Creatures

Granted, I must admit that I was expecting a tad more from the 2021 horror comedy titled "Creatures" than what director Tony Jopia actually managed to deliver.

Now, don't get me wrong here, because "Creatures" is certainly a watchable movie, by all means. But that was about it, it was just watchable. "Creatures", as written by writers Andrew Fawn, Stu Jopia and Tony Jopia was just a mediocre storyline. Sure it had potential to be more than it was, but it just failed to deliver where it mattered.

Perhaps it was the amazingly bland character gallery in the movie. I didn't care one bit for any of the characters, and in fact if you were to ask me right now what the names of the characters were, I couldn't tell you. And I just finished watching the movie. I swear, I wouldn't be able to tell you a single name without cheating and looking it up on IMDb.

"Creatures" is an alien movie, and as such you would want to have good, or at the very least fair, creature effects to carry the movie. I must say that the portrayal and showcasing of the creatures in "Creatures" was a mixed affair. Sure, the small furry creature was nicely made and looked cute, but the alien creatures hunting it, now they were a different issue all together. Some of the scenes were God awful to look at, where the CGI was just an eyesore. But then other scenes, where they used dolls or puppets actually worked out well enough.

The acting performances in the movie were adequate. I wasn't familiar with anyone on the cast list, nor can I point out a single actor or actress and say that his or her performance was the best in the movie.

I was not particularly entertained by "Creatures", but I managed to endure it to the end. The whole movie just felt somewhat pointless, to be bluntly honest.

My rating of "Creatures" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

Bad acting.

Bad effects.

Bad script.

The only way it would be redeemable would be if it was submitted as a remedial student's film project.

If you want to watch how a low budget B grade alien invasion movie should be done watch Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste".

Who else might combine aliens, zombies and furry little gremlins? The acting and camerawork in this film aren't bad, but everything else is, especially the story itself, along with the editing, which lacks the timing that might have make it work as a "so bad it's good" movie- it's not. Save your hour (or however much you could take) for something better. Pretty much anything.

'Creatures' is so bad it hurts. It's well enough photographed, I will give them that but the rest...complete garbage. Acting is diabolically bad. There is like 30 'actors' in the film and yet none of them has any charisma or onscreen presence. None of them can act and none of them is memorable. Also, the lead guy who is absolutely pathetic is a producer and an executive producer of the film, not an actor and he's just so painful to watch/hear it's beyond me that they actually allowed him to appear on the screen, let alone being the lead. The script is absolutely non existent, the comedy bits are painfully unfunny and the gore is pretty much all digital. Please don't even get me started on the cgi which is absolutely atrocious. Some latex puppets are present as well but at this point, nobody cares. Seriously, this is a rock bottom kind of film. It's general look doesn't look THAT cheap so I would say it's not an amateur effort which is even worse because that means the people behind it are extremely untalented. Also, the little plot there is seems to be stolen from the recent 'Critters' sequel/reboot(aliens chasing cute fluffy alien). Do yourself a favor and avoid it like a plague.

This movie is perfect if you just want to watch something light and nonsensical and are generally in the mood for something so bad it's good. Definitely do not watch it if you're not into watching bad movies for fun and don't expect it to always make sense. The blinking of the aliens can get on one's nerves, the first ten times it's alright but after that you really want them to just stop. The characters are of course stupid and stereotypical and you don't have to be a genius to know who's gonna die, but you probably wouldn't watch the movie expecting there to be well-written characters or characters that aren'tjust meant to be cannonfutter.