Hey Shanelle. Did you notice that when the Gremlins stopped the movie, they replaced it with old timey pornography? They laugh, and one says, "dirty, dirty, dirty," then they play a movie with a bunch of naked ladies frolicking 😅😂🤣☠️
That Lalique "Soliel" sounds delicious, if a woman was wearing that I'd probably want to eat her. That came out wrong but you get what I mean, eat like a caramel glazed donut you would have with your morning coffee sweetened with a spoonful of sugar and almond milk.
@@doughbafett Maybe... But then again, the Bat Gremlin's transformation is accompanied by very stereotypical vampire music and has a prominent reaction shot with the camera zooming in on Christopher Lee's face.
Joe Dante didn't want to do another Gremlins movie, but when he finally accepted the job he did all he could to take the piss out of the whole concept. This resulted in one of the most outrageous sequels ever made..
I saw this in a theater when it came out, and that gag with the broken projector absolutely slayed. Everybody fell for it when they faked the film breaking and the audience all started booing... and then the gremlins appeared. Too bad the joke falls pretty flat watching it at home.
Yeah, I saw it at a sneak preview screening a few weeks before it officially opened. We all thought the reel actually broke and people started booing. Once the gremlin silhouettes showed up on the screen, we all looked back and saw the projector waiving a gremlin cutout and playing along with the gag.
The janitor who accidentally gets gizmo wet is played by John Astin, Gomez Addams from the Addams family tv show and adoptive father of Sean Astin(the Goonies, Rudy, Lord of the Rings)
In addition to the reel and VCR breaks built into the film, I also remember the novelization had a break as well, where the gremlins took the writer hostage. :)
Honestly I love this movie, I also love that they mocked the Stupid “Dad Died coming down the Chimney” storyline. If you watch that scene in this movie you see the actor who plays Billy Breaking as Kate’s talking about Abraham Lincoln. I enjoy how this is essentially a parody of the first movie
@@ShanelleRiccio I disagree. That moment in the first movie brought some depth to Pheobe's character. It wasn't played for laughs. Taking a serious moment from the first film and playing it for laughs is just disrespectful.
MST3K had the best response to the nitpicking questions: "if you're wondering how they eat and breathe, and other science facts. Just repeat to yourself 'it's just a show, I should really just relax' "
I think there are more people who love this one more than is widely known! I do! There were people not enjoying the 'Looney Tunes"-ishness of it all, which is their loss.
What makes you think more people enjoy the first? I think you hear about the first more because it more easily fits into the category of a "Christmas movie" and this one is not so easy to lock down but I think this one is just as discussed if not more so. It's hardly dumb. The script is very tightly plotted and there's nary a wasted moment that doesn't come into play in some way. It's silly, not dumb.
The song playing while Gizmo was getting tied up by the gremlin was "Surprise, You're Dead!" by the band Faith No More. Amazing band. Pretty great soundtrack considering the movie. Got some Slayer in there, too.
The theme for Spike aka Spider Gremlins is Angel of Death by Slayer. An interesting fact about the song is Columbia Records who was the distributor for Def Jam, slayers label, refused to release the album because Angel of Death is about Dr. josef Mengele, the Nazi scientist who performed experiments on living people in the concentration camps. the album was eventually released by Geffen records but recieved pretty much no radio airplay. Yet it still enter the billboard top 200 and was certified gold.
9:11 You may recognise the twins as the security guard in 'Teminator 2', I'm told they are also in 'Good Morning, Vietnam'. This film is brilliantly meta and making fun of the first one. It's also 'extra' in so many ways!
"You sat still for too long! Move around, and it'll turn back on." Silly, sarcastic gag then -- reality today. Anyone else ever been in a public restroom stall when the lights automatically shut off?
