Synopsis
Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.
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Cast
- Scott GrimesBrad Brown
- Liane CurtisMegan Morgan
- Barry CorbinHarv
- Don Keith OpperCharlie McFadden
- Lin ShayeSally
- Eddie DeezenHungry Heifer Manager
- Terrence MannUg
- Roxanne KernohanLee
- Sam AndersonMr. Morgan
- Douglas RoweQuigley
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Slant Magazine
Critters 2: The Main Course offers a heaping helping of everything that’s missing from the first film: a reasonably intelligent and witty script, a supple and unchained playfulness, and an anarchic mélange of diverse genre riffs. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Good, grungy fun. - 60
Time Out
Garris plays it for laughs, and despite dull moments (and the obvious plagiarisation of Gremlins), does a pretty good job. - 60
Variety
Film perfectly weaves together the gruesome behaviour of these bloodthirsty creatures and the comic asides that keep things gliding along. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
As sequels go, Critters 2: The Main Course is particularly bereft of imagination. Save for the opening 20 or 30 minutes, the film is pretty much a clone of the original. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Though it's somewhat better than its predecessor, largely through sheer directorial and photographic panache, it's still pretty disreputable and mindless. [29 Apr 1988, p.4] - 50
Miami Herald
The original's mildly offbeat sense of humor is at work in 2, and the cheesy special effects return as well (the Krites look like nothing so much as deranged Muppets). Still, this is the kind of goofy B-movie that will look good on the small screen -- so watch for its release on tape. [07 May 1988, p.B5] - 40
The New York Times
Critters 2 piles up every stock movie idea you can remember about small-town heroism, macho sheriffs and alien invaders. But whenever it shows a glimmer of wit about those cliches, it leaps back to its safe, dull, derivative style.
