Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
Comedy
Sci-fi
1h 46m
The Gremlins are back, and this time, they've taken total control over the building of a media mogul. (imdb)
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
Comedy
Sci-fi
1h 46m
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Rated 21 Sep 2023
92
84th
This is more than a movie. It's a blast of giddy creative insanity, the kind that's only possible when a director throws caution to the wind and puts his craziest, most random ideas on celluloid, undeterred by studio notes or even conventional filmmaking rules. This is art. God bless Joe Dante.
Rated 21 Sep 2023
Rated 16 Sep 2012
85
92nd
I friggin' love Gremlins 2. There is just so much to enjoy here: making fun of the original, great puppetry, delicious homages, fun cameos and a cartload of wacky shenanigans. If that's not enough, one Gremlin shoots another Gremlin in the goddamn face. In a kids movie! If the government ever lets me out of my containment facility underground and allows me to procreate, my (probably ugly) children will grow up watching Gremlins 2 and become all the more awesome thanks to it.
Rated 16 Sep 2012
Rated 18 Aug 2017
70
65th
Something something Key and Peele. GIVE ME STARS! I'VE EARNED IT!
Rated 18 Aug 2017
Rated 18 Jan 2019
98
99th
Greatest movie ever? No? Really? Are you sure now? Cause...I'm pretty sure it might be. However, if not, for sure than at least, it's the greatest sequel of all-time. Well, that's at least what my nostalgia riddled brain says. So honestly speaking, this might be one of my favorite movies ever. Endlessly quotable, the cartoon natured satire with all the new fantastic gimmick Gremlins, makes it so not even "Gizmo's" wonky walking and dancing could tarnish this cornerstone of my movie loving taste.
Rated 18 Jan 2019
Rated 28 Apr 2009
93
85th
Insanely funny and kind of subversive; Joe Dante basically deconstructs the franchise that made his career.
Rated 28 Apr 2009
Rated 18 Jul 2010
80
80th
Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized.
Rated 18 Jul 2010
Rated 28 Sep 2007
88
87th
Anarchic glee. No restraint, no ridiculous idea left on the drawing board. Plus there are gremlins. Joe Dante is my fucking hero.
Rated 28 Sep 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
84
79th
The sequel to Gremlins focuses on humour more than horror, with the intelligent gremlin voiced by Tony Randall being a highlight.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 01 Dec 2014
89
91st
It's incredible when a sequel manages to simultaneously be a good sequel and a flawless parody of the original.
Rated 01 Dec 2014
Rated 26 May 2019
80
80th
Watching this in 2019 was a real blast. Their adoption of the Police Squad style gags mixed with Dante's love for Looney Tunes makes for an excellent ride that had me smiling constantly. Gizmo's arc is one of my favourite in all of film, the constant cutaways to his incredibly cute torture followed by his ascension to War Hero is comedy gold and too cute to exist. Christopher Lee in the lab is also hilarious. Think I slightly prefer it to the original almost for its bravery alone.
Rated 26 May 2019
Rated 30 Mar 2007
80
68th
More FX, movie references, and general chaos. I always liked that sort of thing
Rated 30 Mar 2007
Rated 07 Aug 2008
77
66th
Entertaining horror comedy with a much higher focus on the comedy than the horror. If you don't enjoy horror movies that much, like myself, then this is quite a good thing. Yes it's downright absurd and silly but who cares when there's so much stupid fun.
Rated 07 Aug 2008
Rated 22 Apr 2010
66
44th
Takes a while to get going, but once it ratchets up the manic we're off. Ignoring the dull characters is easy(ish) as the new and improved plasticised Gremlins take centre stage. With more freedom and space the effects crew throws up a bunch of ideas. Some work, quite a few don't, but at least this movie knows what it is - a canvas for wacky Gremlin fun.
Rated 22 Apr 2010
Rated 19 Jun 2014
73
53rd
I don't think that's how science works.
Rated 19 Jun 2014
Rated 17 Sep 2016
70
58th
Sometimes you like a movie because it's a finely crafted piece of art... and sometimes you like a movie just because it's entertaining.
Rated 17 Sep 2016
Rated 26 Sep 2021
80
74th
While the second movie might not be the classic that the first one was, it is still chock full of shenanigans and mogwai meyham. It's a fun movie, still worth a watch for young and old alike.
Rated 26 Sep 2021
Rated 14 Aug 2007
68
50th
The tried to expand a bit too much on the original in this sequel, but it's still an entertaining flick. Any writer/director who throws in a cameo from Hulk Hogan can't be all bad.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 06 Jan 2019
8
85th
Gremlins made this.