He was not referring to Ferby when he said “dolls with suction cups”. After the first Gremlins movie they actually made Gizmo plush dolls with suction cups for car window. I remember seeing people’s cars with Gizmos but my dad didn’t want to get one for ours. 😔
This movie is just hilarious with its self aware mentality. Tony Randall steals every scene he voices😁. The movie's composer is Jerry Goldsmith, who has a cameo in the food court scene...he's the guy with the white hair. The horror host was modeled after Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis.
4 people who were in this movie were also on Star Trek DS9: 1. Mr. Futterman (Dick Miller) was a Sanctuary District Guard in the DS9 2-parter "Past Tense" 2. Forster(Robert Picardo) was Dr. Zimmerman in "Dr. Bashir, I Presume?" 3. Mr. Clamp (John Glover) was Verad in "Invasive Procedures" 4. The janitor that Forster fired for taking a drink from a water fountain(Henry Gibson) was Nilva in "Profit and Lace"
There is a novelization written after the first movie that give some lore for the Mogwai in the opening and shows us how intelligent Gizmo (and by proxy the others) actually are. They were created by an alien race to be pets but didn’t turn out right. Gizmo is good because he has a special recessive gene that gives him the intended calm demeanor. He also knows what would happen if he transformed and that he would lose that gene. Also, for the nostalgia theme park; go look up Defunctland’s VR project ;)
I bought the novelization book when this movie came out in theaters. The “Brain” Gremlin suddenly took over one of the book’s chapters, saying the author was tied up at the moment - literally! He talked for a few pages until he had to leave, as the author had untied himself, taken back control of the book, and the story continued.
It's happened in other series. Return of the Killer Tomatoes. Beastmaster 2. Gremlins 2 is definitely the most high profile and biggest budgeted example I can think of though.
Joe Dante really didn't want to do a sequel, but because the first Gremlins was such a big hit the studio kept pestering him. So five years later, he eventually agrees to give them the sequel they want, provided he has free reign to do basically whatever he liked. And he.. really ran with that. Hence the glorious insanity.
Gremlins 2 is really a sequel that you can commit to. I’m still shocked we haven’t gotten a G3 yet….mad. This is a parody but it doesn’t skimp on the legitimate script set ups and payoffs which I really appreciate, it may be gag upon gag upon gag but you never feel it loosing any thread and those payoffs are priceless. Joe Dante could’ve just took the money and made an unimaginative mess but he actually put work into it. That guy is a legend.
@@Blizzard0fHope Animatronics are also a matter of artistry. There were more masters back then like Stan Winston (The Thing, Terminator, Aliens, Predator, Jurassic Park, etc...).
Talk about contrasting personality types the fact that the Brainy gremlin is voiced by Tony Randall continues to make laugh to this day. A long way from Felix Unger
Along with Gette Wattanabe who played Mr. Katsuji (guy with camera), the actress who played Marla (Haviland Morris) was also in Sixteen Candles as Jake’s girlfriend Caroline and Farmer Ted’s first time.
As a Canadian, I'm offended by their representation of our restaurants. They forgot to show our hockey stick shaped maple fountains behind the Mountie serving the moose head.
the suctioncup dolls wasn't a furby reference. there were millions of suction cup gizmo and gremlins in car windows in the eighties. my mom had one. the first toy I gave to my child was a stuffed gizmo.
Love this one so much more than the first. The cast is amazing, the gremlin morphs are wild (Electric Gremlin FTW!), and it is beyond crazy! It wouldn't be quite as good if it couldn't poke fun at the first though. The meta-humor and reference jokes kill me.
Director Joe Dante has a stock company of actors you will see in most of his films. He also uses composer Jerry Goldsmith for the music in all his movies. Goldsmith makes a cameo in this movie. He is the white haired man saying "What's going on here, did she say Rats" when the gremlins are coming out of the candy containers.
"Is this a play on Trump? Clamp?" Correct! He was supposed to be an amalgamation of both Trump and Ted Turner. John Glover seems like too nice a person to play either of those two guys.
