Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!!
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- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
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This movie was just pure chaos! I need a whole sequel dedicated to Rambo Gizmo!
Thank you all for the support!
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@@paulbruno4894 😂😂😂
@@paulbruno4894 Came here to do the same thing!
the Henchman was played by Robert Picrado from Star Trek Voyager.
You was correct about the delivery guy. He was in breaking bad as well as many TV shows and movies
Little fun fact: Leonard Maltin, the (real-life) movie reviewer who gets attacked by the Gremlins, absolutely trashed the first movie, but agreed to make a cameo in the second one and re-read his own review. Very meta!
True! Makes it more funny as hell. At least he was a good sport about it. :)
Yep, and in his Movie Guide, he notes Gremlins 2 contains a "gratuitous cameo". 😂
And my favorite Lee❤
@@VictorLugosi Who's "we"? And why did it take them nine months to respond?
@@Nate6981 LMAO
The director, Joe Dante did not want to do a sequel,Warner Brothers kept asking him.
He finally relented when they threatened to hire someone else to make it. He asked for completely creative controll. And his idea was to turn it into basically a Live action/puppet Looney toons film.
Fucking genious.
And it’s one of the best sequels of all time. Absolute creative practical effects chaos.
"Gremlins 2" is basically a live-action cartoon.
So many funny parts but I love the bottle labeled "Acid. Do not throw in face" and "Phantom Of The Opera" gag.
Correct. The director is well known for his love of Looney Tunes, which is why he both went out of his way to include them at the start of the movie, and also directed Looney Tunes: Back In Action, an extremly underrated and good movie that deserves way more love than it gets.
I believe that director (Joe Dante) also did a story in the Twilight Zone: the movie with cartoonish critters in it - a really meta-type segment.
What's awesome about the Phantom gag is it's as much a nod to the Lon Chaney Phantom as it is the ALW Phantom!
"So many funny parts but I love the bottle labeled "Acid. Do not throw in face" and "Phantom Of The Opera" gag. "
Oooooof.
That gag isn't so funny after a recent violent crimespree in London.
_"Fire: The Untamed Element, Oldest of Man's Mysteries, Giver of Warmth, Destroyer of Forests! Right Now This Building is on Fire!"_
The Clamp building fire alarm kills me every time.
"Enact the age-old drama of self-preservation.."
The funnier part is, when I first heard the "Destroyer of Forests" bit I thought it said "Destroy your Opponents" 😆😆😆😆
The earlier alarm "Please do not push over or step on other people attempting to leave the building."
Spanish version add invertebrate to firer description 😂😂😂
Yes. And "your car is old and dirty" 🤣🤣
As Billy is leading Kate away during her Lincoln's Birthday story Zach Galligan just starts to crack up before they cut away.
Love how he mentions that on the DVD commentary. I always laugh at that part because of how ridiculous it is.
Key and Peele have a comedy skit where they act out the pitch meeting for this movie. It’s amazing 😂😂😂
Yess! That sketch is amazing 😆
vegetable gremlin
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"could there be a female gremlin?"
"Lipstick, boobies, bitch you had me a little gremlin vajay jay!"
"Are mimes illegal?!"
Everyone, everywhere: "THEY SHOULD BE!"
This movie made me cry of laughter as a kid. The "alarm" made by the Gremlins makes me laugh SO HARD even today xD
The VHS release actually made an entirely different segment since the scene with Hulk Hogan wasn't quite so immersive anymore. Instead, it looks like your VCR is malfunctioning and chewing up the tape, until stock footage of John Wayne arrives to set things straight.
I’m happy I also have an original vhs copy. Both versions are definitely weird
The novelization had a chapter written by Mr. Glasses (aka the brainy gremlin) after he takes the author hostage.
I love the John Wayne version SO MUCH XD
Somehow I didn't see this movie in theaters but later rented it on VHS. Yes, I jumped up to press STOP when the "tape" started doing that 🤣🤣 My BF at the time laughed his ass off 😄
The impersonation of John Wayne's voice was actually provided by Hulk Hogan, so he still got to make a cameo.
