{"id":30800,"date":"2019-03-22T19:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30800"},"modified":"2019-03-22T19:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:26:33","slug":"critters-a-new-binge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/critters-a-new-binge\/","title":{"rendered":"Critters: A New Binge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I love \u201cCritters,\u201d I should say that first and foremost. I love the movie series, the first two are childhood favorites, and when it comes down to it, I prefer the Crites over the Gremlins. Come at me I don\u2019t care. So when news came that we were getting a limited series based on the eighties movie series, I was excited to say the least. The trailer looked amazing and I was so ready for it. I\u2019m not one to adhere to conspiracy theories, but the only reason I can rationalize the utterly terrible \u201cCritters: A New Binge\u201d is that it was once a movie that was split up in to a \u201cseries\u201d for the sake of views.<\/p>\n

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Every episode of \u201cCritters: A New Binge\u201d is not an hour, it\u2019s not even a half hour. Every episode clocks in at eight to twelve minute intervals and what accounts for a story arc are small hastily paced minisodes that feel like cheap glorified extras for the \u201cCritters\u201d box set. It\u2019s not even that the entire season is just a movie diced up to look like a web series, but when you take all the episodes and binge them, it amounts to nothing more than seventy minutes! Seventy minutes! That\u2019s barely a feast for fans that have been anxiously awaiting a new \u201cCritters\u201d series. It\u2019s shocking and heartbreaking, to I have to admit. \u201cCritters: A New Binge\u201d is a horrible web series, but one that\u2019s teeming with potential from the very beginning.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I love that the developers give the Crites their own personalities, I love that they\u2019re now more vicious space criminals and less mindless Gremlins clones, and I love the wacky tone included. It\u2019s just that \u201cCritters: A New Binge\u201d is lazy, dull, and often times the bottom of the barrel production quality was just downright distracting. There\u2019s the library music that doubles as a film score, the TV movie level CGI that looks like it was taken from 1997, and incessant use of blue screen over and over again. Our two amorphous bounty hunters chasing the Crites have no personality and don\u2019t have much to work with.<\/p>\n

Their big gag is wearing cowboy hats along with their space uniforms. Meanwhile the Crites spend their time laying siege to the small town they land in, while most of the kills they enact occur off screen sparing us the grissly often gruesome deaths the Crites used to deal to their prey. If you loved the original films\u2019 chomping scenes, you\u2019ll find \u201cA New Binge\u2019s\u201d habit for side stepping the gore disappointing. \u201cA New Binge\u201d is disappointing, and just not worth your time. Should there be a second season, I likely won\u2019t return.<\/p>\n

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