Keye Luke, the actor who played Mr. Wing, had been acting in Hollywood since the 1930s and they still had to put make-up on him to make him look older. He was quite the revolutionary actor for his time, having major acting gigs as a Chinese-American and NOT being portrayed as a villain.
About the "Broken film" scene - they did another version for the video release of the movie. In it you get "broken video tape" effects and flip around on TV channels a little with the Gremlins misbehaving themselves until they get put back on track by John Wayne.
I can't believe Phoebe Cates only 19 acting credits, her last film was 20 years ago. She's been in some great ones though, "Drop Dead Fred", "Date With an Angel" and "Princess Caraboo", "Bright Lights, Big City".
One of my all time favorite movies. My favorite jokes are the ones I didn't get the first time around, such as when Christopher Lee asks the twins how the cloning experiments are coming. XD
16:18 I put a ketchup packet into a microwave once because I thought it warm up the ketchup inside. But apparently those packets have metal of some sort because electric bolts started zapping inside my microwave lol.
I remember that when this came out the guys who made it said that they basically took every criticism the first movie got and instead of trying to fix them they doubled down and tried to make everything way more ridiculous and piss the critics off.
@@xx-ug9hn Not quite. Dante didn't want to make the sequel, but the studio started on it anyway. 5 years later, they still didn't have a director, so they came crawling back to Dante, who agreed on the condition that he got triple the budget of the original and complete creative control. The rest is glorious history.
I love this movie. I saw it in theater when I was 6 and the audience was like crazy, specially in the segment were they destroy the film. I also loved the Hulkster cameo, mostly because I was probably the only WWF/WWE fan in my country back then (Argentina) This movie was ahead of it's time.
Others already wrote how Joe Dante only agreed to make the movie when they allowed him to go all out and pretty much riff the first one. The brilliant thing is that for the Gremlins this totally works, because the way those mischievous little pricks already behaved in the first movie.
Joe Dante would only do this sequel if Warner Bros. gave him final cut and complete creative control, which they did, and we got this absolute satirical batshit crazy masterpiece of a film! I’m so glad I saw this in the theater when it came out. I was 9, and my mom picked my sister and I up from an awful day care summer day camp (she’d lost her job that day, and said to hell with it - we’re going to the movies). Seeing this in the theater as a kid was amazing and is a fond childhood moviegoing memory.
I always figured that Gizmo had the benefit of time and experience on his side. He was old enough that he had learned empathy and to behave himself in order to avoid really negative consequences while the new ones are new and therefore have not.
This was the second film I ever saw in theaters (the first being Dick Tracy). I remember having seen most of the first Gremlins on television so I was really wanting to see it in theaters after falling in love with the theater experience as an 8 year old; the darken room, the overly buttered popcorn, and the GIGANTIC screen compared to our 25" or so TV. The most telling I remembered was the reaction from my younger brother. He sat glued to the scene during this whole film as opposed to being bored during the Dick Tracy film. As an adult, yeah this movie is way more fun that it really has any right to be.
I was going to say the same thing. Only a few seconds in the microwave but when that plate started sparking, holy crap I never moved so fast before, lol
The hats the women wear in the movie reminds me of the wardrobe from “Brazil”. Yes I’m mentioning that movie again, it’s underrated and I’d love to see her reaction to the film.
One additional fun Fact Shanelle, is that the actor who voiced the "Sexy Female Gremlin" is the same actor that voices Miss Piggy in the Muppets. You can really hear it when she first jumps on the suit, and exclaims, "Oh why won't you just commit already?" lol
I've been wanting to see your reaction to this one. I remember you liking the first one (aside from the chimney thing). I also got the impression that you appreciated the self aware/4th wall kind of moments in movies, so I figured this one would be a good choice for you! Glad you enjoyed it!
