"You mean a Gremlin that wears glasses, can talk, and sing New York New York? Love It! It's in the movie! NExt!"

I also love the joke when Phoebe Cates starts to go into another tragic monologue like the first.

One of my favorite memories of this film was that, upon first seeing it in the theater, the film broke early in the showing. No big deal. Happened all the time back in the days of real film. But when the film breaks in the 4th wall segment, it made that even funnier because everyone in the audience thought "Here we go again!" It was a great gag made even more amazing by projector issues!

I dont understand how anyone who even remotely enjoyed the first movie couldn't LOVE part 2. Like you said - it's a better version of part 1 in every way. I laugh my ass off every single time I watch this and I'm always blown away by the effects. It must have been an absolute blast making this film. It's a damn shame they don't make em like this anymore.

I highly agree, Gremlins 2 in my eyes is better than the original, but despite that both of them were great, I still think Gremlins 2 is kind of misunderstood and underrated, seriously 6.3 on IMDB? what the hell, the sequel actually works as a smart satire mocking on social entertainment media countlessly breaking the fourth wall, it's a great watch, I like the fact that developers actually decided to take risks and adding enough artistic freedom to the sequel openly mocking the original but still respects it at the same time, you needed some serious pair of balls to pull that off

I recently re-watched this film and I'm 100 percent convinced that the key and peele sketch with the flamboyant "script editor" that went through the writers room and took all the most random ideas into the film is totally how all the weird gremlins came to be. "So you want a girl gremlin with boobies? Guess what, it's in movie. No, it's definitely in the movie!" 😂

I have a weird history with this film. As a young child, I loved it for its whacked out humor and visuals. As an older child and teen, I hated it for being such a radical departure. Now as an adult... I love it more than ever for its clever self-satire, commentary on American culture and sequels, and wild imagination. Sorry to those that dislike it... but I think its better than the original in every capacity. (And I adore the original.)

When I was a kid, I LOVED this movie. I hadn’t even seen the first one. I watched it so often that the tape broke. My poor grandmother was probably SO sick of watching it. She probably shuddered every time she heard the theme music. May she Rest In Peace, what a patient woman! Seriously, I haven’t seen this movie in years but I remember every single bit of it from watching it over and over as a kid. I was born in 1987 so I missed the first one. I saw it later, as an adult, but it just couldn’t top my love of the second. This movie will always be nostalgic for me. Gremlins 2, the brave little toaster, and all dogs go to heaven. My top 3 favorite movies as a kid that I watched over and over until the VHS broke. 😂

Thing is, Gremlins has become a part of pop culture more so than Dick Tracey could even dream of. So it probably made its money back through the year with massive profit margins.

The best of the callbacks is the story about getting flashed by a guy that looked like Abraham Lincoln on Presidents' Day, echoing the horrifying Christmas tragedy from the first movie.

Tony Randall being the voice of a Gremlin is pure insane genius.

I believe this movie would not have been possible without input from Star Magic Jackson JR...

I'd shown the movie to a couple friends of mine. When the one saw "Rambo Giz," he'd stared at the TV, dumbfounded, and then shook his head in quizzical dismay and said, "Dude! That was both kick-ass and adorable, at the same time!"

Gremlins 2, Terminator 2, and Aliens. The three greatest 80s movie sequels. (Edit: 80s movie sequels = sequels to 80s movies. Stop 'correcting' me that T2 and Gremlins 2 came out in the 90s. I know! I've always known! This comment is ruining my life)

God I used to watch this all the time on VHS when I was waaaaaay younger, have no idea it was poorly received back in the day! Needless to say I adored this film when I was a small boy and even to this day!

FUN FACT: Clamp's end-of-the-world broadcast is based on an actual tape that Ted Turner has in case we are about to face armageddon.

As a kid growing up watching both Gremlins. The spider Gremlin scene was my favorite because of the crazy wild solo and now as an adult(weird saying that as I'm 19) finding out one of my favorite Slayer solos is in one of my favorite childhood movie makes me wanna watch the movie now. Thank you for making this video!

I just saw this in a theater the other night and not only was it packed but the audience was totally grateful. Women "aw'd" at Gizmo constantly, people laughed at all the right (and wrong) wrong moments, applause and appreciation in every aspect. So refreshing to see a sequel given the attention it deserves, especially this one!