Rated 06 Jan 2019
Rated 12 Aug 2014
90
82nd
I have no objectivity about this movie whatsoever. Every single second of this thing has some gag or joke somewhere in it.
Rated 12 Aug 2014
Rated 14 Aug 2007
55
53rd
The untamed element, oldest of man's mysteries, giver of warmth, destroyer of forests, right now this building is on fire.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 20 Feb 2008
58
15th
I mean you can't go wrong when you can get Gizmo to sign on for a sequel, but as hard as he tries he can't carry this weak cast.
Rated 20 Feb 2008
Rated 27 Sep 2015
70
53rd
So many ideas and references are thrown on the screen, it's almost hard to keep up. Very impressive in scale with rich production values. Too bad made-for-profit sequels aren't this great nowadays.
Rated 27 Sep 2015
Rated 05 Oct 2017
65
60th
(Viewed on 02/01/11): G2 arrived too late to truly matter, but Dante largely fulfilled his objective to craft an oversized studio film that parodies the original, sequels, cable TV and corporate America, providing its own running commentary on 80's excess. It's a chaotic cartoon spectacle with a curiously freewheeling sensibility, and there are many inspired moments of complete lunacy, but it's too much of a good thing, and Dante inevitably struggles to maintain its freight train momentum.
Rated 05 Oct 2017
Rated 25 Dec 2012
76
77th
Forgotten sequel that's actually a lot of fun.
Rated 25 Dec 2012
Rated 30 Jul 2012
4
91st
They completely dropped the horror of the first and went all-out for the comedy, successfully. Plenty of good jokes and wonderful puppets, very good.
Rated 30 Jul 2012
Rated 24 Oct 2007
80
58th
I never thought I'd say this, but Phoebe Cates is totally funny in this.
Rated 24 Oct 2007
Rated 06 Dec 2014
70
40th
In 1978 the cast of Star Wars appeared on the Muppet Show, performing a childish, disco-driven interpretation of the most popular movie at the time. While there is a parallel with Gremlins 2, mostly that's a more pleasant memory than watching this.
Rated 06 Dec 2014
Rated 25 Jan 2007
90
94th
Much much better than it's given credit for. It's just so gleeful!
Rated 25 Jan 2007
Rated 28 Apr 2009
87
75th
Just as good as the first one.
Rated 28 Apr 2009
Rated 21 Nov 2022
80
87th
Man, things were FUN before we had cgi. This is one of the greatest puppetry-movies. I love the part where the intellectual gremlin shoots another gremlin in the face with a handgun, during a talkshow. Funny all the way through to the end credits.
Rated 21 Nov 2022
Rated 27 Oct 2013
65
65th
It's stupid, crazy and highly entertaining. Here they managed to find the right tone, that they couldn't quite reach in the first film. It's an absolute classic!
Rated 27 Oct 2013
Rated 30 Jan 2009
79
39th
This movie was kind of riding the thin line between desired/unnecessary sequel.
Rated 30 Jan 2009
Rated 13 Oct 2020
60
17th
Gremlins 2: The New Batch was pretty terrible as a 30 year old man in 2020. I never watched this movie at the time. If I would have watched it then, I probably would have been pulled in by the product placement throughout the film. 80's movies were great at selling toys to kids. I liked some of the parts where they broke the fourth wall. Phoebe Cates was at the height of her cuteness in this movie but it was squandered because this film is all about the gremlins for better or worse.
Rated 13 Oct 2020
Rated 14 Aug 2007
63
44th
Gremlins 2, if anything, is a film that would rather make fun of itself, never taking itself or its predecessor seriously, merely using the premise as an excuse to spoof anything and everything it can and still remain somewhat cohesive.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 22 Jul 2009
64
37th
Not as good as the first one, it all feels a bit strained.
Rated 22 Jul 2009
Rated 14 Aug 2007
40
17th
The rules from the first movie still apply. Why didn't these people learn?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 15 Oct 2008
75
43rd
This sequel leans much more toward the comedy side than the first, but it's fun to see the many new kinds of Gremlins they've created.
Rated 15 Oct 2008
Rated 14 Aug 2007
49
30th
Nothing spectacular, hardly good, but enough for a lazy Sunday.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 03 Jan 2022
10
99th
My go-to when people ask what my favorite film is. Hilarious, biting, and pays back to what makes the original so great while also just doing its own thing. Which is demolishing the Hollywood blockbuster into a Looney Tunes cloud of smoke.
