Such a frustrating disappointment

Beautiful, moving film.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

I grew up with the GREMLINS films & absolutely love these films as I've watched them hundreds of times on my old double feature video!!! As much as i love Gremlins '84 my favourite of the two is Gremlins 2:The New Batch (1990) i just dig the whole new surroundings such as the big New York City high tech building that all the trouble happens in & the new look each GREMLIN has & that the legendary DICK MILLER is back in a bigger part & the FX are even greater this time & the whole atmosphere is fun & wacky but still with scares & only the BRILLIANT JOE DANTE can mix it up this good & make it great!!! A real childhood classic of mine that makes great late night entertainment That's full of fun & so rewatchable

Better then Gremlins 1 . Super funny. My favourite part is when the gremlin could talk.

Six years after the events of the first "Gremlins", Gizmo and Mr. Wing are still living in their small shop located in New York. One day, some money hungry executives for Clamp Industries try and convince Wing that his store needs to be demolished in order to make room for the gigantic Clamp Office Building that is being prepared to be built. A few months later, Mr. Wing passes away and Gizmo is now left out on the streets, the real film begins when he is captured by two scientists for Clamp Industries. Meanwhile, Billy and Kate from the first film are now engaged and just happened to be living in New York where Billy works for Clamp. One thing leads to another and Billy finds Gizmo in the lab. Another thing leads to another thing and bada-bing-bada-boom, Gremlins! Except this time, the gremlins are running loose inside of a twenty story office building. And now they're are new gremlins to run amuck, like the spider gremlin, the bat gremlin, the brain gremlin, the female gremlin, the electric gremlin, the singing gremlins, the trench coat gremlins and the greatest screen villain of all time...the vegetable gremlin. "Gremlins 2 The New Batch" is a fun sequel, and in places it's somewhat of a parody of the original, which is an interesting move that idea brings in plenty of jokes. But where the film fails is it just has too many ideas and jokes going on for it to just focus on the plot for a second. What would have been nice is a little more character development between Billy and Kate, but no we have to have the gremlins sing "New York, New York" in a pointless musical number. It's all incredibly fun, but when these endless sequences of in joke after in joke keep going on, you can't help but get the feeling that the plot is just sitting around, waiting to move on.All in all, "Gremlins 2 The New Batch" isn't really a bad film at all. It has interesting ideas and a decent plot, but it feels too manic for it's own good. What the film needs is a nice trim around the edges to cut out some of the fattier areas of it-specifically the endless gremlin scenes. I know it's called gremlins, but gees, we don't need that many.

I can't help but think that Joe Dante took on "Gremlins 2" so that he could poke fun at . . . well, pretty much everything. Like it's all one big prank. Not only does he put Gizmo through hell (again), but there are joking shots taken at Warner Bros., Leonard Maltin, a cartoonishly draconian corporate culture, and even the 3 Mogwai rules get made fun of. I'm pretty sure this is set in a cutting-edge high-rise just so Dante can delight in trashing the hell out of it.It's probably not as memorable as the first, but I do like a lot of the gags herein. Great mischievous sense of humor (*the theater hijacking was cute). I can see why they never went ahead with a third movie; when Rambo Gizmo takes on a tarantula Gremlin, that's probably as far as you can take this. Which isn't a bad thing; at least there's no more female Gremlin (shudder).7/10