RIP, Christopher Lee

I have a prequel idea for a third Gremlins movie: Set around WW2, a bunch of explorers go try to find the mythical Shangri-La, but instead they find an underground society of Mogwais. They capture a bunch of them, but then one of them gets to eat after midnight and turns into a ferocious Gremlin who kills all the explorers and then it rains, causing him to multiply to turn into a huge army of Gremlins and they rampage the Mogwai village, committing a small-scale genocide. One Mogwai, who will turn out to be Gizmo, manages to survive and runs away from the Gremlins coming after him, until the sun rises and thus kills all the Gremlins, while Gizmo hides from the light. Then Gizmo is later discovered and picked up by a young Mr. Wing, who decides to take care of him and learns all the rules: first he discovers that Mogwais multiply if they're wet, and then tragically, he learns how they can turn into Gremlins and he and his family struggle and prevent a Gremlin outbreak, but unfortunately Wing is left without an eye. In the third act, some survived Gizmo clones arrive at an airport and there they come aboard various USA aircrafts and planes causing various kinds of mayhem when transformed into Gremlins, thus spawining the whole legend on the Gremlins and the Looney Tunes shorts about them, then the movie ends with Mr. Wing moving in America with Gizmo or something. ...Any thoughts? I think making a prequel would be better than continuing from the second movie or... Urgh... REMAKING the original...

damn, the ginger twin scientist are in terminator 2 !

The sad part is the current major studios are, as ever, so heavily focused on opening weekends that even if a movie like this goes on to make a sizable profit in DVD sales and home rentals, it's still considered a "flop" because it didn't hit number 1 on opening day - and is, therefore, a dead property. Whereas terrible movies that get released and have big opening weekends always get sequels now, even if they barely manage to eek out a profit through to retail sales and home rental. And then the studios wonder why so many of them are going bankrupt.

it tragic that if gremlins get a third movie that it would more likely be a remake than a sequal and the gremlins will be CGI

Gremlins 2 is super underrated! Love this film and can't wait for 3!

While I love the first movie, I've always preferred the sequel. Such a fun, funny, brilliant flick!

Gremlins 2 is a brilliant movie. I love the physical creature effects. No CGI, just a little movie magic. That's what made all these older movies so amazing. Also, a very good video! You did your research and it was interesting! I had no idea about all the little cameos in the movie!

Gremlins 2 is a powerhouse of a film. So much happens and so much goes on on-screen, it's enjoyably exhausting.

I loved it. Loved the satire, the silliness, and the creative freedom.

Hell yeah Slayer! One of my first albums.

Star Magic Jackson JR nailed it!

This movie could never be made today. Its so well written and clever as hell. I love it. It was ahead of its time.

10:36 So back then, on a whim, i could choose to go to the cinema to watch a new movie and i could choose from: Another 48 Hours Total Recall Back To The Future 3 Gremlins 2 Pretty Woman Cadillac Man TMNT (.... maybe Bird on a Wire and i've already seen Milo and Otis 20x by that point.) While today my choices are: Vacation Transporter 10 We Are Your Friends Fantastic Four

I love this film! They used to show it on TV all the time. Kinda scary for a kid but all the different scenes, costumes, and tangents made it so entertaining!

I loved this film ever since I was child, and with the dante backstory I love it even more :D

I know I'm late to the party on this but FINALLY someone who reviewed this movie like it should be reviewed. I get so sick of people saying "It wasn't like the original." Well, it wasn't supposed to be. The damn movie starts out with a Bugs and Daffy sequence - that told you exactly where this movie was going. I heard they might remake Gremlins, I really don't care either way. Go ahead and remake it. But don't touch The New Batch. It's a movie that knows exactly what it is and that's what make it awesome, IMO, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is right up there with comedies like Airplane, The Naked Gun and Dumb & Dumber. Where else do you have a movie with a funny computer voice? "Fire, man's greatest mystery, giver of warmth, destroyer of forest, this building is on fire." One of the most classic lines in movie history.

This might be the only case of setting a sequel to an 80s film in the big city and having it pay off. (Compare with Beastmaster 2, for example.)

I never got why this movie got so much hate. I was 8 when it came out and I loved this flick from day one! Sure, its a lot different than the first but in its own way I find it superior. And honestly, there were some genuinely scary scenes in both gremlin movies but the second had a more menacing but still light-hearted tone (that spider gremlin gave me nightmares for YEARS afterword). I really dig what you're doing uploader! These are very informative and entertaining, keep it up sir!!!!

I don't know if the same is true in the US, but here in the UK Gremlins 2 became one of those films that TV channels show all the time on bank holiday weekends so it has a pretty solid following whilst barely anyone remembers Dick Tracy even existed.

"I'm sorry. Let me introduce myself. Hi y'all! My name is Star Magic Jackson Jr. - I'm the Hollywood sequel doctor. So, studio just brings me in to oversee things when they 'bout to drop a douce."

