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

This movie actually holds a special place in my heart. I believe when I was really little I saw scenes of this movie with the spider gremlin. Since than, I always used to draw a spider design and I believe I still do. I'm fairly certain I got the design and the spider legs from this movie. Anyway, I'm surprised more people don't like this movie. I will admit that it does have a major fault.I wish they had the gremlins go into more of New York City, but instead they're just confined to this one building. I remember reading Leonard Maltin's review and how funny it was to see him in the actual movie. He was actually friends with Joe Dante and was one of the few people who didn't like the original movie. It's great that he can make fun of himself like this as I admit he's given unfavorable reviews to a lot of great movies. Sometimes the visuals are off, but it's still very creative. It was in fact goofier than the original but I still think it had the spirit. ***

A whole lot of the magic of the original Gremlins is kind of lost here in the sequel. But it is a rather timely movie because John Glover's performance as millionaire with an edifice complex among other kinds of complexes Daniel Clamp.Zach Galligan now a yuppie moved to New York City is reunited with Diz the Mowgli of the first Gremlins. Galligan works for Clamp and the warnings about feeding after midnight and exposure to water are not heeded. As a result the gremlins grow and multiply and take over Clamp Towers.Story is substituted for gags in this sequel and as a result it's funny but it also loses its classic stature. I will say this though, one would dearly like to see these gremlins move into the current residences of the mogul tycoon that Glover is modeled on. I'll bet they could do a better job.

This movie rocks. Oh, I need to say more? Alright then: this movie rocks so hard that Gizmo has mo choice but to do his little bop-dance to it while the twin scientists bop their heads and Christopher Lee does his best glowering of his career (and this man could glower a statue into submission!) This is Joe Dante and his collaborators going into a throw-all-the-kitchen-sinks-at-the-wall approach, and Gremlins 2: the New Batch is even more of a love letter to B movies and Loony Tunes than the first one; like the Evil Dead movies, the sequel finds its auteurs (lets not forget Spielberg too, and this time Rick Baker does fx work) not really wanting to make a sequel (the studio demanded a follow-up to the #4 box-office hit of 1984), but with final cut at his disposal, under Spielberg's supervision, Dante does a delirious cartoon of a live-action movie. When the gremlins wreak havoc it gives havoc a whole other name. Only one scene, when the new 'Stripe' gremlin leaps out of the board in the control room, is actually scary, but no matter.This is a movie to laugh your ass off to, and as a child you find yourself laughing at things but as an adult the jokes come harder, faster, and you get more of them. While Hulk Hogan may be a little dated, hearing a line like the Casablanca joke (making Clamp a lo of Trump and also a lot of Ted Turner), or the Brainy Gremlin voiced by Tony Randall make mention of Susan Sontag, or the references to the musical Dames and what exactly the movie is that the gremlins sneak into the theater that breaks the 4th wall of the whole movie itself (naked volleyball!) makes this a real treat and a half. Hell, just the scene with the Canadian restaurant (with a chocolate Moose cake!) is a laugh riot, but there's many more scenes where the comedy is with gag after gag after gag. And through all of this you got the return of some of the original cast, with Cates and Miller being most welcome, and John Glover giving a legitimately wonderful performance (comic, but with some humanity) in this time when a Trump mogul seemed... innocent by today's standards.Oh, and Gizmo turning into Rambo... I'm slayed.