The scene with the dentist gremlin torturing Billy and asking “Is it safe?”, is a parody of the movie Marathon Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Check it out, great suspense thriller from the 70’s.👍
Thats my favorite part to say"is it safe"?
A few other thrillers from the 70s I’d like to recommend are the original version of Assault on Precinct 13,if you haven’t seen it,Three Days of the Condor,and the original version of The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3.Maybe also The Parallax View.
What Jaws did for the water, what Deliverance did for camping, and what Psycho did for showers, the Marathon Man did to dentists
Christopher Lee also played one of the best Draculas ever in "The Horror of Dracula" (1958, produced by the famous Hammer Film company)
Not only that but he was the actual inspiration for the character of James Bond more you read about him the more you respect him the man was a real Legend
When I was a kid, a rainy Saturday with a Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing movie was everything.
Not just Horror of Dracula there are six sequels Dracula Prince of Darkness 1965 Dracula Has Risen From the 1968 Taste the Blood of Dracula 1970 Scars of Dracula 1970 Dracula AD 1972 and Santanic Rites of Dracula 1973
@@Fydron Christopher is actually a step-cousin of James Bond creator and author Ian Fleming.
@@Krshna28 sadly, was
This movie is silly, ridiculous, and insane, and I love it!
Your right "F**k it, let's just do it" was the motto of this movie. 😆
Jerry Goldsmith, the composer for Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, also scored First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Rambo III, so he reused his Rambo score for the Rambo Gizmo scene.
Goldsmith was one of the greatest composers of his time, along with John Williams. He's probably most famous for his score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also reused his 1979 Klingon Attack theme for Worf in Star Trek: First Contact, and his Patton score in The 'Burbs. As a composer Goldsmith fits very well in meta humor :).
Yet one of his best scores i feel that is often overlooked is Poltergeist (1982)
"What psychopath came up with these designs?" Others might have mentioned this, but you should definitely watch (and react) to Key and Peele's Gremlins 2 sketch.
Actual answer.. Rick Baker.
I was just gonna say that. 😅
Okay, I got a story about this movie. I saw it in the Theater with my Dad, we'd go to movies sometimes. The movie we saw prior to this one (I forget but possibly Back to the Future Part 2?) had an issue with the projector and had to stop for a bit, so when "the scene" in Gremlins 2 happens with the movie reel getting screwed up my Dad and I both thought it was real! It was amazing.
You have to love those moments. I had a similar experience with Fight Club, haha!
It was BTTF2,that happened in a lot of theaters actually. In the scene where Marty gets knocked out and everything goes black a lot of the projectionists thought it was the end of that reel so it caused a delay when they stopped it to load the next one
thats a neat story, that woulda been so wild to experience especially with your dad just as confused XD
I think that the original VHS version of this had the scene changed so that it appeared the tape had stretched and broken in the video recorder :-)
@@paulstroud2647 ya, youtube Gremlins 2 Alternate home video sequence and you will find that one they did for the video...i always saw the Hulk Hogan one on TV so it was new to me when i heard about the John Wayne version
This is a brilliant satire movie of 80’s corporate business, and hilarious on so many levels. So glad you reacted to this!
CCN is an obvious dig at CNN, and I believe Clamp was based on Donald Trump and Ted Turner at the time.
Fun Fact: Christopher Lee played Saruman in LOTR and the maintenance man is John Astin, father to Sean Astin, who played Sam in LOTR. (John also played Gomez Addams in the Addams Family tv show).
Which makes Giz saying "Gomez" so hilarious
You should watch "Innerspace" from the same director. Lots of the same character actors popping up. Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, Kathleen Freeman, Henry Gibson. There's a sign on the wall in this movie for the lab from that movie: Vectorscope (alongside a sign referencing the British Sci-fi character Dr Quatermass).
I love Innerspace!!
