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Don Keith Opper, Paul Whitthorne, Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Terrence Mann ... see more see more... , Anders Hove , Martine Beswick , Eric Da Re , Anne Ramsay

Sent directly to video, the fourth installment in the Critters series picks up the action with Charlie (Don Keith Opper) about to destroy the last of the critter eggs. A holographic apparition warns h... read more read more...im, however, that every species must be preserved by galactic law; the eggs are transported into deep space, and Charlie is accidentally carted along, beginning yet another freaky adventure. ~ John Bush, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Rupert Harvey

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DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003

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  • TheDudeLebowski65
    August 4, 2011
    TheDudeLebowski65
    Critters 4 is the worst critters film in the franchise. The third one was a fun, mediocre ride, but this film is pretty pointless. The story is poorly crafted even by Critters film standards. The film could have been a fine end to an amusing series, but it ends up being a failur... read moree. The first two Critters films were great fun, and the third was amusing as well, but this last one feels like they scrapped the bottom of the barrel, and didn't focus on building on a fun. I'm sure that given a rewrite, Critters 4 could have been a fine conclusion. But theres just too many things going wrong on screen. I personally feel they should've just made three Critters films and left it at that. The idea is interesting, but the story is poorly crafted and you lose interest after a while. this is a film that should have been made only if the story was strong enough. What you have with Critters 4 is a film that tries to take off , but doesn't because of a bad script that recycles the same old tired ideas.
  • WrenchLT
    May 24, 2011
    WrenchLT
    Surprisingly dull and boring finale to the series which see's the Critters - all two of them - riot in a space station in the year 2045. Things just got a little too serious, there was no fun factor and very little mayhem. Brad Dourif won't look back on this as one of his high po... read moreints.
  • puffchunk
    November 30, 2007
    puffchunk
    For no reason the good guys in previous critters films are now the bad guys with no explanation.
  • deano
    March 20, 2007
    deano
    Ferocious fur balls strike back again for a bigger bit of the pie, but this isn't quite horror and scary enough to me.
  • Godless
    May 18, 2006
    Godless
    I'm glad the final installment ended in disater.
  • staindslaved
    January 7, 2012
    staindslaved
    Filmed back-to-back with Critters 3 this puppy went straight to video and is the worst of the entire series. Honestly who was really surprised? Charlie is about to kill the final two eggs that will rid the world of the Krites forever. Unfortunately it is apparently intergalact... read moreic policy not to cause the extinction of an entire species, so he must transport the critters to deep space when...ought oh! I think you can figure out what happens. I don't know how much of a meal-ticket this series was for Don Keith Opper but he sure was damn committed to the thing.

    SERIES OVERVIEW: I like doing synopsis's of long running Horror franchises because I find it very interesting when they can survive for more than three films. Critters is unfortunately nothing more than a gimmick and its entire series suffers from being a poor man's Gremlins. The first two are barely worth recommending and that alone pretty much sums up the whole thing.
  • swayland7
    November 29, 2011
    swayland7
    Critters 4 (1991) -- [3.0] -- Man, Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif must have needed to pay the rent to appear in this cheap direct-to-video sequel that takes itself way too seriously. (Thank goodness Stella eventually got her groove back.)
  • theSwitchbladeSister
    October 18, 2010
    theSwitchbladeSister
    There's really only one more place for the Critters to go ... SPACE! This is Gremlin clone morphing with an Alien clone and it's ultimately incredibly enjoyable. Brad Dourif brings some credibility and acting prowess along with Angela Bassett and Anders Hove. Long live Charlie!
  • grayavec
    May 5, 2008
    grayavec
    My favorite of the series, primarily for the sci-fi spoofing in the film. Plus, Brad Dourif's dialogue with the computer is pretty funny.
  • FangsFirst
    October 31, 2007
    FangsFirst
    I always thought this was made years after the last sequel, as I felt a completely different tone from it--or at least recalled one--a lot darker and in some ways more "adult" than the previous films, even all the way back to the first. On re-watching, I don't think that was an i... read morenaccurate impression to be left with. The film was written by the same team as the previous film (story by Barry Opper and Rupert Harvey, screenplay by David J. Schow) but has a completely different tone--perhaps thanks to Harvey being the director this time, and certainly thanks to the score by Peter Manning Robinson.

