critter 3 start on the open road a clifford ( john calvin ) his teenage daughter annie ( aimee brook ) and his young son johnny ( the imdb list two actor christian and josephh cousin and identical twin perhaps . ) be head back home from a vacation . suddenly the tyre on their van blow and they have to stop at a public rest area to fix it . while there annie and johnny meet a kid name josh ( leonardo dicaprio and yes that one ) who in turn all run into charlie mcfadden ( the film co producer don keith opper ) from the previous two critter film . charlie tell them the story of the critter and the town of grovers bend but they do not believe him . meanwhile back at the van a critter lay some egg on it underside and out of sight from everyone . once clifford have fix the tyre the trio set off for their home and a run down urban tenement block in los angeles somewhere complete with critter egg along for the ride . upon arrival the egg hatch and the critter head straight inside the tenement block quickly disposing of frank ( geoffrey blake ) and the caretaker . a the night draw on the few remain resident and a fat woman name rosalie ( diana bellamy ) and a telephone repair woman marsha ( katherine cortez ) and an elderly couple mr. ( bill zuckert ) and mrs. menges ( france bay ) must come together with clifford and his kid to fight the critter . josh also make an appearance a his stepfather ( william dennis hunt ) own the building . but will the group be able to defeat the critter and prevent themselves from become dinner . direct kristine peterson i think critter 3 be an incredibly undistinguished film and but at least she can say she make a film star leonardo dicaprio and not many people can say that . the budget for critter 3 probably wasn not exactly a fortune a the whole production look cheap throughout and there be very few character and very few critter and i think only 3 ever appear in the same shot at once and it do away with any sort of space angle so there be no expensive spaceship or distant alien planet special effect to pay for . the script by david j. schow be strictly by the number and very predictable . a group of human be stick in an isolated situation with critter and have no mean of contact the outside world for help and that plot scenario sound very familiar right . well it same a the previous critter ( 1986 ) and critter 2 represent the main course ( 1988 ) and many other horror film so it should . critter 3 do nothing with the premise and it never even try to add anything to an already old and tired and well used storyline . critter 3 be also very tame for a horror film with only two people actually be kill and the comedy element be seriously lack as well with the best joke critter 3 can mange be a critter eat some bean and then fart and very funny if your about 5 year old . the character be mostly standard horror film clichés and quickly become annoy . there be virtually no blood or gore in critter 3 at all and just a few splash of blood and disappointingly critter 3 in fact seem to go out of it way not to show any violence . the special effect on the critter be ok but they still look like static and simplistic hand puppet that have very little movement . the act isn not that good and critter 3 happens to be a certain leonardo dicaprio very first feature film and to be fair to the kid he alright and i wonder if any of the other cast or crew have an idea what he go on to become . why on earth do that charlie guy have to keep pop up in these critter film . to give critter 3 some credit it move along at a good pace and isn not boring and it generally well make with nice enough production value and it a bit of harmless fun if your in the right sort of mood and thankfully it only last for about 80 odd minute . overall critter 3 be an ok time waster but do not expect anything deep or meaningful . there nothing really wrong with it a cheap horror film but i couldn not help feeling that i would see it all before . an average time waster that isn not as good a either of the previous two critter film . critter 3 end with a to be continue . a this be film back to back with critter 4 ( 1991 ) which unsurprisingly go straight to video and probably to save even more money . critter 3 be a decent enough way to waste 80 odd minute if you can watch it on t. v. for free otherwise do not bother .