@@mattschliemann9683 - Great film. Adventure. Suspense. Comedy. Jerry Goldsmith score and Sam Cooke songs!
(Not to mention terrific miniature effects by ILM that still hold up.)
Seconded!
I really remember the Rod Stewart songs
@@mattschliemann9683 - Martin Short dances to Sam Cooke's "Twisting The Night Away" and Rod Stewart's version plays over the closing credits.
One of my favorite gags was naming the redhead "Marla".Especially at the end when Daniel Clamp noticed her and said her name,it got a big laugh at the showing I went to.At the time,the news was awash with the stories of Marla Maples,mistress (and later wife) of a certain NYC billionaire who would later be president.
That guy at the beginning is actually Robert Picardo who plays most famously THE DOCTOR in Star Trek Voyager
Also was in STARGATE and a film I really wish someone would react to called INNER SPACE
I love how often Samantha figures things out before they happen in movies (only on a rare occasion I've been anticipating how you'll react to a plot twist or something but then she kinda spoils herself by guessing it correctly, lol, but otherwise I'm impressed) - she kinda helped you mentally prepare for the spider gremlin in this one! haha
Hey you're here too... lol... hey 👋🏾 Samantha's so good at that
@@thebookgeek87 Aw, hey dear friend! Awesome to cross paths with you elsewhere on CZcams too 🖤 I've been following these for a while now; a married couple doing reaction vids together are total relationship goals lol. And yeah, like I said above, I'm almost disappointed sometimes, because I am waiting for them to react to the plot twist, but suddenly she's like "What if HE is the killer?" and I go "Damn it, I wanted to see the shock on their faces" haha
You not remembering the name Gizmo, makes me feel ancient. Forgetting Gizmo from the height of his popularity is like forgetting the name ""Harry Potter" today. But one day you'll probably be watching reaction videos and kids born in the 2030s will be struggling to remember Her? Hermon? Hiney? lol
as a huge LOTR fan and only saw the first 3 Harry Potters, i forget that kids name (the red haired one right? lol)
I don't know if anyone commented about the Gizmo torture from the first movie (maybe I did, who remembers?) but the story is that the Gizmo puppet was really difficult to operate and broke down all the time. It became a gallows humor kind of release for the crew to come up with creative ways to torture and mutilate Gizmo and a lot of the more outlandish ideas were filmed for the movie, although not all of them went in due to their disturbing and graphic nature. There's a snippet of Gizmo torture in this one as a callback but Joe Dante and Co. had other fish to fry. :)
Dante says he resisted the idea of a "Gremlins" sequel for years and Warner Bros. tried to make it without him but nobody ever came up with an idea for it so finally they went back to Dante and offered him the opportunity to do whatever he wanted with a "Gremlins" sequel and he took the money and ran with it, resulting in this movie. He put in all his friends and favorite character actor types (like Christopher Lee and Kathleen Freeman and Robert Picardo and Robert Prosky and Dick Miller, obviously) most of whom only had to drop in for a few days to shoot their bits. By contrast the gremlin chaos unit shot for months and months and months. In hindsight Dante figured they wouldn't have been able to make a practical "Gremlins" movie had they done it any later than they did. "Jurassic Park" was on the horizon which would fling open the floodgates for CGI special effects and make practical effects old hat, even though a lot of the stuff in "Jurassic Park" was actually practical rather than computer generated.
Somehow I always forget about the talking building. LMAO!!
As much as I enjoy this, it's sad to think that NOBODY went to see it back in the day. It was a very expensive failure for the studio. :(
The biggest problem was both that they changed the release date and didn't inform most people of it being out. I was lucky enough to see it at my local drive-in theater as a kid (the first time I attended a movie there), and I LOVED IT!!
I assumed the entire world was not insane back then - I remember horrible word of mouth and didn’t go - but accepted wisdom among those who never saw “Gremlins 2” has been that it was awful and not worth watching for quite a while. Hopefully that changes enough to get Joe Dante back in the director’s chair soon. 😎
I was lucky enough to get to see this in theaters. the scene with the film "breaking" really caught us off guard. lol
This is one of my favorite movies!
