While I understand it's a horror COMEDY it's not excuse for horrible acting and horrendous psychology of the movie, while premise is not too bad and fitting for the genre the overall picture just falls apart as movie goes along. For starters there's only two deaths in the whole movie and they wasn't even of any of the main characters and while it's common for it's time for cheesy flicks to have no balls at all it doesn't change the fact that it really badly harms the credibility of the critters as an intergalactic threat - they can't even deal with few puny humans, their ability to grow here while promising - completely unexploited. Acting is really very bad even for it's time, maybe not Troll 2 bad, but definitely up there, I was very surprised that boy(worst actor in the movie) was nominated for an award for hes sucking, I guess at that time they were giving awards to anyone who were willing to showcase themselves on the big screen. The worst however is the ending, the premise that firecracker, which little boy carries around with him, can blow up the most advanced alien spacecraft in galaxy is beyond stupid and convenient, it's dumb even by movie logics, because earlier it was clearly established, that it couldn't even blow up a single critter, who swallowed the thing. The ending really made me angry and disappointed and that's the reason I'm so harsh on my vote, but come on, for the movie, which spawned three sequels I expected something at least tolerable.
Review of Critters
