Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the next neighbouring town.

With the success of “Critters” it was inevitable that a sequel would come along, luckily for us they stuck to the blueprint from the first film.

This feature is a true sequel as it continues the story from the first feature, this time it’s two years since the Crites invaded and we see what’s been going on since that fateful night at the Brown family house. The film often gets, in my opinion, unfairly slated as a sub-standard sequel but personally I really enjoy it and let me tell you why.

One of the things about this movie that I like is that the like-able characters from the first movie return, characters such as ‘Brad Brown’, ‘Charlie McFadden’ and ‘Ug’ are all back. To me they’re also highly essential to the story to continue so it’s great to see them back on screen and played by the original cast, not replaced by another actor, something that always annoys me.

It seems with this film that with more freedom they went ahead and decided to ramp everything up, this does include a bit of nudity from a certain character but it’s for comedic purposes, though understandably not everyone was a fan of this. Mick Garris did a great job of pushing things forward and giving fans more of what they wanted.

The Critters are more deranged this time around and honestly it suits them, I prefer to see them this way. They’re shown to actually be quite clever monsters with their own strategies, it’s like were seeing them evolve, another point of pushing things forward. We get to see more of them with this sequel and watching these fluffballs go on a rampage, well it’s never a dull moment really.

“Critters 2: The Main Course” is a fun sequel and it carries on the story really well. As sequels go it’s a good one and if you enjoyed the first then you should definitely watch this.

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Miscellaneous facts about the film:

Mick Garris had wanted to get Frank Welker to do the voices of the Crites, but he couldn’t afford to get him so he ended up doing most of the voices himself and hiring a loop group to provide additional vocals for them.

Roxanne Kernohan, who portrays Lee as the Playboy centrefold model disguised bounty hunter, tragically passed away only a few short years after the films release. She died in a car accident in March of 1993. She was only 32 years old.

The props they use for the eggs are Sugar Apples.

A cardboard cut-out of Freddy Krueger appears in the film. Both Critters 2 and A Nightmare on Elm Street are New Line Cinema properties. This film was executive produced by Robert Shaye, the co-founder of New Line Cinema.

The Playboy magazine Charlie finds is the issue from March 1979. It is shown that the female form Lee takes is the centerfold for the issue, however the actress that played female Lee (Roxanne Kernohan) was never in Playboy magazine (though she did appear in the video Playboy: Sexy Lingerie a year later). The centerfold for that issue was Denise McConnell.

David Twohy’s first writing credit. He goes on to pen Waterworld, G.I. Jane, and all of The Chronicles of Riddick films.

The film is included on the film critic Roger Ebert’s “Most Hated” list.

Critters 2 is the only horror film under the Playboy Enterprises title.

On the bounty hunter ship, there appears to be a mangalorian head (5th element) in the cabinet of alien heads.

The two bounty hunters names are Ug and Lee.

Cheryl Pollak almost played the Megan Morgan role, but couldn’t drive a stick.

The little girl riding her tricycle while being chased by the critters behind the church is perhaps an homage to the little girl on a tricycle at the beginning of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors. Both girls are wearing yellow dresses.