I actually met John Glover (Daniel Clamp) last weekend at the Mississippi Comic Con and he was such an absolute gem of a person. He’s so funny and friendly.
did you ask about him being Clamp? i just now he was in Batman and Robin and Shazam
One of the greatest 4th Wall breaks ever.
Fun Fact... This movie was the first time the word "smart" as in tech was used. We now have smart phones, smart TVs, Smart refrigerators, smart toasters. This movie is the first time that "smart" was used that way. Phoebe, while doing her tour refers to the building as a "smart" building. Including the quotes...
Gizmo had screen time, electric shock, Lego gremlin, train track, printer/copier, spider, training, desk, creating the new batch, air ducts, in the box.
Sam Wang was old guy.
His childhood story is coming May 23
Called 'Adventures of the Mogawai'
"Ah, must be my malaria" - still one of the best lines in cinema history.
The best sequel Hollywood has ever put out which is ironically the one that was accomplished with the director having free creative control. 👏🏼
Rick Baker took over the creature effects from Chris Walas (who was directing THE FLY 2 at this time), but Baker originally declined to do the film, as the Gremlins weren't his own designs and he already knew how much work it would end up being. Director Joe Dante and writer Charlie Haas then added in the genetic lab subplot, so Baker could literally "reinvent" his own style of Gremlins.
If they do make a third one, Daniel Clamp HAS to be president!
I've always had a soft spot for this movie, and I think I actually saw it before the first one! The animatronic FX are so good because multi-Oscar winner Rick Baker supervised them. He originally turned the project down because he didn't want to follow someone else's work (Chris Walas did the gremlin FX in the first one), but changed his mind when he was allowed to create characters out of the gremlins, rather than have them be generic monsters. And he went nuts with it, just like the director & co did with the rest of the film!
The Bat Gremlin is to this day one of my favorite creature designs in anything ever.
if i ever won one of those 500 million lotteries, id totally drop 50-100 mill and get Joe Dante to go batshit crazy for a 3rd, and only have puppets made and not use CGI to keep the realism
I have always found this movie to be better than the original.
It's fun but not better imo.
Get a CAT scan lol You might wanna look into that
This one is more entertaining.
They're both great. I like the first a little bit better because I prefer that one's soundtrack and I like Walas' base gremlin design better than Baker's, but this one is definitely more in my wheelhouse tonally so it's really a crapshoot.
I liked the first one better. Especially the design of Gizmo and the Gremlins. This one was too over the top
I totally agree.....this movie is very self-aware and all over the place. Also the practical creature effects have definitely stood the test of time. Thanks for the fun reaction!
25:04 "This could literally not get any worse"
Me knowing Mohawk is about to drink spider potion - 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"is gizmo just going to get tortured the whole movie?" to survive war....... you gotta become war....
Your correct, the messenger was Raymond Cruz that played Tuco on Breaking Bad. If you pay close attention though you'll notice the Swat leader at the end that shot the dead gremlin is Dean Norris that also played on Breaking Bad as Hank Schrader.
And mike is in the first gremlins! Lol The creator was a gremlins fan it seems.
@@dedman13 Holy crap! I didn't know he was in the first one, I hardly recognized him. Great eye.
Mohawk is the reincarnation of Stripe. Instead of leading the gremlins like he did in the first one he’s just out to get revenge on Gizmo for killing him in his previous life
Probably the most meta movie ever made.
I hated it when I first saw it, but it grew on me over the years.
Still waiting for Gremlins 3...
There's going to be a 10 episode tv show on HBO next year.
if i won a billion in the lottery, id pay Joe Dante handsomely and pump hella money into it, make sure theres no CGI, hell i know id lose out at making my money back, but its always been a lifelong dream to have a Gremlins 3 to me...Id hope Joe still has batshit crazy ideas if he did do one, kinda hard to top a science lab that changes the Gremlins looks but im sure theres an idea somewhere out there
The character of "Grampa Fred" in this was played by Robert Prosky , who was the projectionist in Last Action Hero. The character was a spoof of Al Lewis's "Grampa Munster" character from the 60s tv show The Munsters. You see, at the time this movie was made, Al Lewis had a job hosting a weekend "creature feature" show dressed up as his "Grampa' character.
