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Not as good as the first movie

posted 4 years ago by BlissNEsb (108)
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Gremlins 2 has some clever satire and redeemable features: such as the brilliant creature effects and Christopher Lee and John Glover. But having revisited the movie on Netflix a few weekends ago I realized it fails because it has none of the charm, or the fusion of wicked humor, atmosphere and horror elements that made Gremlins 1984 original. In fact, Gremlins has both satire on holiday consumerism, technology phobia etc, AND a story and characters you invest in (thanks to Christopher Columbus.) The Gremlins also looked genuinely evil and impish unlike these creatures, which instead look like scaly Looney Tunes. The movie's also extremely cheesy...I'm going to assume that was the tone they were going for; because the cheesyness didn't feel self-aware enough to be funny. At least that's my impression.

I understand this movie has a cult following. So I'm curious, why do you guys love it?

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16160) 4 years ago

I didn't much care for it. It's too manic and silly for its own good.

[–] modica (4169) 3 years ago

Explain more. Your review is too sparse and short for its own good.

[–] rateater (9229) 3 years ago

i think i like the trapped in a building genre. also phoebe cates and the gremlins stuff seemed clever and fun.

[–] Mulletor (520) 3 years ago

It was frustrating to watch. The characters doing the opposite of logically what they should have been doing the whole movie.