Gremlins 2: The New Batch is superior to the original.
No, really, it is!
Like everything else in Joe Dantes wonderfully bizarreGremlins 2, the odder the reference, the better the joke.
Now did she mean Feb. 12 or Presidents Day?
Like the movies plot, its hard to tell the intention other than pure madcap insanity.
There is no denying that the originalGremlinsmovie is a 1980s Amblin classic with all that entails.
In the aftermath ofE.T.
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The thing is, nobody exactly knows what a gremlin is.
And it is like a Looney Tunes cartoon that Dante approaches these creatures logic.
Likewise, career-oriented business folk also end up on the chopping block for Gremlin attacks in the picture.
This kind of fourth-wall shattering humor is whatGremlins 2thrives on.
If it is jet lagged, is everyone on the plane a goner?
Even Billy and Kates story is purely incidental to get straight to the Gremlin mischief.
Instead, they mostly react to Gizmo and get the ball rolling for Gremlin fun.
Who wouldnt follow that into battle?
The feel-good stuff only ever felt serviceable at best.
Why feature more family time when we can have Bat-Gremlins and Electro-Gremlins running amok?
