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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) -- Third entry in series returns to the small desert town of Perfection, Nevada seen in the first and briefly in the second.

Overview

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Director:
Brent Maddock
Writers (WGA):
S.S. Wilson (story) &
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Release Date:
2 October 2001 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
The Food Chain Just Grew Another Link. more
Plot:
Third entry in series returns to the small desert town of Perfection, Nevada seen in the first and briefly in the second. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Lighthearted, silly fun more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Michael Gross ... Burt Gummer
Shawn Christian ... Desert Jack Sawyer
Susan Chuang ... Jodi Chang

Charlotte Stewart ... Nancy Sterngood

Ariana Richards ... Mindy Sterngood

Tony Genaro ... Miguel

Barry Livingston ... Dr. Andrew Merliss

John Pappas ... Agent Charlie Rusk

Robert Jayne ... Melvin Plug
Billy Rieck ... Buford, Jack's Assistant

Kelly Connell ... Tourist Guy
Matthew Seth Wilson ... Tourist Kid
Jason Hopkins ... Tourist Kid

Lorna Scott ... Tourist Lady
Mary Gross ... Tourist Mom
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for sci-fi violence and language.
Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Mary Gross, which is the sister of Michael Gross, plays a small part in this movie. She plays the mom who has the line "Thankyou Mr Goober". She is listed in the credits as "Tourist Mom" more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Burt is getting gas, he removes the rock from the top of the box that holds the cash. He puts his money in and sets the rock next to the box. In the next shot, the rock is on the box. Then, in the next shot, he is putting the rock on the box again. more
Quotes:
Miguel: The BLM man gave me permission to kill anything that represented a danger to my cattle. El lobo, el coyote, and el Graboid. more
Movie Connections:
References Star Wars (1977) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Lighthearted, silly fun, 29 April 2004
7/10
Author: Shawn Watson (gator_macready@yahoo.com) from The Underverse

I really wasn't expecting much from a third in the series even tho Tremors 2 added so much more imagination. So I was pleasantly surprised when this turned out to be so much fun.

It begins with a rather cool opening scene in which Burt Gummer (still in Mexico) takes out zillions of Shriekers with a massive machine-gun tank thing. After returning home to Perfection Burt must deal with new graboids, new shriekers and another metamorphosis...The shriekers turn into Ass-Blasters, flying creatures with rocket propelled farts. As the town (and the returning, surviving cast from the first film) is besieged by all forms of these animals, Burt and his pals must figure out increasing desperate ways to destroy them.

There's loads of energy and self-referential humor and the locations have a more dark/sophisticated look to them than in the previous 2 films. A light-hearted tone is still in check tho. There's even one teriffic scene in which Burt is swallowed by a Graboid and taken halfway across the desert. I paniced, I honestly thot we'd lost him. Turns out he's okay in the end.

Fred Ward is definitely missed tho his abscence is explained (Earl and Grady went to make a Graboid amusement park) but Michael Gross is simply irreplaceable as the eccentric and paranoid Burt Gummer. And Ariana Richards is so much more cuter now that she's grown up.

Tremors 3 is the best presented Tremors movie on DVD. The 1.85:1 anamorphic picture looks great and the Dolby 5.1 is reasonably lively with lots of bass during the tunnelling scenes. A fair amount of extras come along too.

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