother encounter a strange creature that manages to follow them to their apartment- complex in the city and begin eating the residents forcing a former fighter to help stop the creatures.This one was quite the fun and highly enjoyable entries in the series.
The very nature of featuring them in the same exact set-up as before, with their hairy-reptilian appearance and miniature stature that practically devours everything in their path allows for some silly comedy to come from them breaking into the apartment and watching a cooking show on the television set or eating through the entire apartment simply because they're left alone inside, being able to contemplate strategy sessions and a plan of attack which manage to get some nice laughs with their cheesy natures all work together into making for some cheesy good times.
Critters in my...well, you get the idea."Critters 3," like many other horror films of the time, is awesome.
The ability to get scared is so much fun; the fear of having critters in your house is so much fun; the suspense of this happening is so much fun; all in all, watching this movie is so much fun!
I know Critters 3 does not have the ol critters charm that the first film did but,still the movie is freaking great.
I also enjoy the New place the Critters Terrorize compared to the Town in Parts One and Two. Worth Seeing if you like Horror or just Plain out love the The Critters..
This has to be the worse Critter movie in the series, full of cheap effects and bad acting.
It's not scary, and it's not really any good in the Sci-Fi department, but as a bad film to make fun of, its great.
Critters 3 is so much fun & has an excellent new setting this time in a city tenement building where the menacing Krites end up & start to munch on the residents & it's perfect late night entertainment just like the whole franchise really.
I love the bounty hunters Ug (tiny cameo) & Charlie & they are the only original characters back but it's such a fun set up & some where new & exciting that IT'S ok we have a new bunch of characters that are all fun & give good performances & yes we have a young Leo DiCaprio who is really good in this.
The music score as always is very good just like the first two films & although each film is directed by a different director they all feel so similar & fit perfectly together within the krites universe,part 3 is alot of fun & has some great suspenseful scenes & like i said a great little cast of tenants trying to survive this Alien siege.
Excellent fun & CRITTERS 1 & 3 are my favourites of this excellent franchise, i have so much love & Nostalgia for this film & the franchise but i loved the characters in the building in this flick & the Krites look the best here!!!
Critters 3 is that perfect late night fun Horror sci-fi comedy to watch over & over again,i love the building siege setting & how the tenants have to come together to survive the attack that always stuck with me since a kid & i just love that idea of an attack happening inside a big building like the classic Gremlins 2 (1990) & Poltergeist 3 (1988) & Attack the block (2011) very similar to Critters 3!!!
CRITTERS 3 truly is a nice little Horror comedy adventure as it's not scary but IT'S all done with a feelgood fun style & kids could watch it too it's not too bloody just enough but has that nice late night survive the night adventure feel so to be honest critters 3 is probably my fave of the franchise it's just so damn enjoyable & fun!!!.
Leo Dicaprio's Ultimate #1 Fan. The movie wasn't that good basically you can practically tell what's going to happen before it happens even if you have never seen the movie before!
But if your a Leo fan it's a must see because Leo is so cute in this film and he has a pretty big role in this movie!
Shot back-to-back with Critters 4, this third instalment of the relatively successful comedy-horror series featuring the oddly cute but deadly crites was the first to skip theatres and arrive straight to video.
The movie starts as widowed father Clifford (John Calvin), his daughter Annie (Aimee Brooks) and son Johnny (Christian and Joseph Cousins) drive home from their family vacation.
When they are forced to pull over due to a flat tire, Annie and Johnny head to a rest stop to play a bit of Frisbee, where they encounter Josh (Leonardo DiCaprio), a floppy-haired cool-kid with an arsehole of a stepfather (William Dennis Hunter), who just so happens to be the landlord of the family.
While stationed there, they encounter alien bounty hunter Charlie (Don Keith Opper) who warns the children of another crite invasion.After a summary of the previous two movies by the former Grover's Bend sheriff-turned-intergalactic alien killer, the family arrive at their apartment building where a collection of comedy archetypes reside.
