Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (PG)
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This is the second direct-to-video sequel to Tremors. It came out in 2001, eleven years after the original and five years after the second movie. I watched it in 2021. It starts with Burt hunting shriekers in Argentina. Then he returns to Perfection, where he meets a guy named Jack Sawyer, who's running graboid tours, even though no graboids have been seen in Perfection for eleven years. Of course it's just a scam, with a guy named Buford faking graboid sightings. Jack also sells cold drinks, which he buys from the local store, which is now run by Walter Chang's niece, Jodi. But then a real graboid shows up, and Burt wants to kill it, but there are some government people who want to catch it, being an endangered species. Needless to say, they all get killed. So Burt works with Jack and Jodi and Miguel (someone from the first movie who I never mentioned in that review) to try to kill the new batch of graboids. They kill one, and another one dies when it births some shriekers, which later evolve into creatures that can fly, using explosive farts. (Yeah.) Jodi names them ass-blasters. While they're out in the desert dealing with all that, Mindy (Ariana Richards) and her mom are trapped in town hiding from the creatures. (They were both in the first movie, but I guess I only mentioned Mindy before. Now she's all grown up, and had to drop out of college because she couldn't afford tuition, so she's living with her mother, Nancy, I guess.) Oh, and while all this is going on, land developers have been buying up land in Perfection.

I dunno what else to say, except that our heroes manage to kill all the creatures except two. Mindy and Nancy capture an ass-blaster, while Burt lets an albino graboid called El Blanco live in order to keep the land developers away. I liked this movie less than the first two, but it was still worth watching once, I guess. It was reasonably amusing, and it's always nice to see a new evolution of graboids.