Please don't spend money on this.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I was told this was a LAUGH-OUT-RIOT horror-comedy, and was told incorrectly. That said, I laughed a bit here and there, but this enormously clichéd, predictable and hardly original alien invasion film barely stood above the rest. It even had a completely uninspired creature. The saving grace was the moments of comedy – though you had to wait until the second half and the alcohol consumption "twist." Perhaps not to be taken too seriously, it might be a tad fun. I know I would've loved this as a kid. Cheers!

Garda Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley) arrives at Erin Island in remote Ireland for a two week tour after battling the fast times of Dublin. Drunken Garda Ciarán O'Shea (Richard Coyle) is not happy at having the eager newcomer. It's a quiet place where nothing ever happens. Whales starts getting beached. People are getting grabbed. They find the multi-tentacled grabbers and their possible alcohol weakness. The problem is that everybody has to get stinking drunk.Richard Coyle is a charismatic lead. Ruth Bradley is a pretty foil to him. She's also a fun drunk. The duo probably needs a funny fat sidekick. The start is a little slow. It's more fun when the grabbers show up. It needs a bit more drunk humor. The monster is relatively good. This is a good creature feature with some comedy.

GRABBERS, as a film, offers me a conundrum. I love creature features and this is certainly a creature feature. At the same time, one of my pet hates in cinema is drinking, and watching performers attempting to act drunk on screen. GRABBERS is a film that seeks to combine the two, so I had no idea what to expect.Sadly, this Irish comedy - about a remote fishing village being invaded by a killer alien squid creature that hates alcohol - goes for laughs first, thrills second. And I didn't think it was very funny. The characters are broadly drawn, but the actors chosen for the parts, like Richard Coyle and Ruth Bradley, fail to give them any warmth or sympathetic characteristics. They're trying too hard to be funny, and they're just not. 90% of the running time is concerned with drunken larking around, which is just something I'm not interested in watching.The creature stuff is more of a disappointment, and what makes this film feel like a SyFy Channel movie with tacked-on laughs. The CGI effects are as disappointing as you'd expect for a tentacled beastie, and it's a pity because obviously a lot of effort and enthusiasm has gone into this one. It's just not my cup of tea - or rather, pint of Guinness - I'm afraid.

I watched this film last night and was very disappointed. It is pitched as a comedy/horror but there are almost no scary or funny parts in the whole film.The storyline is a well-trodden path for this type of low budget B- movie and will be familiar to anyone who has watched this type of film before: small community under attack from some nameless horror has to band together to defend themselves. Unfortunately this film brings nothing new to the table and pales in comparison to other films in this genre like Shaun of the Dead.If you think Irish people getting drunk is hilarious then you will love this movie but other than a few funny quips by the fisherman there are no big jokes or laugh-out-loud moments in the whole film. If the horror made up for the lack of comedy this would be okay but it doesn't, the monsters look okay but there are very few edge-of-the- seat moments or suspense to keep you interested.A horror/comedy can still be good if it's not scary but it is funny or it's not funny but it is scary but if it's neither then what's the point?