Gremlins 2: The New Batch

PG-13

6/15/19901h 46m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Here they grow again. ~

Overview:

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!

Director:

Joe Dante

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$50,000,000.00

Revenue:

$41,482,207.00

Key words:

dying and death
new york city
monster
mutation
cleverness
skyscraper
mutant
human animal relationship
current
electric shock
restaurant
gremlin
research station
puppetry
cowardliness
creature
pets
electricity

Cast

Zach Galligan

~ as ~

Billy Peltzer

Phoebe Cates

~ as ~

Kate Beringer

John Glover

~ as ~

Daniel Clamp

Robert Prosky

~ as ~

Grandpa Fred

Robert Picardo

~ as ~

Forster

Christopher Lee

~ as ~

Doctor Catheter

Haviland Morris

~ as ~

Marla Bloodstone

Dick Miller

~ as ~

Murray Futterman

Jackie Joseph

~ as ~

Sheila Futterman

Gedde Watanabe

~ as ~

Mr. Katsuji

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Reviews (2)

Gimly
Written 7 year(s) ago
7
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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kevin2019
Written 1 month(s) ago
7
"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.