    Where before humour was a very big part of the Critters series, this time it takes a backseat to plot and horror. The body count, while perhaps not higher than the first two films, is certainly a greater percentage of the cast than either. Apparently, though, it was made back-to-back with Critters 3, within the same year, despite my previous beliefs, and the ending to that one was a cliffhanger--bounty hunter and ex-drunk Charlie McFadden (Don Keith Opper, as always) is stopped by the Intergalactic Council from destroying the eggs left in the burned out tenement building of the previous film because they are in fact the only eggs left in the universe. He is told to place them in a transport pod by his former partner and fellow bounty hunter Ug, which he complies with despite some argument, only to find himself trapped in the pod with them and frozen as it is shot into deep space.

    In the year 2045, a salvage crew picks up the pod and determines its origins as from the now defunct Intergalactic Council. They report it to the appropriate authorities and conglomerate Terracor requisitions it, against the wishes of Captain Rick (Anders Hove, famous to genre fans as the Subspecies series' Radu) and crewman Ethan (Paul Whitthorne). They were argued down by the rest of the crew--Al Bert (the great Brad Dourif, who many know as Grima Wormtongue these days, or Doc Cochran), Fran (Angela Bassett!) and Bernie (Eric DaRae) who wish instead to acquiesce and submit to the wishes of Terracor's representative--former bounty hunter Ug.

    This time we're met with a dark, brooding atmosphere, thanks in part to Robinson's dark, cold synthetic score, with those reverberating low-pitched tones that spread an ominous feeling throughout so many horror movies, a much more bitter, meaner, cynical, sarcastic sense of humour and deaths which are a lot more gruesome, vicious and a lot less darkly amusing. Characters fight amongst each other and backstab and are selfish and greedy. Having a cast like this was quite a boon to this film, Bassett, Hove and Dourif are all (unsurprisingly, of course) fantastic in their roles--Hove's Rick is completely self-serving, sleazy and creepy, Dourif's an excitable nerd (for once a good guy, too!) and Bassett is, well, she's Angela Bassett--she kicks ass and takes names, showing the strength that is apparently so innate in her. I recall it was vaguely disturbing when I first saw this, expecting more of the same 80's bemused horror and instead finding a sort of bleak, jaded, disillusioned film that actually brings in some themes and concepts that are familiar from, say, Alien (I shall say no more than that) and some slightly more developed characters--though, again, this could be thanks to the cast, but it feels like a very solid, tight film.

    I can't skip out without mentioning the natural relatives of "Critters in Space"--Jason X (which I haven't seen, and don't care to) and Hellraiser: Bloodline. I think Bloodline gets an unfair bad rep and carried off "Pinhead in Space" quite well, saving the series from the hideously banal depths of Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth (going back to my theories about third sequels/90s sequels to 80s movies, except Hellraiser was never about humour and should never have turned into a generic slasher or monster movie) but the real point is that this is the one out of all of those that actually makes sense. The Crites were always aliens, and alien bounty hunters were involved from the beginning. It was only natural to see them in their natural element at some point, and it was great to finally have an Alien-style approach to them that they deserve, to make them far more threatening than previously. An isolated spaceship and space station are a completely different story for dealing with them than a farmhouse or even an apartment building. There is nowhere possible to escape to, and that really helps the tension and fear for once.

    As per usual, nastily low scores on places like IMDb, which is why I refuse to even acknowledge them for the purposes of rating genre flicks. If you dug the others, stick it out and catch this one, it's quite probably the best sequel to the great original.

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Kurt Dahlke
November 17, 2003
Kurt Dahlke, Apollo Guide

A dearth of adolescent ideas and cheap effects that appeal to the intellect of a nine-year-old. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
August 22, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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