Critters 2: The Main Course Movie Review
Critters 2: The Main Course is a 1988 sci-fi horror comedy film distributed by New Line Cinema.
The stars include Scott Grimes, Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, and Roxanne Kernohan.
The producer is Robert Shaye and the director is Mick Garris.
The story picks up two years after the events of Critters.
Charlie McFadden, the town drunk from the first film, has now become a bounty hunter in outer space with Ug and Lee, the two that had arrived to kill the first batch of Crites.
Now the three bounty hunters have learned that their mission on Earth is not yet complete as the offspring of the original Crites are still there and ready to hatch at any time.
They set a course for Earth.
On Earth, the Brown family has since moved to Kansas City and Brad, the son, is returning to Grover's Bend to visit his grandma.
The Crites hatch and wreak havoc on an Easter party just as the alien bounty hunters return.
Brad finds the remote that Ug had left him two years earlier and alerts them to the location of the Crites.
The bounty hunters take out many of them at a local fast food restaurant, The Hungry Heifer.
Later that night, Lee is killed after being ambushed by the Crite creatures in an alley.
This saddens Ug so much that he transforms back into his faceless alien form and loses the will to fight.
Meanwhile the Crites take control of the town as its citizens seek refuge inside the church.
This Critters film takes on a somewhat lighter tone than its predecessor.
There are more comedic scenes such as the scene at The Hungry Heifer when the bounty hunters first encounter the new Crites.
After one of his comrades is killed by a blast nearby, another Crite looks at his reflection and says in the Crite language "Bitchin'!".
Then there is Lee's indecision about what to transform into.
Throughout the film, he becomes anything from a Playboy model to the dorky manager of The Hungry Heifer.
Lee also attempts to transform into Freddy Krueger but is stopped by Charlie.
Between the first and second films, the character Charlie has found a purpose for his existence.
On Earth, he was an alcoholic but well-meaning mechanic with few friends and no other direction in life.
After he helped destroy the first batch of Crites, he found something to be proud of.
The friendly bounty hunters, Ug and Lee, took him under their wing and brought him into space to become a bounty hunter and a third member of their team.
Charlie, on Earth, saw himself as a nothing while in space, he is somebody with a purpose.
To wrap, Critters 2: The Main Course is a much lighter sequel to Critters and has a deeper emotional story.
If that's what you're looking for, then you will have it with this film!
The stars include Scott Grimes, Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, and Roxanne Kernohan.
The producer is Robert Shaye and the director is Mick Garris.
The story picks up two years after the events of Critters.
Charlie McFadden, the town drunk from the first film, has now become a bounty hunter in outer space with Ug and Lee, the two that had arrived to kill the first batch of Crites.
Now the three bounty hunters have learned that their mission on Earth is not yet complete as the offspring of the original Crites are still there and ready to hatch at any time.
They set a course for Earth.
On Earth, the Brown family has since moved to Kansas City and Brad, the son, is returning to Grover's Bend to visit his grandma.
The Crites hatch and wreak havoc on an Easter party just as the alien bounty hunters return.
Brad finds the remote that Ug had left him two years earlier and alerts them to the location of the Crites.
The bounty hunters take out many of them at a local fast food restaurant, The Hungry Heifer.
Later that night, Lee is killed after being ambushed by the Crite creatures in an alley.
This saddens Ug so much that he transforms back into his faceless alien form and loses the will to fight.
Meanwhile the Crites take control of the town as its citizens seek refuge inside the church.
This Critters film takes on a somewhat lighter tone than its predecessor.
There are more comedic scenes such as the scene at The Hungry Heifer when the bounty hunters first encounter the new Crites.
After one of his comrades is killed by a blast nearby, another Crite looks at his reflection and says in the Crite language "Bitchin'!".
Then there is Lee's indecision about what to transform into.
Throughout the film, he becomes anything from a Playboy model to the dorky manager of The Hungry Heifer.
Lee also attempts to transform into Freddy Krueger but is stopped by Charlie.
Between the first and second films, the character Charlie has found a purpose for his existence.
On Earth, he was an alcoholic but well-meaning mechanic with few friends and no other direction in life.
After he helped destroy the first batch of Crites, he found something to be proud of.
The friendly bounty hunters, Ug and Lee, took him under their wing and brought him into space to become a bounty hunter and a third member of their team.
Charlie, on Earth, saw himself as a nothing while in space, he is somebody with a purpose.
To wrap, Critters 2: The Main Course is a much lighter sequel to Critters and has a deeper emotional story.
If that's what you're looking for, then you will have it with this film!