Not that the Critters franchise was ever blessed with innovative special effects or puppet-work, but things seem especially lazy and poorly done here.With everything taking place in one location, we are forced to sit through set-piece after set-piece, as the crites do little but bounce or roll to the next attack and use their poisoned darts to varying degrees of success, usually depending on who they're shooting at.
They stop off at Grover's Bend (same place from the first two movies) and some Critters and their eggs attach onto the car.
I thought the location of the apartment building was smart and I like the chase scenes throughout the place.Definitely a good addition to the comical horror series.
Same Old thing rely bunch of critters people trapped in a building with no weapons some people get eaten critters get killed end of story not bad for a sequel.I wish more people got eaten like in critters 2 but you can not expect real gore from a 15.15 for some violence and occasional swearing..
I would've loved to see the bounty hunters back, but maybe it's a good thing that they're not in this movie, since we could finally be able to see how people kill the Crites without help from them.
But the movie has it's fair share of stupid moments, like the scene where Josh (played by DiCaprio, by the way)mumbles to his dad that he didn't like being called "sport".
Help eventually arrives in the form of heavily armed Krite hunter Charlie (Don Opper) and chaos ensues.Critters 3 is most notable for being the less-than-auspicious movie debut of triple Oscar-nominated, Hollywood A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio.
Unsurprisingly, Leo acquits himself rather well, doing all one could really ask of a kid acting opposite crap hand puppets, but with the script being little more than an uninspired rehash of elements from the previous two efforts, even the acting talent of DiCaprio cannot prevent this from being very mediocre B-movie nonsense.Also starring a young Aimee Brooks, the total hottie from 2003 horror flick Monster Man, and Joseph and Christian Cousins, who played the sickeningly cute kid from Kindergarten Cop..
Cheap but Fun "B" Sci-Fi. Critters 3 (1991)** (out of 4) The third film in the series is certainly a major step up from the previous one plus you've got Leonardo DiCaprio in his first screen role.
The film's story is pretty simple as an apartment building comes under attack by the hairy aliens and it's up to Annie (Aimee Brooks) and Josh (DiCaprio) to try and save the day.
CRITTERS 3 went direct-to-video back in the day and it's often considered a very bad movie but I've always thought it was somewhat fun in a "B" movie way.
I thought for the most part we're given a pretty fun "B" movie that offers up some likable characters, good performances and of course we've got the actual critters back in action.
I thought Brooks was pretty good in her role and managed to at least help keep the film entertaining.
I watched this movie back when it was first released and you could just tell that there was something special about DiCaprio even in a film like this.
CRITTERS 3 certainly isn't going to be for everyone but if you enjoy the series or just cheap movies then it offers up enough entertainment..
They always make good horror movies but then they have to make the sequels really bad which I find really annoying!!
It does get a bit silly at times.It was interesting to see Leonardo DiCaprio in his first film..
This change of scenery was actually quite interesting and fun.The creature (read critters) design definitely got an improvement, and there is more life-like movement to the ferocious little dangerous creatures.
That being said, don't get me wrong, because the movie is not boring or anything, it just takes its sweet time to establish some characters and setup the setting for the remainder of the movie.The cast in "Critters 3" were doing a good job, as the cast also had done in the previous two movies.
And having a young Leonardo DiCaprio in this movie was just hilarious, but he actually proved to be a good actor even back then.
Now, the tenants must find a way to destroy the furious fur-balls once and for all along with the help of everyone's favorite intergalactic bounty hunter, Charlie (Don Opper from Critters 1 and 2).
Critters 3 is most often remembered for being one of the early film debuts of a young Leonardo DiCaprio, who appears as the son of the evil landlord.
My thoughts about Critters 3: I think that the director Kristine chose the wrong actress, Aimee Brooks in this film, which makes the film look very boring.
The third installment of the CRITTERS series is probably best known for being Leonardo DiCaprio's first film in which he made his acting debut and here he was still just a kid, I'll bet when he made this film he never imagined he'd be appearing in big name titles like TITANIC, INCEPTION, THE DEPARTED and SHUTTER ISLAND, let alone work with big names in the movie industry.Anyway, CRITTERS 3 is pretty much a familiar formula, those little man eating fur balls from outer space are back and wreaking all sorts of havoc and looking for something to eat, it also has a TOWERING INFERNO type spin to the story but its actually better than the second one and on par with the first one, mainly because there's better humor and the many new characters are more likable and like both previous films its also fun and entertaining.In comparison its the better sequel but not better than the first one but just as good..
