Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
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We want to be civilized. I mean, you take a look at this fellow here. *produces revolver out of nowhere*
Take American Psycho, a Looney-Tunes cartoon, and Joe Dante's mind; mix it all up, and you get this movie.
Is it a bizarre commentary on 1980s consumerism? Is it an exploration on the downward trend of sequels in the cinema? Is it a slice of surrealism that was only made to be pondered at? Is it a pitch-perfect snapshot of Joe Dante's psyche?
Ladies and gentlemen, all of the above.
I would bump this up an extra half-star if we'd gotten to see the entire Busby Berkeley-style musical number with Gremlins that the movie cuts away from way too soon
I'm so glad this movie exists. Gremlins 2 is easily one of the most over-looked films of all-time! There's so much greatness going on in this movie.
Cameos, satire, comedy, violence, horror, and musical numbers. Seriously, there's a gremlins' musical and dance number and it's fucking awesome. There are so many great cameos and so much awesome satire. Hulk Hogan breaks the 4th wall, and that's all I'll say. This film literally has it all! So creative and so ambitious.
Dare I say Gremlins 2: The New Batch is better than Gremlins? This film is brilliant and it's definitely one of the best sequels out there.
People are like “why isn’t there a good Looney Tunes movie?” And it’s like “you fool, you idiot. There is one. It’s just not about the Looney Tunes.” Also, not a lot of people actually ask why there isn’t a good Looney Tunes movie. This review is built around a flawed premise. I can admit that. I’m a big enough man.
Gizmo can’t get wet, which means that creature has literally never gotten a bath in his entire life. Just imagine how bad he smells. Forget the Gremlins; Gizmo’s B.O. really scares me.
(Also: I spent a large portion of my elementary school career trying to recreate a working version of Gizmo’s paper clip bow and arrow with little success. I can’t possibly be the only one.)
In 1968, Joe Dante started his career directing a 7 hour assembling of B-movies into one epic monster extravaganza called The Movie Orgy . A couple of decades later he put every chip he gained after a high successful 80s into making a movie that should by all rights be called "The Movie Orgy" like it was the biggest most expensive studio blockbuster of 1990 and released it into unsuspected multiplexes. He never fully left movie jail after that despite being a very good pal of Steven Spielberg and it was all worth it. Gremlins 2 might not be the greatest movie ever made, but it is the most movie ever made and that is what Joe Dante was after.…
The movie ran into some weird technical problems about halfway through, but luckily Hulk Hogan was there to fix it.
Just realized my podcast persona is the Smart Gremlin Who Can Talk. Sad.
EDIT. Had to say more.
“I was never crazy. I’m fine. Lemme in there!” —Dick Miller forever
This movie is still so crazy and so fun. The Key and Peele sketch doesn’t even do it justice. Sight gag mania, total gaga affection for Looney Tunes and B-pictures, beautiful creature design and lighting; making a skyscraper a kind of SHINING-sequence maze is a stroke of genius. The best creature work maybe ever? Capturing the Lightning Gremlin in the phone! The burping Vegetable Gremlin! Spider-Gremlin! Bat-Gremlin covered in quick-drying cement! Hulk Hogan sharing a scene with Paul Bartel! A Busby Berkeley tribute with a Babe Gremlin! The friendly…
