When Gizmo’s former owner dies, poor Gizmo finds himself in the research lab of New York’s most prestigious do-all company. As luck would have it, Billy is working in the same building and when he discovers Gizmo, he’s eager to get him to safety. However, when Gizmo gets in the way of a malfunctioning tap, New York soon feels the wrath of the Gremlins.
Not as good as the first one. With Gremlins there was suspense and the occasional bit of humour, in Gremlins 2 everything was a little more over the top and seemed to try a little too hard. Many of the puppets and the computer effects were very different and I felt there were one too many film samples crammed into the entire thing. Having said that, Gremlins 2 was another fun filled movie with more action, more violence, and more Gremlins.
When Gizmo’s former owner dies, poor Gizmo finds himself in the research lab of New York’s most prestigious do-all company. As luck would have it, Billy is working in the same building and when he discovers Gizmo, he’s eager to get him to safety. However, when Gizmo gets in the way of a malfunctioning tap, New York soon suffers the wrath of the Gremlins.
The puppets in this film were much more sharper and more sophisticated that those used in the first and quite a few of them even had their own unique faces, something that you didn’t see in the first film. As I mentioned before, I do feel that the movie tried to be a little too clever.
For one thing, the Gremlins stop the film halfway through and then it’s up to Hulk Hogan to resume to film, physically saying to the audience “it won’t happen again.” Didn’t like that. Then there were the numerous references to Gremlins, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Rambo and even The Wizard of Oz. It all got a little overwhelming.
Starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Protsky, Robert Picardo, Haviland Morris, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, and Christopher Lee, Gremlins 2: The New Batch was a fun movie, but ultimately not as good as the first one. Filled with action, violence, macabre, science potions, comedy, and suspense. It was good, but not as good as the first one.
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