Critters 2

It’s REVENGE OF THE SEQUELS Month at Mondo Mondays, featuring a bevy of ridiculous follow-ups you never knew you needed, but that you can’t live without! This time, it’s personal …

“They’re back for seconds!” When a load of hungry hairballs from outer space take over the small town of Grover’s Bend on Easter weekend, the clueless residents are going to get a basketful of hippity hoppity horror that just might mean the end of planet Earth! Yes, the fuzzy hand puppets with teeth are back in Critters 2: The Main Course, the sequel to the original Critters than no one actually needed, but hey, it was the ‘80s, and every goofy horror movie got at least one unnecessary sequel (and in this case, THREE sequels). After the events of the first film, the residents of Grover’s Bend just want to peacefully celebrate their annual Easter Egg Hunt, but instead, they must once again band together to face the razor-toothed onslaught of the star-born Crites, who are initially mistaken for Easter eggs.  Only now the meat-seeking spherical beasteroids have multiplied and learned some new tactics for mass ingestion. These malevolent muppets are larger and trickier than before, and though they’ve discovered the pleasures of fast food and live cattle, humans are still at the top of their grocery list. Earth’s fate lies in the hands of a whiny teenager, a slow ex-sheriff, a bucktoothed drunk and two shape-shifting galactic bounty hunters named Ug and Lee. As a bonus, we also get hilarious ‘80s mega-nerd Eddie Deezen in the role of “Hungry Heifer Manager.” And don’t be fooled by the PG-13 rating … this installment features heavier doses of nudity, profanity and manic violence than the original, including a mutilated policeman in a pink bunny suit crashing through a stained glass church window into the laps of unsuspecting children. From the director of Sleepwalkers!  (Dir. by Mick Garris, 1988, USA, 86 mins., Rated PG-13)