Critters 2: The Main Course
- 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
- Lin Shaye: Sally
- Sam Anderson: Mr. Morgan
- Al Stevenson: bus driver
- Cynthia Garris: Zanti
Critters 2 - to return ( original title Critters - The Main Course ) is an American science fiction film by director and screenwriter Mick Garris from 1988, a sequel to Critters - you are there!. The name of the eponymous aliens stems from the colloquial and humorous pronunciation of the English word creatures ( creatures, living beings).
Action
Two years after the action of the first part of the film series keep the inhabitants of Grover's Bend the stories about the critters now again or still for fantasies, as time for Easter hatches, it left a breed of alien critters and begins to eat the inhabitants which then barricade themselves in the church. Both Brown jun. as well as the bounty hunter from space reappear. The plan to blow up the Critters in a Hamburg factory in the air, fails at the last second, so that the spacecraft of bounty hunters must destroy the critters.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film holds the film for a " disgusting mixture of horror and science fiction film with many atrocities. "
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun- Times judges devastating, the film " has no right to exist. "
Richard Harrington of The Washington Post found it " unsatisfactory. "
The " Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Films" judges: ... a pure cash-in - rehash the same old stupid story of the aliens terrorize the brave terrestrials.
Awards
The makeup team was nominated for the 1990 Saturn Award. Mick Garris was nominated in 1989 for the International Fantasy Film Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto.
Background
- The production of the film cost about 4.5 million U.S. dollars. He played in the U.S. theatrical release, about 3.8 million U.S. dollars.
- Two sequels were filmed: Critters 3 - The cuddly killer come (1991) and Critters 4 - The great feast continues (1992).
Trivia
- The film is held in the original rather serious, but with humorous features. The Critters there can only communicate in their Alien language. In the German version, however, sing and rhyme Critters in every scene in German.