The mogwai have an insane origin in the novelization of the first movie. They’re genetic creations by an alien scientist. They were meant to be dispersed throughout the galaxy promoting peace, which is why they look cute. Most of them being evil and their ability to turn into gremlins are defects. Only one in every 10k or 100k or something are good, and Gizmo is one of those. That Mohawk trivia was a bit simplified. He’s a reincarnation of Stripe and he remembers Gizmo killing him, hence why he’s mostly torturing him while the others cause havoc There’s gonna be an animated prequel show about Gizmo meeting a young Mr Wing
The score was composed by the late, great Oscar-Winning and multiple Academy Award nominee Jerry Goldsmith. When he passed back in 2004, the movie industry suffered such an incalculable loss. He was truly one-of-a-kind.
Love her videos. The look on her face watching Gremlins 2 play out perfectly sums up why this flick is so great (and superior to the OG in my opinion, though they really are very different films with different aims). But her face says it all: just joy. Like with the old WB toons it references, G2 has the power to make you let your guard down and just be thrilled as it all bounces along. Lots of movies are fun, but Gremlins 2 *IS* fun. Distilled and pure.
OMG that ride must have been EVERYTHING. loved your reaction! The note on the Looney Tunes was really smart, I remember when this came out so much time had passed since the original there was all this meta stuff to pull from years reactions to that first one, it was very cool.
This one was the first "Gremins"movie I ever saw. Had a copy recorded from TV, took years before I saw the full film(tv version had some parts missing). The names of the New Batch are: George(the ugly one), Lenny(the goofy one with buck teeth(these two named after the characters from "Of Mice and Men"), Daffy(the psycho one)and Mohawk(Word of God says Stripe reincarnated). The novelization of the first book did explain why Gizmo was the best of the gremlins. The Mogwai were created by alien scientists to be the perfect pet and be given as gifts of goodwill to people across the universe, but only one in a thousand were kind and sweet like Gizmo, while the rest were maniacally destructive(along with their other defects, such as their allergy to light and multiplication with water). 18:27, my favourite scene, especially the gremlin going "Bwah bwah bwah"and mocking his voice, XD! Well, now you know why she hates that Flasher Gremlin. Lmao, love that ending.
Stripe and Mowhawk are voiced by Frank Welker- most famous for voicing Freddy in Scooby Doo. He does a ton of voice over work. He is the cave of wonder voice in Aladdin. He also voiced Claw in Inspector gadget and was on Muppet Babies with Howie Mandel. They voiced the male and female twins, Skeeter and Scooter. Frank also voiced the troll in Cat's Eye, he Vs. Drew Berrymore and her cat with a tiny sword!
I didn't realize until you mentioned it, but yeah, when I saw this on video, the part where it "breaks" was done like when a VHS tape messes up, and the shadow puppet part was done on a screen of static TV "snow" or something like that.
I don't know if you have seen "Breaking Bad," but the messenger that whistles Gizmo's theme played Tuco! Also, Jonathan Banks who played Mike was in the first movie as a deputy! I love your channel and keep up the good work.
Gizmo's special because he has a sense of responsibility. I don't know that he _can't_ transform, but he _won't_ because he refuses to eat after midnight.
The new Gremlins have been given names by fans and were considered as reincarnation of Gremlins from the first movie. Daffy (named after Daffy Duck) is a reincarnation of the Gremlin killed in the blender which could explain his craziness. George and Lenny are named the main characters from 'Of Mice and Men'. George is a reincarnation of the Gremlin that was killed in the microwave which could explains how he recognises the microwave. Not sure which Gremlin Lenny is a reincarnation of though. Mowhawk is definitely a reincarnation of Stripe hence the stripe of white fur on his head.
To this day, every time I walk by 101 Park Avenue, I reflexively think of it as "The Clamp Building." And having been IN the building multiple times, it's downright surreal. The lobby looks like the Clamp lobby, complete with the same colors and materials.... But at 1/10th the size of the movie version (and with no second level).
