Critters 3
Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Those critter eggs glued to the underside of the truck are disconcertingly goopy.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

The daughter tries to tell the dad about the weird guy they found in the woods, but the dad who is fixing a truck does not care and does not listen to her. Then he sticks his hand into some slime that was on his tire for unclear ominous reasons.

Louisa
Louisa
Louisa@mastodon.xyz

Hey how come the posters made it look like the critters were in the most urban, skyscraperiest city possible, and then all the "action" took place in an apartment building modified from a townhouse on Main Street USA

#Monsterdon

saucerlost

Yowzers! Remember kids, things improve when you eat the rich!

Thank you @Taweret and for a lovely night of ferocious furballs!

I'm outa here!

πŸ₯“πŸ«˜

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

This concludes my thread for Critters 3, where some fuzzy guys with big mouths eat beans, soap and also an evil landlord.

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and to all who participated!

Until next time, um... don't try to destroy an apartment to build a mini-mall and also don't get eaten by weird little fuzzballs.

saucerlost

Social services have been instructed to ignore calls for help from puppet-infested barrios since the Sesame Street incident of 1978

saucerlost

Who I'm shipping:

Dad and Rosie

Annie and Marsha

Critter and Shadow the Hedgehog

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

The critters have unerring aim when aiming those soporific spines at unlikable or neutral characters but when targeting sympathetic protagonists they are suddenly no more accurate than Imperial stormtroopers

Cactuar Joe
Cactuar Joe
CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

"I wish we could go back to this morning."

Kid believe me when I say there is *literally* nothing anyone could do to your stepdad to prevent him from being a shithead landlord. #Monsterdon

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

"Hey man, it's cool. One of *my* parents died, too. Completely unrelated otherwise, but like, get over it"

Annie kinda sucks. I sympathize with her but I do not empathize with her.

#Monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

We learn Evil Sweater Man's evil plan is to turn the apartment block into a mini-mall.

For those unfamiliar with mini-malls, which I think are largely a USian phenomenon they are perhaps the saddest structures in the United States. they are like malls but less fun. they contain both commerce and sadness in equal measure.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Hey now! Was that scene with the critter revving up and then zipping up the laundry chute the precursor to the Super Metroid morph ball dashβ€½

(The sound effects coming from DiCaprio's Game Boy in the car with his father do _not_ sound machine-appropriate. Game Boy games had better sound effects than that. This is slander, or possibly libel.)

Terencio

they should just focus on what's happening on the Gameboy. That would improve the movie.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

MONSTER CHOMP

First critter perforated with a screwdriver! Fortunately not fatally? Or was that second chomp one of its buddies? In any case the annoying character seems to have been fully bitten to bits at the 28 minute mark. So far so good!

And that's our first rolling critter shot too!

Terencio

"You're not as smart as you think you are" -Socrates, 2000 BC

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Tonight's feature is Critters 3, inexplicably. It's just a bit over an hour and a half long, so get your timed mute buttons set to 90 minutes. DON'T JOIN US THIS TIME FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING YOU HOLD HOLY this one is going to go down in infamy.

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

@moira FOR REAL if it was a flight to the penthouse kind of movie where they were crashing through a bunch of different apartments on the way up. they could have even taken a golden parachute on the way down. that would have 10x'd the movie with almost no effort #monsterdon

Xoa Gray
Xoa Gray
xoagray@tiggi.es

And there we are, another #Monsterdon in the can. Honestly, was it the best Critters movie? no. But I've seen a lot worse come out of the early 90’s. And between that and reading the comments from y'all it kept me busy enough to forget I got this can of Pepsi out of the fridge when the movie started. So it was good for something. :)

Thanks as always to @Taweret for putting all this together.

Have a great night all.
#Critt3rs

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I award Critters 3 a total of 4 out of 5 giggling murder fuzzballs.

The monsters were silly little goofballs. The puny humans were strangely likeable and provisioned with motivations and quirks. The movie was not so long that it dragged on for forever, even if the credit scene tried to drag on forever.

The best character was the competent lesbian. The worst character was the incompetent handyman/henchman. The movie was determined to punish evil but also to spare good.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

A lot of "funny" scenes in this one are really pretty unnecessary. They could probably have tightened this up to an easy 75 minutes, or used the extra time to give the critters some actual goal to accomplish rather than just running amok for the heck of it.

saucerlost

Annie? Are you okay? Are you okay Annie?!

(hee hee)

saucerlost

We already have Ripley at home and her name is Marsha

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Critter destruction / gluttony montage! Couldn't have without one of those scenes, the fans would have revolted.