Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Siflutter
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
paulclaassen
Not as good as the original, but still good old-fashioned fun. This was very Gremlins resemblance comedy-ish, but nevertheless still entertaining. The film picks up where the original left off, with Scott Grimes returning to town to fight more fur balls.
Predrag
Much better than the subsequent films, but not nearly as good as the first. Settings, characters, nudity, and other important basics are pretty much the same as the surprisingly-good original. The movie? Well those furry devils aren't all gone and we get to see the main characters a few years later. Of course looking at it as an adult now I can saw the timeline wasn't very good - not enough time passed for the age of the characters involved or all that the back story claimed happened."Critters 2", however, drives the point home just in case you couldn't figure it out. The Critters now have more scenes involving "mischief" as they tear up restaurants in all sorts of silly ways, accompanied by sight gags, slapstick and plenty of cartoon sound effects. The Critters also develop the ability to speak broken English, too, only adding to their status as Gremlins clones. While "Critters" was far from a serious horror film, Critters 2 starts the series down a more humorous path that a lot of fans didn't exactly cotton to.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.
DigitalRevenantX7
Two years after the alien furballs known as Crites attacked the Brown family's farm & sent them packing, Brad Brown returns to the town of Grover's Bend in order to visit his grandmother. But at the same time, a nest of Crite eggs, hidden in an old shed, begin to hatch. As the killer furballs begin attacking the townsfolk, the polymorphic bounty hunters Ug & Lee, along with fellow hunter Charlie McFadden return to the town in order to wipe out the Crites for good.Critters was a knock-off of the Joe Dante classic Gremlins that became a cult hit in its own right, picking up most of its audience on video. The film's success – it was pitched right to the family viewers with its delightfully-mean-but-not-too-nasty attitude – meant that it was turned into a minor franchise.Critters 2 was the first of three sequels, none of which managed to quite match the original's recipe for light fun, although one did come close. Unlike the original, which nailed its humour right on the nose, Critters 2's attempts at humour were so clumsily mounted that it ends up shooting itself in the foot. First off, the film's militant pro-vegetarian stance is utterly ridiculous – humans are NOT herbivores, instead we are omnivores, capable of eating both plants & meat (on a personal note, I found that if you don't use any polyunsaturated fats, which have been falsely considered healthy by misguided nutritionists misled by the seed oil industry, you'll live longer & won't have cancer or diabetes). Add to that the LCD style humour that insults the intelligence of its viewers & you've got a recipe for disaster.To be fair, the film has some mildly amusing moments – the alien hunters are capable of shape-shifting, but their choice of form is skewed – one hunter turns into a blonde woman after glancing at a Playboy mag but even adds a large staple to her midriff (the same character also attempts to change into Freddy Krueger after spotting a poster for A Nightmare on Elm Street) – and the fast food outlet shootout is hilarious for having the Critters pigging out & even one taking a nap in a deep fryer, leaving it with no skin. But these moments are rare & have not enough mileage to sustain the film for long.
Hayjohowe
Critters 2 is a sequel to the 1986 movie critters, in which alien eating machines come to earth and prey off of the people of a small town. At the end of the film, the critters are all destroyed, but we see that they lay several eggs, which, in critters 2, are found and sold as easter eggs. The eggs hatch and the critters go on an eating spree, devouring everything in town. The townspeople hole up in a church to try and wait them out. The bounty hunters return, now with Charlie from the original as another bounty hunter in this film, and again, try to destroy the critters. One of them is devoured, and the other one slips into a deep depression. Now it's up to the towns people to find a way to destroy the critters. They decide to try and contain the critters in a Hungry Heifers factory, and then blow it up. It seems to work, but the critters burst out of the wreckage in a giant ball, of rolling, flesh devouring creatures. The movie is fun, but just not quite as good as the original. It's definitely still worth checking out, but don't expect a movie just as good as the first.