Leo Dicaprio's Ultimate #1 Fan. The movie wasn't that good basically you can practically tell what's
This was a fun movie...I love the Critters movies and this was one of my favorites...I meen nothing beets the original but that is always hard to do ne ways...So i give this movie a break...I liked it...A lot of people did...i meen some people want more...but you can't be too greedy u know...then the next one would not be able to come out haha...But the next one is a disappointment...now that is the one you should be talking smack about...But I still say that this beats the gremlins series all together...
Compared to one and two,this is roten.It only has one charicter from the first two,and there is no,zero comedy here,at leas the first two had some humorous points,but this tries to be pure horror,not even Sci-fi,and fails misserably!The Critters rarely hurt anyone,let alone kill!In fact,I can't remember anyone diying,exept an old buzzard of a grandpa!And this jewel that tells of danger,not only was it ignored in 4,but could have been done without,still,it has some pretty good action,and a weird ending leaving itself open for a sequel,not something for a night of fun for the family!.
Don Opper, Aimee Brooks, John Calvin and Leonardo DiCaprio star in this 1991 sci-fi/horror sequel.
Along the way, Annie and Johnny meet bounty hunter, Charlie McFadden (Opper) who tells them about the town of Grover's Bend and it's previous encounters with the Critters.
The able cast do their best with the mediocre material: Aimee Brooks contributes a charming performance as the cute and spunky Annie, series regular Don Opper amuses as geeky and klutzy bounty hunter Charlie, Katherine Cortez does well as plucky telephone repair woman Marcis, a then unknown Leonardo DiCarprio acquits himself passably in his film debut as the likable Josh, plus there are sound turns by Diana Bellamy as the excitable Rosalie, John Calvin as struggling single dad Clifford, William Dennis Hunt as sleazy landlord Mr. Briggs, Geoffrey Blake as obnoxious handyman Frank Longo, and Frances Bay as sweet old lady Mrs. Menges.
Once the family return to their home – an apartment complex that is due to be demolished to make way for a mini-mall by the landlord (who secretly plans to force the tenants to vacate without having to pay them relocation costs) – the Crites begin terrorising the building.Critters was an enterprising knockoff of Gremlins that somehow made a name for itself in video afterlife.
The Crites are back for the third time, and this time they're terrorizing an apartment building in Topeka, Kansas (although it really does look like Los Angeles) instead of Grovers Bend.
Anyway, as we leave the rest stop, it's shown that there are a few Crite eggs stuck underneath our heroes' RV.Clifford and his kids make it home to their rundown apartment building, introducing us to some characters with wasted potential that spout one- liners like they were back in 4th grade – Frank, the obnoxious maintenance man; Marsha, the friend of the heroes; Rosalie, the overweight woman that doesn't serve much of a purpose like Johnny; and the Menges, an elderly couple that takes care of Annie and Johnny while Clifford is away.
This film isn't nearly as good as the first two, but still has some pretty good critters action, and is worth checking out if you're a fan of the franchise..
But I liked the first two Critters movies.
While there Annie & Johnny meet a kid named Josh (Leonardo DiCaprio, yes that one) who in turn all run into Charlie McFadden (the films co-producer Don Keith Opper) from the previous two Critter films.
The acting isn't that good & Critters 3 happens to be a certain Leonardo DiCaprio's very first feature film, to be fair to the kid he's alright & I wonder if any of the other cast or crew had an idea what he go on to become.
An average time-waster that isn't as good as either of the previous two Critter films.
Basically the first two Critters movie were already silly ones but in a good and entertaining way.
They are about double their usual size this time, without giving an explanation for that and they are even more Gremlins like in this movie than was the case in the previous one.The movie is only made interesting because this was the feature film debut of Leonardo DiCaprio.