Rated 03 Jan 2022
Rated 02 Nov 2016
13
31st
Quite unsettling
Rated 02 Nov 2016
Rated 07 Mar 2011
60
12th
Seems someone made a list of all the random stuff they'd like to put in a movie and threw them all in here. Some of it works but a lot of it falls flat and for all the attempts at an anarchic spirit the guiding hand of market research and consumerism is inescapable, making it feel oddly sanitized.
Rated 07 Mar 2011
Rated 04 Aug 2012
80
37th
An unrelenting stream of gags and almost all of them are really great. Good luck seeing them all too, to be honest. The cameos are fantastic.
Rated 04 Aug 2012
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
37th
Gremlins 2 improves upon the comedy of the first Gremlins film. It's much funnier, and less a horror film. It's far more gag-driven, and a lot of the gags are actually quite fun. A lot of them are quite hokey and childish too. Basically, Gremlins 2 is better for kids than the scarier original, but neither of them is really meant to be taken seriously. It's just silly monster movie madness Meh!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 25 Sep 2010
64
39th
Bad but not terrible. It is strange, and oddly unique for a money grab sequel.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
Rated 26 Aug 2015
92
47th
Gremlins 2 takes its mischievous monsters to new heights. After Gizmo, the mogwai star of Gremlins, falls into the clutches of Christopher Lee's obsessive geneticist Dr Catheter, he's installed in a lab in a New York 'smart building', a skyscraper designed to function like a city under one roof. Luckily for him, Billy (Zach Galligan), the boy - but unluckily, before he can get help, further mogwai have budded off from his body. They're quick to start eating after midnight.
Rated 26 Aug 2015
Rated 08 Dec 2008
70
57th
70
Rated 08 Dec 2008
Rated 28 Jun 2012
51
8th
Quite unfunny
Rated 28 Jun 2012
Rated 06 Apr 2009
30
2nd
Even Hulk Hogan couldn't save this ship from sinking.
Rated 06 Apr 2009
Rated 23 Feb 2007
86
63rd
One of my biggest guilty pleasures of all time. I really do like this movie as much as the first movie.
Rated 23 Feb 2007
Rated 22 Jun 2015
79
54th
Someone went and broke the three rules again and now we have a sequel! Gremlins 2: The New Batch isn't quite as dire as the first film, it's pretty cheesy... but in a good way! I think there were a lot of laughs and general goofiness. They brought back 3 of the original characters (4 if you count cute little Gizmo) and added some actual personalities to the Gremlins. They even had a female Gremlin and one that could talk!...
Rated 22 Jun 2015
Rated 30 Nov 2016
70
48th
Memory says it was awesome but needs a rewatch.
Rated 30 Nov 2016
Rated 11 Sep 2020
60
41st
Everything works a bit better than in the first movie, and the various parodies are amusing. Also love how someone gets killed right after saying: "Isn't it always midnight somewhere?".
Rated 11 Sep 2020
Rated 28 Oct 2011
68
2nd
This is a better watch than the original - if for the only reason that it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Rated 28 Oct 2011
Rated 19 Dec 2012
17
9th
Could have been better if it took itself more seriously, but this sequel is about getting cheap laughs from cartoonish human behaviour and misfiring satirical gremlins.
*Preview*: #12#, exp-3*, popcorn, story, 'pt1', R2.
Rated 19 Dec 2012
Rated 24 Mar 2008
50
19th
I don't like Gremlins, maybe because I was brought up on Ghostbusters.
Rated 24 Mar 2008
Rated 22 Mar 2014
55
45th
Some of the gags are hilarious, but the rest of the film is fairly average.
Rated 22 Mar 2014
Rated 14 Feb 2010
90
90th
An oft-overlooked movie, instead of a straight sequel to the more horror based original, Gremlins 2 plays it more for laughs. The humour is clever and often self-referential, even showing a review of the original movie at one point. For some reason though I felt the puppets for the mogwai and gremlins didn't look as good as they did in the original.
Rated 14 Feb 2010
Rated 29 Dec 2014
50
12th
Though the first movie was good, this one has just about the same story. If you've seen the first one then you know exactly what will happen here. Nothing original unfortunately.
Rated 29 Dec 2014
Rated 28 Sep 2016
71
52nd
An inventive and playfully silly sequel.
Rated 28 Sep 2016
Rated 24 Feb 2014
0
10th
I will admit that I have not seen this movie -- and I never will.
