Here they grow again.
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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- kevin2019on TMDB · Oct 20257/10
"Gremlins 2: The New Batch" leaves you wondering what sort of audience this chaotic visual smorgasbord is aimed at. It is undoubtedly too violent in certain places for a pre-teen audience and it is much too fanciful and juvenile for a teenage audience. In any case it is very entertaining in its own shambolic way as the loosely constructed story strings together one unrelated set piece sequence after another. The gremlins themselves are particularly fearsome and frightning looking little critters - sorry, wrong franchise - and the film can be surprisingly gory in places as well, although it does manage to conjure up a relatively inventive way of ridding the Clamp building of the marauding gremlin menace and this ending neatly bookends what is essentially an extraordinarily nonexistant story in between.
Read the whole review on TMDB - daniel_carron TMDB · Feb 20263/10
This was really bad! It was great to see Robert Picardo and John Glover in a film before they were famous so that was fun. But this film really felt like "hey we had a good idea in the first film, let's try another one". They started well not trying to reuse the old film's story but after the started felt like they had nowhere to go let's just have everything go wrong and then poof ... Just hoping the next one is better!
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · Oct 20187/10
The original already had a little bit of that sly humour, and a hint of that sarcastic tone, but is still at its heart an actual horror movie. _The New Batch_ though changes it up and has that light-hearted, hokey, meta-humour in spades. It's a comedy. But it doesn't suffer for it, _Gremlins 2_ is an absolute joy. _Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time._
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Cast
- Zach GalliganBilly Peltzer
- Phoebe CatesKate Beringer
- John GloverDaniel Clamp
- Robert ProskyGrandpa Fred
- Robert PicardoForster
- Christopher LeeDoctor Catheter
- Haviland MorrisMarla Bloodstone
- Dick MillerMurray Futterman
- Jackie JosephSheila Futterman
- Gedde WatanabeMr. Katsuji
Crew
- Joe DanteDirector
- Charles S. HaasWriter
- John HoraDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Kent BeydaEditor
- Michael FinnellProducer
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