Critters Attack!

On the heels of another rejection letter from her dream school, Drea takes a job babysitting for a professor on the school's admission board. While on a nature hike, Drea and the kids she's babysitting discover a small furry creature. Oh no, you might be thinking, is it one of those killer Crites? No, dear reader, it's actually a friendly, white furred, female Crite. The cute and cuddly Crite appears to be injured, so the kids load her up in a backpack, Gizmo-style, and try to find help. It's not long before they discover that another batch of Crites, the kind we're more familiar with, have also landed in the area and have started eating everything and everyone in their path. Critters Attack! is not the first film in the Critters franchise to go straight to video and yet it might be the cheapest looking film in the series. It's clear that the Chiodo Brothers are no longer providing the special effects, as the Crites have never looked more puppety. Dee Wallace returns to the series, playing a bounty hunter named Aunt Dee. In interviews, she has suggested that she's actually reprising her role as Helen Brown from the first film only with the name changed for legal reasons. That means that, depending on your interpretation, Critters Attack! can bee seen as either a sequel or a remake. Regardless, I can say with confidence that the movie is not worth your time.

Rating: 58%

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