Just dumb fun. Switch off your brain and have fun. Try not to read too much info as you don't want this spoiling.

WOW!! As far as Gremlins rip-offs go, this is up there with the best!

Radu is not the character 2022 wanted but the character that 2022 needed!

What a absolute gem of a man, he can sing, swing swords and buy women with wrenches while making us laugh, cry and feel things we never thought we would feel ever again.

HIs ninja skills, drill using abilities and encouragement single handedly won the war! Like a god sent from the heavens he carried this film on his back like some kind of shell.

Oh and there was some crabs in it somewhere...

Many years ago, I saw a movie called Dance of the Dead. That movie had zombies as its main enemies ... and was funnier than this output. Now I'm not hating, I'm just explaining why I used the summary title. This is quite fun too - you just have to suspend your disbelief and go with the flow.

There are quite a few things that do not work as well as the filmmakers may have thought they do (or the actors for that matter - especially the times they talk directly to the viewer or at least half wink at them) - but if you are grumpy about it, you will not have much fun either. The Radu character will be the litmus test for the viewer - can you dig the silliness of him (also the actor is doing some other voice over work here, as you can see in the end credits) ... you'll be entertained.

It opens with intercourse on a beach and ends with a song during the end credits ... the song is funnier I'd say, but then again the beginning is also a ... highlight (no pun intended)

A fun throwback to little creature features such as Gremlins and Critters that is not as polished or extreme as it could be.

The acting is alright, with characters that are somewhat bland (with the exception of am offensive comic relief character called Radu, who while fun at times, is definitely too over utilized). But kudos for having a physically disabled character as the protagonist.

The effects are pretty impressive for a film of this budget but it goes too much into camp in the kaju type end sequence.

All in all a fun little romp, but don't go expecting too much.

In the quiet seaside town of Mendocino, California, people are having their faces eaten off by horseshoe crabs that were irradiated by the collapse of a nuclear plant, are confronted by these crabs. Radu, a foreign exchange student, Maddy, Annalise, Philip and his brother Hunter have to stop smoking weed and getting drunk. They need to find a solution. This is the perfect B-movie to relax. Yes, the CGI is poor but the acting is good. And an excellent acting performance from Chase Padgett (Radu). Do not get your hopes too high but you will enjoy this movie. This movie reminded me of Gremlins, Godzilla vs. King Kong, Jaws and Transformers. Another reason to watch: Imorium Clustergram and the famous horseshoe crab. Don´t tell me you don´t want to know what these two are? Just watch it and relax.

I know what you're thinking... Another forgettable, low-budget comedy horror. But what if (stay with me for a second) it was actually really, really funny? And "unwoke" for a rare change? I hate to list that as a pro, but it's been exhausting over the last few years and we deserve a break.

Well then, thank God it's still OK to make fun of immigrants, as long as they're white, because otherwise we'd have never met Radu. Is he Russian? Bulgarian? I'm not sure it's ever specified. He starts as a side character, but quickly gets more and more screen time as the film progresses to the point where he actually performs the end credits song. And what a joy that is to listen to, without a hint of sarcasm.

I wonder if that was the filmmaker's plan all along, or if it became obvious they were on to a good thing with that character so started layering him in more. Regardless, we're all winners as a result.

But the dialogue as a whole is very funny, solid cast and passable special effects. Honestly, I turned this on as a "background" movie while futzing around the house, but quickly realized it was going to be way better than the average streaming schlock so sat down to watch.

Will there be a Crabs 2? I for one really frigging hope so, you dirty hole persons!

Usually it is a good thing when I say it appears the movie was written by a 13 year old old... But not this time.

This is an unfunny cross between 'Gremlins', 'Hobgoblins', 'Weird Science' and a Kaiju movie.

This is a low budget movie with good intentions, but is absolutely hobbled by a script only an 11 year old could find funny.

The people behind this movie obviously gave it their all. The acting wasnt really bad, it was professionally shot and it tries to copy the look and feel of a fun 1980s movie.

But it is dumb, Very bad scenes included horseshoe crab/aliens drinking in a bar and another one acting as a DJ.

The character of Radu was especially unfunny, unoriginal and annoying.

But it is the loathsome CGI that really buries this movie.

On a lighter note, Jessica Morris was smoking hot and Allie Jennings appears to have a future in acting.

But ever too late for the mood and minds of todays generations. Its a soup aux creative of stuff and caracters in comedy that we enjoyed in the 1980's, and to make a success either through irony or forreal it bellydives into oblivion for sure.