The only thing I remember from the original Gremlins was when one of them grew wings and Slayer's "Angel of Death" started playing. Such a wonderfully jarring moment in an essentially kids film lol. More than 25 years ago...sheesh...
So when I went to see this in theaters the power went out before the movie started. The theater gave everyone passes to see their next movie for free. I chose to use my pass in another attempt to see this movie. You can imagine my reaction when the melting film gag occurred. By the time "you've gotta be f'n kidding me" popped into my head the Gremlins were making those hand shadows on the screen. Priceless.
omg, that must of been very weird but cool to experience, crazy timing, heard from other ppl that Back to the Future 2 was playing around the same time and the movie would mess up after marty gets knocked out to a black screen, the projectionist would think it was time to restart a reel and things would mess up.
I completely forgot how hilarious (and ridiculous) this 2nd one was until I laughed constantly along with you two through the whole thing 😂😆
According to the book, the names of Gizmos "children" were Daffy (the crazy goofy one), Lenny (the buck tooth one), George (the always upset looking one), and Mohawk (obvious). Mohawk was also the one to turn into a spider.
The female Gremlin at the end was named Greta.
The smart Gremlin is (unsurprisingly) called Brain.
There was a book??
@@graham974 Yeah, in it, Gizmo named them in his head, after they popped out of his back. He was inspired mostly by the TV he watched. Like the upset looking one and the bucktooth one reminded him of George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, and the crazy one reminded him of Daffy Duck.
@@ElaMongrella That’s interesting! Explains why they were all like cartoon characters. You should check out the Gremlins 2 sketch by Key & Peele if you haven’t seen it. Hilarious!
Mohawk is mohawk, but the other 3 are definitely a play on the stooges, no?
Christopher Lee was awesome! A little known fact about him is that he knew some Finnish, like Tolkien, who used many languages, also Finnish, in LOTR. Actually, the names, places and words came first and the plot for LOTR later. But Mr Lee liked Finland so much that he enlisted with other Brits to fight in our Winter War, from 1939 onwards. How cool is that? A valiant effort by a true gentleman and a fine actor. R.I.P.
and the fact that he was in a power metal band
The movie was more of a comedy satire that plays into the the silliness of the “rules” of the first movie. The director Joe Dante just wanted to parody the first movie and go completely off-the-wall with the sequel.
1.The ugly, mean-looking one is 'Butch'
2. The dopey one paired with him is 'George'
3.The orange one is 'Daffy'
4. 'Mohawk', the leader, is distinguished by the white hair flowing from his head then down his back(Stripe's reincarnation)
I recognized some of the cast from Innerspace. Another fun 80's scifi with Dennis Quad. Worth a watch imo.
6:24 Grandpa Fred (Robert Prosky - You might remember him from Last Action Hero as Nick the owner of the movie theater) called it "The Attack of the Octopus People", but it's actually a movie from 1971 called Octaman.
"He can broad....broad.....broadcast."
You ok there, Samantha?
No 😂
Maybe already mentioned, but the maintenance guy who got Gizmo wet with the drinking fountain was John Astin, best known as Gomez Addams from the Addams Family TV show in the 1960s. His son is Sean Astin, otherwise known as Samwise Gamgee from the Lord of the Rings.
The line "Is it safe" and the whole dentist chair skit is a direct reference to the spy thriller Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman, where the main character gets tortured for information, the villains having tied him up on a dentist chair, drilling into his teeth, while repeating that line. I had seen Gremlins 2 multiple times and only realized that later, when I saw Marathon Man.
That one building was like Springfield from the Simpsons. Whatever the writers need, it exists there. All in the same building.
