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if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

"Critters 4" has the best cast out of all the "Critters" films, with the perennially weird Brad Dourif, a pre-stardom Angela Bassett and her awesome-looking arms, and that guy who played the abusive husband-cum-catatonic in "Twin Peaks"! Unfortunately, it is also the worst film in the series. You may well fall asleep before the Critters even appear (it happens at the 35th minute), and even then they are at their stiffest and their appearances remain sporadic. There is one cute idea (the computer that does the opposite of what it's told), and some terrible ones (the worst: turning Ug bad for no reason at all). "Critters 4" bites. * out of 4.

Critters 4 looked like it would be the best of the franchise. The poster showed the critters overlooking a moon or a comet or a planet or something, but it had that "Lost-in-space-no-one-can-help-you" feel and you hope for a movie that is a lot like alien. However the critters are not seen that much and they don't do a lot of eating in this film. In the third film, Charlie was instructed to place the 2 remaining eggs in a pod, which would be launched into orbit. Charlie messes up, and ends up locking himself in the pod along with the eggs. In 2045, 54 years later, a space ship study crew finds the pod and takes it onto their ship. And take it to a space station who supposedly "lost it". Arriving at the station, they find it abandoned, and out of greed and curiosity, the captain opens the pod, releasing the critters and Charlie from their cryogenic nap. The critters then run around the ship, and set a course for earth. The crew try to wait them out, but encounter several problems with the station. Ug and a group of stormtroopers show up and search the ship to destroy the critters. Unfortanately, the critters had more eggs, which, using scientific technology, cause the eggs and the babies to hatch and grow at a speedy rate, and then they breed and do it over again. So now we have a lot more critters, which devour the storm troopers, but are later locked in a room. Ug is now a complete jerk, only wanting to get the last few eggs, going as far as threatening to kill some of the crew. In the end, all of the eggs are destroyed, Ug is killed by Charlie, and the crew escapes from the station on the ship Ug came in. The station is blown up due to a nuclear reactor meltdown, and the critters are all destroyed. This was weak writing, and the series could have continued after this if it had been written better. But the critters are well done, and fun to watch and seeing Angela Bassetts butt compensate for a mediocre film. If you're a fan, it's worth seeing, but just so you know, it's not as good as the others...

Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif join Leo DiCaprio in the short list of Oscar-nominated actors to have played second fiddle to the Chiodo Brothers' crap Critter hand-puppets; in this fourth outing for the voracious extraterrestrial fur-balls, Bassett and Dourif play part of the crew of a deep space salvage craft who retrieve a cryogenic pod containing the last two surviving Krite eggs (and Charlie the bounty hunter, once again played by Don Opper). When the pod is opened, the eggs hatch and the aliens go on the rampage.Krites causing chaos in outer space could have made for a lot of fun, but rather than continue with the camp, B-movie spirit established over the first three Critters films, this effort goes for a much more sober style—something akin to Ridley Scott's Alien (but on a much lower budget).This approach results in countless scenes of characters wandering down dark corridors littered with ducts and vents from where the toothy creatures might launch an attack, but while this might work wonders when the monsters are truly the stuff of nightmares (like H.R. Giger's genuinely terrifying xenomorph from Alien), the effect isn't anywhere near as effective when the threat is from dumb looking hedgehogs with naff glowing eyes. In the end, Critters 4 is far from scary, never funny, and ultimately very tedious.

Critters 4 was a complete disaster. It takes place immediately after the third one and this time they invade space about 50 years in the future. A space ship unknowingly brings the critters on board not knowing the danger of the little monsters. I'm not really sure of the plot, or why the space ship is roaming around space. I;m not even sure if Earth exists in this fourth Critters. Perhaps I wasn't paying attention, but I don't think much of what is going on is ever explained in the film. About 50 minutes in, we see three critters. For a Critters movie, that is a major disappointment. The other three films were actually funny and had some good "scares" and special effects. The scares in the Critters movies were never bone chilling, but they were fun scares. This fourth one skips all that and is about 90 minutes of nothing.There are no comical moments in this at all. The Critters' personalities from the first three are all but gone. And they kind of make Ug a bad guy. If you watched the first two, you would know he would never try to hurt Charlie. They completely ruined that character which is also disappointing. The whole movie just didn't feel like a Critters sequel. That's the problem when they take horror films and put them in space.Putting a horror franchise in space to create a sci-fi vibe almost never works, especially for a comedy horror series. You have to spend so much unnecessary time explaining about how the ship works, what the mission is, all sorts of technical and downright boring information. It's Critters for Pete's sake! Have the fur balls roll around a hotel for all I care, just don't put them in space. Well they did, and the movie wasn't very good.Disappointing last entry to a pretty good series overall. The appearances of the Critters were far and few between and the story of part 4 was a complete mess.3/10