It made me laugh a few times cause i do love the 80's comedy with practical joke and slap stick instead of verbal throwups that rules today. Cast and plot and all over special effects are loudicrous and qualifys itself into some of the most cringeworthy and cheesy stuff ever made in this millenium.

I know my comedy, and its not what the grumpy old man enjoys, therefore a degraded recommend, pointing at the first half as viewable.

Campy good fun. If you like to laugh and gross out -- highly recommended. The cinematography, production design, and acting is very good. The edit and score kept perfect pacing to the end. Good work!

It is ocean demons meets the "Gremlins", and then it is Godzilla's horseshoe crab meets the Iron Giant's nerdy brother, with all the zaniness, a pinch of the charm, and none of the sincerity. Who would have ever thought that Dwight Schrute's Ukrainian cousin, Radu, would steal the show? Straight out the gate, following an animated intro, we know we're in for some Sharknado realm calamity with a graphic sex scene and gory violence. It was an entertaining ride, except for the Lord's name used in vain, the overuse of F words and middle fingers, and the fact that EVERYBODY seems to smoke the weezy.

Regular standard creature feature B movie that is by all means, pretty fun. Monsters, weed, prom setting, mostly likeable characters, hot teachers, practical effects. Pretty fun... for the most part. I'd have given this movie a 5, except for one thing:

Radu

Radu SUCKS. This dude is painfully unfunny, and the movie chooses to keep him around WAY longer. They insist upon him being in every scene he can. They even do a fakeout death, from there I was hoping it would be good from there on out but he just keeps coming with his dated "foreign and maybe mentally slow" humor that would fit better in a 2001 movie like American Pie rather than this.

Like I said, would be a 5, but it's getting a 3 because Radu is THAT bad.

So. Who is this for?

If you are having a drinking party and most people are heavily buzzed MAYBE then can you tolerate this steaming pile of trash.

By the way, not for kids. Opens up with a sex scene that will make you jump for the remote if kids are around.

I can forgive the unlikely plot. Harder to forgive is the cheesy creature special effects . A lot budget fare where some at times obviously dead horse show crabs are pulled around the ground with a string. Later on it becomes actors in horse show costumes.

Fails as a scare feature and also as a comedy. Unlike something like Shaun of the Dead, a masterpiece that entertains with really witty written scenes and some bona fide scares, this so called movie uses instead crude language, sex, over the top bloody boring killings, poor acting, and still flops miserably.

This movie is like a dying fish on a beach, gasping for air and begging to have its misery ended.

The opening craptabulous explosion of a power plant, in all of its obvious After Effects glory, is a fairly good indicator of the general quality of low-budget comedy creature-feature Crabs!: cheap, tacky, trashy.

The story is incredibly stupid -- frequently too dumb for its own good...

The folk of a sleepy coastal are being attacked by mutated horseshoe crabs - so far, so good and gory - but the film goes awry with the introduction of the film's unlikely heroes: wheelchair bound teenage genius Philip McCalister (Dylan Riley Snyder), his best friend Maddy (Allie Jennings), his pot-smoking brother Deputy Hunter McCalister (Bryce Durfee), his hot pot-smoking science teacher (and Maddy's mother) Annalise (Jessica Morris), pot-smoking Sheriff Flannigan (Robert Craighead), and pot-smoking exchange student Radu (Chase Padgett). They're a woeful bunch of walking clichés (except for Philip, who can't walk). All of the pot smoking should give a pretty good idea of the type of humour involved: it's stoner comedy, and far from sophisticated.

Writer/director Pierce Berolzheimer takes his film from extremely unlikely (Philip purchasing a revolutionary energy source from the internet to power his home-built exoskeleton legs), to blatant rip-off (the mischievous crabs misbehaving exactly like Joe Dante's Gremlins), to completely unexpected Kaiju movie, as Philip pilots a giant robot to battle enormous crab monsters!!! Even if you're able to swallow the stupidity of the plot, there's a very good chance that Radu will have you reaching for the off switch, a more irritating character it is hard to imagine.

I was down for a dumb creature-feature -- just not this dumb.

I am a huge fan of the 80s style creature features especially the super low budget comedy horrors and this movie is right there in that style. I loved everything about it even though it was really cheesy. It was also very funny and I just had a blast watching it, but if you are not a fan of that type of movie, you will not like it! Although a lot of the effects were super cheap, I thought the humor in it was awesome , and I loved the characters. Also I'm pretty sure I saw and heard several references to other movies which is always a huge hit for me as I am a huge movie lover and collector so enjoy. Let me know what you think.!