Clamp was supposed to be more of a villain, but they changed it during filming to make him nicer and more helpful. Kind of weird there's no human villain in a corporate setting.
Well the security guard is the human villain.
i kinda thought that might of been a joke, and just accepted it as my own personal joke if it wasnt cuz i always thought it would be funny to see the "Corporate" guy actually be nice and not a stereo type villain that usually would be in the case in a lot of film and shows
Thank you. First, Phoebe Cates was my first childhood Hollywood crush because of this movie. Second, yes the Key and Peele sketch.
I’m not sure if anyone has told y’all but Klamp Tower is based off Trump Tower lol. Also the old vampire is Grandpa Munster from The Munsters, & Leonard Malten is a real movie critic from this era who really gave Gremlins a bad review when it came out, so when they asked him to do a tongue & cheek cameo he agreed! This movie is full of pop culture references.
The announcements over the intercom made me think of Airplane! "The white zone is for loading..."
The director was given $50 million by the studio which put it's trust in his "artistic vision." Last time this happened!
The little mogwai that was in the trash can was Mohawk, a reincarnation of the leader, Stripe, the villainous gremlin leader from the first movie!!!! Gizmo was absolutely toast when THIS new leader and his followers(George, the ugly one who came out the drawer first, Lenny, the goofy, clumsy, bucktoothed one, and Daffy, the crazy one with the orange-brown fur who constantly laughs) gang up and place him in the vent in the beginning.😮
You were right about that messenger guy - he played Tuco in Breaking Bad. Also, Christopher Lee played Saruman in Lord of the Rings, not Sauron. Easy mistake to make since they were the 2 big bad guys and their names are so similar.
His small roles in "training day" and " blood in blood out"
And the maintenance guy at the water fountain played the original Gomez Addams.
Samantha also recognised Mike (Jonathan Banks) as the deputy in the first Gremlins.
Christopher Lee's most legendary role, before Saruman, was playing Dracula multiple times for Hammer films. He also played the assassin Scaramanga, the main antagonist in Roger Moore's second Bond movie, The Man with the Golden Gun. Director Tim Burton, a big fan of classic horror, also hired Lee to make a cameo in The Headless Horseman.
@@rikuruohomaki3230 it's called Sleepy Hollow
5:59 That's Henry Gibson, probably best known for "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," an SNL type show from the late 60s that also featured young Goldie Hawn. People would have recognized him, so the short wordless cameo was especially funny at the time.
Also, Wilbur from Hanna Barbera’s 1973 film adaptation of Charlotte’s Web.
A funny thing about the "end of civilization" reel is that it was revealed a few years ago that CNN really did have a prerecorded clip to play in case the world was ending.
Warner Bros. was so desperate to do a Gremlins 2, the actually agreed to Joe Dante's demand to have sole creative control and this gloriously insane movie was the result. In turn, Dante's intention for Gremlins 2 was to ensure there was never a Gremlins 3 and 31 years later he's been successful so far.
Glad you two loved Daniel Clamp. He's great. He was originally meant to be the villain and a mix of Donald Trump and Ted Turner. But John Glover played him as such an affable and likable guy so they re-wrote his role. (Also, Clamp's end of the world tape is based on an actual tape Ted Turner had made to broadcast on CNN in the even of the end of the world and can be found on CZcams!)
I knew there was a lot of Donald Trump in the portrayal (and the building with his name).
The lead Gremlins are based on old Cartoon Characters and Actors.
The hyper one is supposed to be Donald Duck, the one with the big teeth is Goofy, the mean looking one with the big lips is the old actor Edward G. Robinson.
Daffy Duck cause he would always laugh the way that Gremlin did plus Warner Brothers owns Looney Tunes
Lol the talking Gremlin was always quoted by us after we first watched this movie. We kept quoting 'we dont taann we dont buurrrnn' randomly.
The dentist scene with the psychotic gremlin is a direct parody of the famous torture scene from the 1976 classic Dustin Hoffman movie "Marathon Man". Hence the gremlin saying "Is it safe?"