Rated 24 Feb 2014
Rated 27 Dec 2012
85
96th
Airplane! + The Muppets + Gremlins = The New Batch
Rated 27 Dec 2012
Rated 16 Apr 2007
38
33rd
You wouldn't believe how much these Gremins resemble our psycho pet poodle. It really is quite worrying. As for the film it just can't match the first, but it's entertaining enough.
Rated 16 Apr 2007
Rated 17 Apr 2009
68
61st
Pretty bad, but entertaining in it's own unique way.
Rated 17 Apr 2009
Rated 20 Sep 2019
88
67th
B+
Rated 20 Sep 2019
Rated 21 Sep 2022
77
67th
Deceptively much different and much better than the original, Gremlins 2 incorporates a lot more overt brutality and horror as well as a lot more absurd comedy. It's a hilarious send up of corporate culture and really is just a ton of fun.
Rated 21 Sep 2022
Rated 17 Jan 2013
83
95th
Probably the best Joe Dante film. It hits all the right ridiculous notes. The best live-action cartoon I've seen.
Rated 17 Jan 2013
Rated 20 Mar 2007
70
61st
It's one joke. I mean, it's a funny joke, but that's all this is.
Rated 20 Mar 2007
Rated 11 Aug 2013
62
26th
I definitely doesn't take itself seriously and that isn't a bad thing. It's not a good movie, but it could have been a whole lot worse.
Rated 11 Aug 2013
Rated 15 Jun 2012
98
95th
The Best Sequel
Rated 15 Jun 2012
Rated 27 Mar 2007
75
44th
Horrible, but dammit I love it.
Rated 27 Mar 2007
Rated 01 Aug 2009
70
75th
This film is incredibly silly, and I think that makes it better than the first. The Hulk Hogan cameo especially was pretty amazing.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
Rated 13 May 2008
63
54th
Better than the first, but still middling.
Rated 13 May 2008
Rated 26 Oct 2019
50
9th
Hecuter+theytakeoverthemoviereellol-hulkhoganlool+barelypaidattention
Rated 26 Oct 2019
Rated 27 Feb 2013
60
25th
Ahahaha, I don't really know what to say. Moose phoneline telegraph Kyoto and every banana in the room to you too!
Rated 27 Feb 2013
Rated 19 Aug 2014
82
85th
At it's best when the gremlins are running amok and dropping pop culture reference gags. You need to buy in to the humour to enjoy it, and I do. Not as good a story as the first, but funnier and arguably more entertaining
Rated 19 Aug 2014
Rated 27 Mar 2007
61
29th
I liked it as a kid. Not really scary. Not really funny. An interesting follow-up film that might distract you if it's on, but likely won't entertain you.
Rated 27 Mar 2007
Rated 15 Aug 2021
70
48th
Works better as a spoof than it does as a sequel. I wouldn't mind it if they hadn't made Gizmo so incompetent
Rated 15 Aug 2021
Rated 04 Mar 2012
55
28th
Little known fact: Tila Tequila had her first film role in this as the female gremlin.
Rated 04 Mar 2012
Rated 18 Oct 2008
65
21st
Smae kind of story, different place and those Gremlins even more annoying.
Rated 18 Oct 2008
Rated 21 Sep 2008
60
10th
Loved this one as a kid. Not sure where we stand now.
Rated 21 Sep 2008
Rated 25 Dec 2022
6
70th
A goofily energetic madcap horror comedy that is basically part parody of the original film, part live action cartoon. It has just enough swing for the fences out there energy to impress that they were willing to risk alienating 1990 audiences with this meta stuff years before meta went mainstream, and that makes up for how it’s mostly a stupid retread of the original plot wise.
Rated 25 Dec 2022
Rated 29 Jun 2007
20
12th
Should have sticked with only the first 1
Rated 29 Jun 2007
Rated 23 Oct 2007
87
70th
An homage to the 7th art, in the silliest way possible. Magnificent.
Rated 23 Oct 2007
Rated 16 Nov 2007
1
11th
point for the joke about the guy wearing the abraham lincoln hat.
Rated 16 Nov 2007
Rated 11 Jan 2011
4
1st
*****SPOILER......this just plain sucks, ok? (sorry) (smiley emoticon)
Rated 11 Jan 2011
Rated 26 Oct 2013
60
69th
The movie doesn't even try to take itself seriously which is kind of a two-edged sword. It's certainly entertaining but consists just of a series of sketches with no bigger idea to hold it all together, and the plot is basically just a re-imagining of the first movie.
Rated 26 Oct 2013
Rated 23 Feb 2010
65
42nd
So bad it's good defines this film. It's a social and political satire of the first film that probably flew over the heads of the general audience.
Rated 23 Feb 2010
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