I have always enjoyed Gremlins 2 and this rewatch with my daughter has really cemented that. Joe Dante just goes absolutely wild here. It’s chocked full of gremlins and every idea you feel Dante could come up with is done, from a bat gremlin to on caught in an answering machine!

I often hear word about a Gremlins 3, but what would be the point? Just where would you go from here? You simply can’t top it in terms of…

Let’s start with that title. I get why the film is called that, it being from a statement the judge made during sentencing, but man is it awful. It’s so unmemorable that I haven’t once gotten it right without looking it up first. So the film tells the story from the perspective of Ted’s long time girlfriend Liz, but it gives her the most cliched of plot points and character arcs. Sobbing in the shower scene, check. Pushing away people…

I'd been looking forward to this since I saw a sneak preview of some footage at frightfest. I felt it could go either way, either I was going to be really absorbed in the film and love it, or I was going to find it to be a pretentious and just really not get it. It seems that most reviews of this seem to fall in one of those categories and I was glad to find it absolutely superb.
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