The actress in the opening scene. The one who did the most acting of all. One of the first victims in this film. The one who literally bared it all. She gets no credits here. Not here nor in the movie credits best I can tell. Well, she was one of the best in this movie and with her this atrocity is at best a five but with no acknowledgment of her existence as a human being in this ridiculousness, this is a total three.

It's too bad, because she's amazing and I might have checked out some of her other films if there are in fact others.

Maybe she didn't want to be associated with this project.

Who can blame her?

This movie is so stupid.

First of all, it lacks total identity.

Is this a raunch fest?

Is it a pothead loser comedy?

Is it horror?

Is it the power rangers?

Whatever it is, is is not, I repeat not Gremlins!!

Oh, gosh no!!

Put down the bong.

Please don't insult an 80's classic like Gremlins by comparing this...to that.

Cringe. Cringe. Cringe.

This is nowhere even in the same universe as Gremlins.

No freakin' way.

This is so stupid.

And not even in a good way.

If you like your movies appearing as if they were put together on Windows 98, then you'll love this.

If you like stoners getting stoned, you might, might, might like this maybe.

Horrible cgi.

Jessica Morris and Allie Jennings do look great though.

But totally one hundred percent not believable as mother and daughter.

They look too close in age.

And the whole cat dissection scene in a high school lab class is stupid, unrealistic and offensive to cat lovers of which there are many And Radu is just a dumb, dumb, dumb character.

So dumb and annoying.

This could've been decent if the tone was right.

You can turn it off after the opening beach scene with the great mystery actress.

This movie's a real turnoff after that anyway.

I want the hour and a half of my life back!

I know that generation x will love this film. It may or may not be the cup of tea of the millennials and nothing satisfy the expectations of generation z anyway.

Crabs reminded me of the Gremlins, a 1984 film produced by Steven Spielberg and the Warner Brothers. Little, cuddly, cute, and squeaky animals, which turn mischievous if they are allowed to drink water. It was a fantastical horror comedy flick with a far bigger budget. It made no sense at all and it didn't have to. It was just crazy, stupid, funny, and very entertaining.

Crabs have a similar attitude. Although it is made on a much much smaller budget and thus it is a low-tech film. It doesn't take itself seriously and gets wackier by the minute.

The riddenclus lines of Radu, hilariously played by Chase Padget very well match the craziness of the script.

Horseshoe crabs mysteriously develop a taste for a human face with a bouncing attitude and a relentless appetite. They propagate fast and cause havoc in a small town.

If you´ve seen the trailer for Crabs! You might think you know what you´re in for. A schlocky, fast paced and fun low budget creature feature. What you get is something quite different though. I won´t get into details but just know the trailer is a pretty poor representation of the movie as a whole. And for me this movie doesn´t work at all. I have two main reasons for that.

Firstly the humour. If you think Radu is funny the first time he shows up then maybe you will find this movie funny. The film makers certainly think he is hilarious beacuse he has so many long scenes. I found him to be beyond annoying though and I just hoped he would be killed off soon.

Secondly the pacing. The runtime is only about 80 minutes but the movie feels so much longer. Yes I found the movie boring and for long periods of time very little is actually happening.

My rating is 2 beacuse the first scene and a couple of others are pretty decent. But as a movie this is sadly a huge disappointment for me.

Not sure what year this is supposed to take place in but the props they are sing are at leas 30 year s old -- a 35mm camera, an original gameboy. Was the budget that sparse?

One of the computers appears to be DOS based (now we're talking 40 years ago) however the screen is flat.

It's rather distracting and cnfusing.

The movie is sort of stupid and predictible, bu what else would you expect?

Come in with expectations that it's fairly low budget and just taking the piss out of its self and you'll leave happy

I watched this with my wife and honestly we both haven't laughed that hard at a movie ever. But some how didn't really enjoy it

During the major battle at the end where Hunter jumps out of the car and rolls up next to the group was the best part. And the montage of making the battle shark probably the worst... that bit was strange and not sure it was needed.

Umm I originally rated it a 5 but added 1 for the sex scene at the start.

And I also can't decide if they gave Radu too many lines or not enough.. would love to know how old that guy is but there isn't any info to be found on the whole of the internet.

Final decision would probably be don't watch it unless you enjoy light piss takes.