If Leonardo DiCaprio (“Catch Me If You Can”) is in a movie, you can actually be pretty sure it’s at least worth seeing. In recent years, the actor has been able to consistently expand his work with great works: “Inception”, “Django Unchained”, “The Wolf Of Wall Street”, “The Revanant”, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” or ” Killers of the flower moon”.
But that even a DiCaprio cannot boast of a pure career is ultimately due to the fact that he celebrated his debut in the world of cinema with the third part of a monster horror series that nobody was interested in at the time: “Critters 3 – The Cuddly Killers are coming Although the first part is now an absolute (and justified) cult, part 2 was much less convincing (in the German dubbing, however, the film is a bummer because the critters here consistently speak in rhymes!).
“Critters 3” came out in 1991 and was not just ignored by the public. The critics in particular have nothing but hatred for the film. A look at the site proves this : The share of positive reviews for “Critters 3” is a disastrous 0 percent (!!!). It couldn’t be worse! This puts the monster horror in a league with “Police Academy 4”, “The Ridiculous 6” and “The Last Days Of American Crime”, which also have 0 percent in the reviews. come.
This is “Critters 3”
In the third installment of the “Critters” series, the cuddly, constantly hungry cuddly killers are towed in an RV to an apartment building belonging to the villainous landlord Mr. Briggs (William Dennis Hunt). The tenants of the individual apartments, who will soon have to defend themselves against the alien hairballs, also get the feeling that there are many uninvited guests in the yard.
These include Annie (Aimee Brooks) and Johnny (Christian and Joseph Cousins), who live in the house with their father. After the bugs attack, the tenants try to get to the top floor and defeat the aliens. Mr. Briggs, planning to use devious methods to get the tenants out of his house, finds himself in the crosshairs of the critters, while his son (Leonardo DiCaprio) hides out with the rest of the residents…