I always preferred this to the first one; it's like Evil Dead 2, where it's essentially the same concept but just turned up to 11 and taking the piss out of everything including itself.

Well, it is now *twenty-five* *years* since _Gremlins_ _2_ first came out. Time for a 25th-Anniversary Special Edition Blu-Ray and DVD. ;D

One of my favorite sequels right along Aliens and Predator 2.

i love all the cameos and inside jokes.

One of my favorite effects films of all time. I love the puppets and I would have loved to be able to have worked on it.

Gremlins 2 is a classic masterpiece in my mind. Nostalgia is king for me, though. Nice video review. I learned a lot about the making of this flick. Very informative and interesting. I subscribed to your channel. Good stuff - keep em coming.

Creativity goes a long way, this movie is a very underrated sequel thanks for sharing the gospel!

I saw this batshit crazy flick in the theater!! The projector gag is probably my favorite cinematic experience of my childhood

Incredible movie, I find it more memorable than the original. I thought at first that was due to the fact of it being the first movie my parrents rented for me when I was a kid, but the variety of Gremlin designs is what I think did it for me. I mean those puppets and creature effects are masterful.

the first was absurd, but it's sequel RIDICULOUS. if there is indeed a line, this one crossed it. repeatedly. (Hulk Hogan addressing the audience? the Batman symbol? craziness.)

You forgot the Bugs Bunny opening!

The redhead in glasses was SO fucking hot. Never realised this as a kid, hah, it was all about Phoebe Cates then. Really cool youtube channel btw!

Man, I have got to watch this movie again. Its really amazing. Robert Picardo being molested by the Smurfette gremlin, the President's Day story, "New York New York"...this was the perfect follow up. It made fun of the original in a totally aware sense but showed it a lot of respect too. And it's just hilarious with great creature effects. It's kind of like what Ghostbusters 2 was trying to be but wasn't.

I would kill to see a third Gremlins film. My idea would be to see the little monsters cause a massive riot throughout Warner Bros studios. The amount of creativity, homages and cameos would go through the freakin' roof! This kind of potential should never go to waste.

Nice to see someone else that likes this movie more than the first. I love this damn movie so much

I loved this film when I first saw it in the theatre. I was really in to heavy metal/thrash music at the time, so I was absolutely shocked when Slayer came on. I think I started headbanging in the theatre. Great series, man. I just found you. Subbed for sure.

The bit I couldn't get over was when Phoebe Cates did a parody of the story of the death of her father from the first film. What were the scriptwriters thinking?

There is nothing bad about Gremlins 2. It is the most perfect work of art in human history.

My favorite was part was when the smart Gremlin shoots the other one, but I can't figure out where he got the gun? Did he kill a security guard or something? That scene was too funny.

This movie is too high class for this channel. One of the funniest films ever made. Those little monsters are an inspiration. Having Lee in the film but not playing Dracula, there is a twist. 5:01 But no (seriously, that is not Daffy. That gremlin is just a loon).

I LOVED this movie as a kid. My Dad has great movie taste, so between the ages of 2 and about 12, Instead of whatever was coming out in cinemas those years, he would show me things like Gremlins 1 & 2, Flight of the Navigator, Predator, Alien, The Thing, The Fly etc etc Currently going through your ''Exploring Series'' playlist, oldest to newest, and it is brilliant! You have a great way of dissecting this stuff :)

This review is right on the money. Not only is Gremlins 2 a better film than Gremlins 1 (which i also love), but it's most likely the best film Joe Dante ever made!

Brilliant work! Love the trivia and intelligent commentary.

I see this film as probably the closest thing to a live action cartoon. The Looney Tunes vibe is so prevalent in this film! I also think Gremlins 2 is better than the first one down to its creative nature. I think this one was on television more than the first one as well.

This was in heavy rotation on cable in the 90s; and the master-tape-fouling-and-snow gag fooled me two or three times. I didn't realize there was a cinefilm version until I saw it again recently.

it would be cool if they made a new gremlins 3 with practical and stop motion being used as a gimmick

This is the movie equivalent of "throwing the kitchen sink"...and coming up with good results

When I was little I went to Ireland for summer holidays, Irish Ferries who we travelled with had a children's cinima where we's go watch films. They played Gremlins 2 every time. whether leaving Rosslair or Fishguard, it was always that film and everyone loved watching it. It like tradition to watch it when you where on the boat lol

An underrated sequel that really deserves more attention for how creative and crazy it is. A shame Chris Columbus (writer of the original) seems to hate it.

i had forgotten all about the gremlins! they were both great movies in my opinion. as a kid we even named a dog after gizmo the cute little bastard.