31:03 You spotted Tuco as the delivery man, but you missed Hank with the shotgun!
Forster, the jerk who ends up with the female Gremlin, was played by Robert Picardo who is probably best known for playing the holographic doctor on Star Trek Voyager. He was also the voice and likeness of the robotic Johnny Cab driver in Total Recall, as well as doing a lot of work in full-body costumes, like the swamp hag in Legend, the aliens in Explorers, etc.
8:40 Never realized that Gremlins 2 basically created the idea of Pikachu an electric rodent.
Also "Santa Claus the Movie" 1985 with Dudley Moore is a super wholesome Christmas film I'd love to see on your channel, one of my all time favourites :)
Gremlins 2 is a CHRISTMAS movie!! Also HULKAMANIA STILL RULES!! I still remember when Hulk Hogan appeared on screen at movie theater pretty much everyone started laughing and cheering.
I'm sure it's been said before but you have to watch (or preferably react) to the Key and Peele gremlins 2 sketch. Comedy gold.
A meta-satire ahead of it's time, _Gremlins 2_ is like a live-action _Simpsons_ episode. So underrated. If you dig it, Joe Dante & John Landis' 1987 comedy _Amazon Women On The Moon_ is worth adding to the list - one of the funniest films ever made.
Bulls**t or not?🤔
More like, to me, in the vein of a “Looney Tunes” episode
Only realised last year that the red head is Caroline from Sixteen candles. Plus the camera nut is Long Duc Dong.
No one ever noticed the maintenence guy was John Astin who played Gomez in the Addams Family from the 60's
This is the first gremlins movie I ever saw (VHS rental from a store 15 miles away from home in rural Scotland in ~1992) when I was 9 years old - must have watched the movie 30+ times in the 5 days I had it! Loved it, never seen it since till now 😃
oh man, its always a good rewatch, i watched it at least 80 times coming on TV, cant remember if i owned it though cuz my family had a crap ton of VHSs on shelves, luckily DVDs were thinner cuz that collection got a bit wild too
That building the film takes place in as far as the entrance anyway is 101 Park Ave. right off Grand Central Station. I know because I had an office job there as an intern. Inside it looks nothing like the film, unfortunately.
There is Key and Pelle sketch about how the script was written for Gremlins 2 that you should watch now that you have seeen the movie.
It’s hilarious
Love you guys. This movie had me bursting into non-stop teary-eyed laughter as a kid and still does. Another horror sequel that is a bit more comedic than the first is the second Tremors movie Aftershocks. The first third or half is silliness (nowhere near the over-the-top insanity of Gremlins 2) before the horror kicks in. It is a very satisfying sequel.
I like the first movie. I saw it as a child and was scared and fascinated by it. The second one came out when I was 15, and after seeing it a few times I grew to love it so much more for how off the wall ridiculous it is.
Richard Picardo is in this?! I almost didn't recognize him with the hair. You may know him as The Doctor on Star Trek Voyager or Mr. Woolsey on SG1 and Stargate Atlantis.
"Are mimes illegal?" Oh, in a just world....
Jesus Christ, Phoebe Cates was cute.
I'd suggest that the first Gremlins film WAS a kids' movie, just an '80s kids movie. They didn't coddle us. You ever see Young Sherlock Holmes? There's human sacrifice in that film, for god's sake!
Clamp knows how to get things done, and he's a good guy. He's got my vote.
Ugh. That's the one thing that has aged SO BADLY with this movie and why I can't enjoy it anymore. Before it was well known about his true nature, they made a parody of one of the most ignorant, hateful, stupid, xenophobic, rapey, ugly, disgusting, racist, sexist, homophobic, brainless, self-absorbed, black-hearted, twisted, grossest, wanna-be facist dictator scumbag pieces of rotting, stinking human garbage the entire nation has ever seen, and made him look like a thin, relatively good looking, nice, well-meaning person. In an age when a lot of horrible and awful human beings have already formed a cult around that pathetic loser, the last thing we need in the world is any more wrong, positive portrayals of him. This movie couldn't have aged any worse if it showed a Subway spokesperson dressed up as Santa Claus with a child on his lap, or had a cameo of Harvey Weinstien as a feminist icon with a loving marriage.
