Critters 2 - They're Returning

Movie
German title	Critters - you return
Original title	Critters - The Main Course
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1988
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Mick Garris
script	Mick Garris, David Twohy
production	Barry Opper
music	Nicholas Pike
camera	Russell Carpenter
cut	Charles Bornstein
occupation
Scott Grimes : Brad Brown Don Keith Opper : Charlie McFadden Terrence Mann : Ug Roxanne Kernohan : Lee Liane Alexandra Curtis : Megan Morgan Barry Corbin : Sheriff Harv Tom Hodges : Wesley Douglas Rowe : Quigley Lindsay Parker : Cindy Herta Ware : Nana Lin Shaye : Sally Sam Anderson : Mr. Morgan Al Stevenson : bus driver Cynthia Garris : Zanti Eddie Deezen : Manager at Hungry Heifer
chronology
←  Predecessor Critters - You Are Here! Successor  → Critters 3 - The cuddle killers are coming

Critters 2 - return (original title Critters - The Main Course ) is an American science fiction film by director and screenwriter Mick Garris from the year 1988 , a continuation of critters - you're there! . The name of the title-giving extraterrestrial comes from the colloquial, humorous pronunciation of the English word creatures ( creatures , living beings ). The film opened in German cinemas on December 29, 1988.

action

Two years after the plot of the first part of the film series, the residents of Grovers Bend now again or still consider the stories about the Critters to be figments when, punctually at Easter, the brood of alien critters that have been left behind hatches and begins to eat the inhabitants of the place who then barricade themselves in the church. Both Brown jun. and the bounty hunters from space reappear. The plan to blow up the Critters in a hamburger factory fails at the last second, so that the bounty hunter's spaceship has to destroy the Critters.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films considers the film to be a "disgusting mixture of horror and science fiction film with a lot of cruelty."

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times is devastating that the film "has no right to exist."

Richard Harrington of the Washington Post finds it "unsatisfactory."

The "Lexicon of Science Fiction Films" judges: ... a pure money-making infusion of the same old stupid story of the aliens terrorizing good people on earth.

Awards

The make-up team was nominated for the Saturn Award in 1990. Mick Garris was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award of the Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto in 1989.

background

• The production of the film cost about 4.5 million US dollars . It grossed about $ 3.8 million in US theaters.
• Three sequels were filmed: Critters 3 - The Cuddle Killers Are Coming (1991), Critters 4 - The Big Eating Goes On (1992) and Critters Attack! (2019).

Trivia

• The original sound of the film is rather serious, but it is humorous. The critters can only communicate there in their alien language. In the German version, however, the critters sing and rhyme in German in every scene.

Web links

• Critters 2 - return in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Critters 2 - return at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ critter ( English ) www.etymonline.com. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
2. ↑ Critters 2 - They're Returning. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed January 29, 2010 .  
3. ^ Roger Ebert : Critters 2: The Main Course ( English ) April 29, 1988. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
4. ^ Richard Harrington: Critters 2: The Main Course ( English ) www.washingtonpost.com. May 4, 1988. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
5. ↑ Ronald M. Hahn / Volker Jansen: Lexikon des Science Fiction Films , Vol. 1, Munich 1997, p. 162.
6. ↑ Critters 2: The Main Course ( English ) IMDb . Retrieved January 5, 2010.