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NEW Galligan/cates/glover - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Blu-ray)

5 star:		(35)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

One of the old school classics ... nightmarish when I was a kid ... humorous now :)

this sequel surpasses the original,in my opinion.it is
funnier,scarier,and more ironic then the 1st.the humour is more
adult,as well,hence the "PG-13" rating(14A in Canada,which is the more
accurate rating,i think)there are many pop culture references of the time
and the movie even pokes fun at itself somewhat,as does the
original.you can see many of the jokes being set up a mile
away,(intentionally)which makes them even more hilarious.the absurdity
level is really high in this movie,but in a good way.there is even a
musical number in the movie,which i found very entertaining.i thought
this movie was brilliant.the writing is even better than in the 1st
one,and they came up with some new situations for the gremlins.i am
sort of surprised they didn't do another sequel,but i'm glad they left
things the way they are.i'm not sure a 3rd movie would have turned out
as good as the 1st and second.For me,"Gremlins 2:The New Batch" is
funnier and more entertaining than the original. 4.5/5

Those green mischef makers are back and causing mayham in a "smart" building. Zach Gilligan returns as Billy to save the day again! Don't worry, Gizmo joins the party to!

I'm not saying this just because I am a New Yorker, but GREMLINS 2--THE NEW BATCH is slightly better than the original. First, it's a much less mean-spirited film than the first (which I also gave five stars, but for different reasons). Just the fact that a character who was crushed to death in the first film, shows up in the sequel (wearing a small cast) because he really was likeable, shows that Joe Dante and the scriptwriters were going into this film for the fun of it. Second, the casting was flawless. Whoever chose Tony Randall to do the voice of the strangely-William F. Buckley-sounding, intellectual gremlin was responding to nothing short of divine inspiration. Everyone involved in this production had their hearts in the right places and the effect shows. GREMLINS 2--THE NEW BATCH is an astounding piece of comic fantasy and horror that should endure.

Gremlins 2 is a nice film that is even better than the original. I like how it spoofs everything,and I love the new gremlins.The first batch looked sort of rough and raggedy[but still interesting],while the new batch is bright and vivid.Plus,Gizmo was a blast.I am REALLY looking forward to a third sequal,with CGI/Animatronic gremlins[a sort of Jurassic Park thing].Gremlins 2 is a wild and rowdy romp.

This is the amazing squel to the First Gremlins. It begins shortly after the Chiness man recruit Gizmo. A few years have gone buy the old Chinese man that had taken care of Gizmo before an after he meet Billy . This movie has some fun scenes. The weeding in the mens rest room at the end is hillarious. So is the sense with Gizmo working out one when he is lift a bar bell and falls through the floor. Anothew one when he punches a punch bag and get hit back in the face.

The only bad thing about the second gremlins is you see Gizmo being tortured in it a lot more than you did in the first one. It has zany funny monments. The part when Gizmo dress up like Rambo and makes a boy an arrow out of the close hanger. The part when Bill is talking and suddenly the screen goes funny the gremlin appear on the screen a do the shadow puppets is hysterically.

However unlike in the first one not all the gremlins is killed the one Female on survives. Did i mention some of gremlins are genetically alltered by drink chemicals. One of the Gremlins turns in eletricity and shocks and eletricuts ever living creature he touches.

My favorite gremlin is the one that drinks some short of chemical that makes him smarter allows him to talk in english. There is some gore and lot s of violence in it. The scariest is the spidger gremlin who ends up being huge. He dies he burns to death at the end.

He was really mean to Gizmo and is shown tocture gismo like Half a dozen times during the movie. The other Gremlins do not like gizmo because he is a misfit. Unlike them he is kind and good and does not like hurt and playing pranks on other creatures.

The nastiest parts in the movie is when one Gremlin acts Dangle Clamp and he forces it down a paper shreder were it is slice to pieces. She is gus us out of the shreder the lock like liquidfied spinch. If you like this I recomend seeing Gremlins as weell as the Critters series which was enspired by the Gremlins series.

Gremlins 2. One of the very few seaqulls thats as good as the original... possibly better! depending on who you ask?

I wont waste your time with a review, i'm sure theres plenty of them already... but i will say, if you own this DVD and feel a little disapointed that it is the movie release version, and not the telivision version? Then I have some good news for you, if you havent already discovered this?

If you go to the special features, go down and highlight the GAG REEL, then press right -> and you should have highlighted the gremlins hands...push OK and you can veiw the scene from the video version where the gremlins take over the movie, and go into the John Wayne film ..ect, instead of the bit where Hulk Hogan tells the gremlins off! So those of you who where disapointed that wasnt included....well, it is! and thats how to find it!!!!

Absolutely Hilarious movie. Picture all the crazy funny mayhem from the first, and triple it. It is so much fun and the new characters are great. There becomes genetic experimentation and the creation of new types of Gremlins. Entirely hilarious. Absolutely amazing. Buy it. Most definetly.

This film is fantastic. Out of 100 I would give it 10000 and the zeros go on. If you haven't seen the first one I suggest you do as it helps you understand the concept of the storyline. The gremlins getting loose in the lab is a fantastic part, and the end scene where the talking gremlin sings 'new-york new-york' is hilarious. A definate must see!

After the mild success of GREMLINS, there was plenty of room for a sequel. Not that anyone expected it (especially the parents). But here we have it, GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH, another horror/comedy which is this time entirely comedy. In fact, GREMLINS 2 is overall one gigantic spoof of itself. Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates return as lovers Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer - this time they're trying to thrive in The Big Apple. One day, Peltzer discovers Gizmo (the voice of Howie Manel) in a media mogul's science lab. Of course, Billy takes Gizmo to work with him - and guess what? - the gremlins are back, more hilarious than ever, and led by a super-smart gremlin with the voice of Tony Randall. The best part of the film is John Glover's hilarious performance as Billy's boss; there's also nice directing by Joe Dante and a fair score by Jerry Goldsmith. The film, overall, is pretty weak, however; the script is all-out madness, with plenty of star cameos. The effects are arguable; awesome gremlin effects, [bad] everything else effects. A hilarious, no-holds barred spoof of itself...lovely, but no where near as good as GREMLINS.