Product Details

• Released on: 2003-08-05
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: NTSC, Import
• Original language: English
• Running time: 87 minutes

Video Details
When two-year-old Krite eggs hatch, a new litter of bloodthirsty hairballs is unleashed.

Review
Sequels are made with fans of the original in mind, and those who were charmed by the first installment of this comic horror franchise will likely have fun the second time around. The first Critters, of course, was heavily indebted to the success of Joe Dante's 1984 hit Gremlins, borrowing the concept of a swarming horde of miniature monsters that are simultaneously cute and horrific, tearing up an unsuspecting small town until a coed team of young folks can discover a way to stop them. Critters was no match for its forerunner, but it was arguably the best of a bad bunch of rip-offs that included Ghoulies, Munchies, and Hobgoblins, most of which went straight to video but proved popular enough to warrant sequels of their own. Critters 2: The Main Course is a genial sci-fi story that offers no surprises to genre fans. Most of the film is suitable for children and seems to be aimed at a pre-teen audience, but there are some unusually graphic gore scenes for a PG-13 production, and brief but gratuitous female nudity. Sure, sure, the kids of today are more sophisticated, they can handle it, they've seen it all on the Internet, whatever. It's just that few viewers over the age of 15 are likely to care for this film, and parents with qualms about cinematic excess might consider it too gruesome for tender eyes. Perhaps Critters 2 can be thought of as training wheels for young film fans who are preparing themselves for stronger stuff -- too young yet for the grisly heights of Alien but yearning for something with more gross-out power than Back to the Future. Be forewarned: This film features Eddie Deezen. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide

On the DVD
ccWidescreen and fullscreen versions of the film
5.1 surround sound
Stereo surround sound
Theatrical trailer
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Customer Reviews

The second ecounter.
There Back. Move over Stripe the Critters have returned. The critter in this one do not grow to be as big in this one. Charlie has now become a bounty hunter. Return from a mission the are informed by the space king that and early mission is not accomplised. He inform them that the have detected signs of krite life on Earth.

Refusing to pay them until the Krites are total anilimated Charle Ug and Lee Return to Earth. A now older bradly Brown returns to Grovers Bend to stay with his grandmother for easter. The misleading thing about the movie is there is a lot more krites on earth than I expected.

Instead only four there are hundreds of them. The owner of the Newspaper formides on of his employes to wqrite a story on Brad Browm. Apparently the incident at his farm caused some bad palblicity for grovers Bend.

This of all the Critters movies is the gorrest. It also is full of funny lines. One of my favorite is when Bradly Brown saids" who we going to call criter busters.

I thought the part at the end when all the Krite connect together to become a giant ball is cool. The roll toward the church and try to crush it. It looks like the end for Grovers been. When suddenly Charle goes kamazike. He fly the space ship directly at the ball. The plane crash in fire vaporizes the the remaining krites.

Think Charley is dead they all norman. Ug even turns into charley to cheer Brad up. Ug along flies up into space. Were he later in Critters 4 would become the owner of a coperation and go form good to bad.

As for Lee is killed by the Krites the game on him and he dies in the form of a model. Ug and lye can change there shape. Ug and lee in there reel form luck like the invisible man with out a mouth. There is a seen in the movie that is really fun when Lee tries to transform into Freddy Krugur. Is presuade by Charley to transform into a swim suit model again. This and the 4th one are the only that Charle has a major rule in. In the firts one he is a minor charater. In the third one he is barely evolved only being in about 10 percent of the movie. He does not real get involved much until like the last 15 minutes of Critters 3. This is the best of the horror movie series that came out after Gremlins that I have seen. I you like this I also recomend Ghoulies 1 and 2. There is also muchies but I havce not seen that yet so I can not compare it to Critters.

Best in the series!
Critters 2 is one of my all time favorite movies! Its even better than the first! they just don't make them like they used to! I was a bit suprised that this movie had nudity in it! and on the back of the case it said PG-13 but on the VHS it said PG. but anyways if you haven't seen this movie get off of the computer and go but it! Good luck finding it! i've seen the 1st one and borders on DVD and i bought the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th on VHS at hastings, and found the 1st one at Shopko on VHS for only $3.00! Oh and don't miss out on the critters subtitles! the one where the critter gets his hair blown off is so funny!

a sequel equal to it's predecessor
I would advise people to see Critters 2 after the first one due to the continuing story. (I don't understand why some people watch movies out of sequential order!) This movie does continue where the first one left off even though it takes place 2-4 years later. I can't remember exactly how long but anyway... the characters from the first movie such as the bounty hunters, Charlie, Brad, and Harvey the sheriff are here as well along with (yes, you guessed it) more critters. Despite the fact that Critters 2 may not be as dark (literally) as the first movie and the little bit of humor seems cheesy at times, this film pretty much ranks up there with the first one. As I said in my review of Critters, these movies are geared more towards teenagers than adults. After all, the Critter films are "B movies".