Gremlins 2: The New Batch Movie

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
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Run Time: 107 min
MPAA Rating: PG13
Released: 1990
Directors: Joe Dante
Genre/Type: Comedy
Horror
Sci-Fi Comedy
Creature Film
Horror Comedy
Parody/Spoof
Producers: Michael Finnell
Plot Synopsis by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed multi-media businessman called Daniel Clamp (John Glover). The heroes from the first movie, Billy (Zach Galligan) and Kate (Phoebe Cates), happen to work for Clamp in his huge high-rise. They find the Mogwai within Clamp's building, but not before he has accidentally spawned legions of mischievous, lizard-like Gremlins. Soon, the Gremlins are wreaking havoc throughout the building. In the original film, their misdeeds were violent, but here they're also goofy and satirical. Director Joe Dante has filled the film with quick verbal and visual jokes, which, for many, makes Gremlins 2: The New Batch a satire and inversion of the typical horror film.

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Film critics varied in their reviews of Gremlins 2. Roger Ebert, who had approved of the first film, observed that Gremlins 2 was meant to satirize sequels. Nevertheless, he felt it did not manage to differentiate itself from the original e...
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Cast

Actors Character Born
Zach Galligan Billy Peltzer Feb 14, 1964 in New York City, NY
Phoebe Cates Kate Beringer Jul 16, 1963 in New York City, NY
John Glover Daniel Clamp Aug 7, 1944 in Salisbury, MD
Robert Prosky Grandpa Fred Dec 13, 1930 in Philadelphia, PA
Robert Picardo Forster Oct 27, 1953 in Philadelphia, PA
Christopher Lee Dr. Catheter May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London, England, UK
Haviland Morris Marla Bloodstone
Jackie Joseph Sheila Futterman Nov 7, 1934 in Los Angeles, CA
Gedde Watanabe Katsuji Jun 26, 1955 in Ogden, UT
Keye Luke Mr. Wing Jun 18, 1904 in Canton, China
Kathleen Freeman Microwave Marge Feb 17, 1919 in Chicago, IL
Howie Mandel Gizmo Nov 29, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tony Randall "Brain" Gremlin Feb 26, 1920 in Tulsa, OK
Jeff Bergman Bugs Bunny
Jeff Bergman Daffy Duck
Don Stanton Martin
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Review by Matthew Doberman
Eschewing the typical progression of a horror movie series toward more and more gore, Gremlins 2: The New Batch was a refreshingly lighter sequel. The original's violence and mean-spiritedness are gone, making this follow-up somewhat more kid-friendly. Better yet, the film lays on the in-jokes, references, and humorous cameos to such a degree that becomes a send-up of the original, and of creatures-gone-awry horror films in general. Each sequence is tacked onto the next like a new room in a funhouse, exploiting an image or gag that relates only tangentially to the storyline; the mid-film all-Gremlin production number of New York, New York is particularly inspired.
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