^^Wow^^ Somebody needs a TDS vax
The film makers actually wanted Daniel Clamp to be even more obviously Donald Trump…but wanted the audience to like him.
@@the-NightStar omg chill weirdo
@@the-NightStar First of all, get some therapy. Second, Daniel Clamp was intended to be a combination of Donald Trump and Ted Turner.
“Why is no one reacting and helping him?” It’s New York. This is a regular Tuesday for most of them.
This is the Key & Peele sketch mentioned below that pretty much imagines EXACTLY what you guys described at the end of your reaction, as far as what the pitch meeting for the sequel must’ve been like 😄 czcams.com/video/x01l_jMhjVM/video.html
Yes
Yeah, you’re right! That’s Tuco on Breaking Bad. Also, when he said he heard Gizmo’s singing in the laboratory, I chuckled. Chrystal meth popped into head 😂
Joe Dante said he never wanted to do a sequel, but because Warner wanted one so badly and grilled him about it, he said OK I'll do the movie as long as we get to go crazy and satirise everything!
The musical number with the female Gremlin (Greta) singing, and the scene with her in a wedding dress at the end parody Miss Piggy's scenes in several of the Muppet movies.
Christopher Lee also played Count Dooko in Starwars 2 and 3
Maintenance man working on water fountain was John Astin (original 60's Gomez Addams, father of Goonies actor Sean Astin)
I saw this movie for the first time on VHS and the scene where the movie stops was different, showing those typical flaws of VHS tapes. I got up from the couch to try to get it straightened out and when I got close to the TV the gremlins appeared to laugh in my face. This was awesome!
This is actually good as far as sequels go.
I was lucky enough to get a ticket to a sneak preview the night before it officially opened. I was there along with a bunch of other fans of the first movie, knowing nothing about it other than that it was a sequel. We're watching the movie, thoroughly enjoying the ludicrous chaos of it all, when suddenly the film melts! Of all the luck, first day first showing and the film melts. I mean, what are the odds of...
"Nudie nudie nudie!"
Aargh! They got us! We all fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Which made it all the funnier.
@15:24 If you look closely the mime artist in the center is flipping off the camera XD
21:05 Well... Key and Peele made a sketch about that psycho 😊
Just absolutely manic and I love it. Saw it at the cinema when it came out. I still remember the crowds reaction when the screen went white. Was a big lull and sigh. Then the gremlins popped up doing finger puppets. The crowd roared with laughter. This version is actually slightly different to the one I’ve seen. The other version has John Wayne instead of hulk hogan. And the gremlins are having a shoot out With John Wayne.
that was the version they put on tv and VHS, the version with Hulk Hogan was shown in theaters, until the dvd release restored the theatrical version.
@@RaptorNX01 not in England it wasn’t. Was the John Wayne scene. I didn’t see the hulk hogan version for many years later.
@@MrPerthglory i remember on TV it would always be Hulk Hogan (HBO and/or Cinnemas and Showtime)...i think even the TV edit they used the Hulk Hogan cuz i didnt know about the John Wayne version until i looked it up on CZcams within the last decade or so....and i saw Gremlins in 90-92 as a little kid...must of been a region thing, or that i never remember renting it on VHS as a kid (but im sure i did...hmm)a
Fun Fact:
The woman who plays Mrs. Fudderman was Audrey in the original “Little Shop of Horrors” in 1960.
I love the reference to Lemon Popsicle. "Don't be afraid of Lucia...".
I have a life sized Gremlin Spider Model still in the box it was never opened.
you like CLamp, he's a new york city real estate develepor with his own office tower named after him
A bit of trivia: the delivery guy was on “The Closer” and its spinoff “Major Cases”.