You called the character of "Grandpa Fred" an homage to Grandpa Munster, and the horror hosts. Al Lewis actually was a horror host, as Grandpa for Super Scary Saturday on TBS.

6:50 Robert Picardo was also the main villain in Joe Dante's "The Howling" and would go on to appear in "Matinee" as well.

This movie also pokes fun the scene from the first Gremlins where Phoebe Cates charecter explains why she hates Christmas .

this is one of the greatest movies I watched in my life... also, RIP Christopher Lee, RIP

Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis, Spielberg, and George Lucas... damnnnn... they were good in the 80's

Just wanted to send a very sincere thank you for making these incredibly entertaining videos. Keep doing what you do bro. Merry Christmas

Great video! This is what I've been thinking about this film for *years* and I never understood why it didn't have more success at the time, well at least it's found itself a new audience.

I remember loving this far more than the original. Haven't seen it in years but this has inspired me to re-seek it out.

You're my hero. Best sequel ever.

That one moment that always got me no matter how many times I had seen it was when the elevator stalls, the girl tells the computer to sound the alarm, and a bunch of gremlins proceed to make obnoxious alarm noises.

Robert Prosky was Grandpa Fred. You should have included him. He was a major character. Also, he was the actor that played Will Darnell in Christine.

I"ve never heard of anyone saying Gremlins 2 is a bad movie... or maybe I don't understand the name of this KZfaq channel. I'm liking the videos I've seen so far, though!

One of my favorite movies.

An absolutely BRILLIANT analysis on why Gremlins 2 is awesome. Well done sir. This video is actually a lot better than some official making of docs I've seen on the film. Very informative and you totally understand the film and what Dante was trying to do. It really is a shame it wasn't successful at the box office but I am very glad it has become loved over the years, I love it more than the first and share your sentiments exactly. Bravo! Fantastic video.

Great review, man! Your conclusion especially hits the nail on the head. May time do this wonderfully zany movie the justice it deserves! 👍

I loved this movie, as much as the original! I just wished I have a copy of this film right now. My favorite scene in this movie was when the smart gremlin shot the childish gremlin for being annoying and didn't even care about what he done. I wish there was more characters like that in movies.

Great Episode! I just wish these could come more often.

Kindof amazing that there wasn't an '80s cartoon of Gremlins The New Batch is a film I enjoy more and more as time passes, not sure why.

Love ya, Cecil! This is a more-praising review than Leonard Maltin's review - a cast member of this very film!

"Gremlins 2 was better in every way." I agree. Also, you forgot to mention how they deliberately broke every rule of making sequels to parody sequels in general.

I still think the first Gremlins is the best, though I really do like the sequel as well.

I’m born in 1985 & Gremlins 2 is my all time favorite(better than part 1 which I didn’t even know existed until recently) & will be until the death of me🔥THE BRAINY GREMLIN IS MY FAVORITE + the elevator commentary/humor throughout the movie is soooo underrated 🗣😂😂

I know this comment is incredibly late, but the spider gremlin transformation scene is a homage to the thing, it even has the sound effect!

One of my favorite movies of all time!!! I love this movie ever since I was a kid! I actually prefer this one more so than the 1st! I'm surprised you skipped over the joke on the whole tragic back-story for the girl... in the 1st her dad dying trying to climb down the chimney and here they were setting something up with Lincoln but they cut her off! XD You know they're releasing highly detailed action figures of the Gremlins from this movie now! They just came out with the Spider one a few weeks back!!?

"Gremlins 2: The New Batch" is the best Gremlins sequel Joe Dante ever did. In the second one Rick Baker's Gremlin and Mogwai effects are 200X twice as better than the first one. I think people should make "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" on Nintendo DS to 3DS games and Nintendo Wii games; they should make Gizmo, Daffy, Lenny George, and Mohawk new movie plush doll puppets as mogwais and gremlins; and make two or three of "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" movie comic books.

Really good ! One of the best commentary on a movie I have heard.

Robert Picardo (along with Dick Miller) is in almost every Joe Dante film, not just The Burbs and Innerspace. He also appears in The Howling, Explorers, Matinee, Looney Tunes back In Action, and Small Soldiers. How he wasn't in Gremlins 1 I don't know.

I actually saw Gremlins 2 before watching the original. Both movies are great, but I still have to say that The New Batch is more enjoyable. The original movie is much darker and tries to be a horror-comedy. The New Batch actually IS a horror-comedy and one of the best of its kind too ;)

Great review!

I did not remember much of this movie because I had watched it as a child, so I decided to watch it again. It aws way better than I remembered, I laughed so hard and was amazed by all the jokes and creativity. So good!!

Your exploring features are truly amazing. Keep up the awesome work.