I remember seeing the home video version first where it's the Gremlins changing the channel and movie on you, and then being so surprised to hear that my friend who had seen it in theaters said there was a scene where Hulk Hogan showed up. I finally saw the Hulk Hogan version when the movie came to cable.
HBO Max has an animated Gremlins tv series called "Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai". The series is a prequel to the first movie and is set in 1920s Shanghai, China. The story revolves around a boy named Sam, who later becomes the grandfather to the person who sells Billy's father Gizmo.
The talking Gremlin says on the phone he is advising his clients to put all their money into shot guns and canned goods, To this day I quote that line every chance I get
@@abehernandez9359 T2 is amazing, and honestly one of my favourite films ever, but it doesn't have the sheer "Let's rip the first film apart" balls of Gremlins 2.
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COOL REACTIONS Pretty Lady! This Movie always has me TRIPPING over the "Intelligent Gremlins" LMFAO
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What a woman 😍
Hey Shanelle. Did you notice that when the Gremlins stopped the movie, they replaced it with old timey pornography? They laugh, and one says, "dirty, dirty, dirty," then they play a movie with a bunch of naked ladies frolicking 😅😂🤣☠️
That Lalique "Soliel" sounds delicious, if a woman was wearing that I'd probably want to eat her. That came out wrong but you get what I mean, eat like a caramel glazed donut you would have with your morning coffee sweetened with a spoonful of sugar and almond milk.
The lack of people reacting to Christopher Lee in this movie scares me.
Yeah, dude.
Imagine if he'd been cast as the aspiring news anchor character who dresses up as Dracula. That might've been too meta even for this movie.
@@doughbafett Maybe... But then again, the Bat Gremlin's transformation is accompanied by very stereotypical vampire music and has a prominent reaction shot with the camera zooming in on Christopher Lee's face.
Or in Police Academy 7, but that left me speechless too, what in the world was he doing in that movie 😅
Joe Dante didn't want to do another Gremlins movie, but when he finally accepted the job he did all he could to take the piss out of the whole concept. This resulted in one of the most outrageous sequels ever made..
I saw this in a theater when it came out, and that gag with the broken projector absolutely slayed. Everybody fell for it when they faked the film breaking and the audience all started booing... and then the gremlins appeared. Too bad the joke falls pretty flat watching it at home.
Could be worse, I’m happy she got the theatrical cut, and not the VHS edit. The swapped out scene was absolutely lame in comparison.
Yeah, I saw it at a sneak preview screening a few weeks before it officially opened. We all thought the reel actually broke and people started booing. Once the gremlin silhouettes showed up on the screen, we all looked back and saw the projector waiving a gremlin cutout and playing along with the gag.
The janitor who accidentally gets gizmo wet is played by John Astin, Gomez Addams from the Addams family tv show and adoptive father of Sean Astin(the Goonies, Rudy, Lord of the Rings)
Robert Prosky played a priest in the movie "Rudy" with Sean Astin.
In addition to the reel and VCR breaks built into the film, I also remember the novelization had a break as well, where the gremlins took the writer hostage. :)
Never knew this...I gotta read that
(gunshot)
"Now was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized."
Now, bear in mind, none of them had been to New York before.
the Gremlins ominously saying "Going up" scary, then instantly proceeding to make generic alarm sounds when prompted, hilarious!
Honestly I love this movie, I also love that they mocked the Stupid “Dad Died coming down the Chimney” storyline. If you watch that scene in this movie you see the actor who plays Billy Breaking as Kate’s talking about Abraham Lincoln. I enjoy how this is essentially a parody of the first movie
I love that moment too. I just love that none of the characters care and Zach Galligan is trying his best not to bust out laughing.
Loveedddd that!! Redeems that moment in the first one!!
She is SOOOO serious both times though! Hilarious.
Pretty dark friggin'jokes though. Try that nowdays.
@@ShanelleRiccio I disagree. That moment in the first movie brought some depth to Pheobe's character. It wasn't played for laughs. Taking a serious moment from the first film and playing it for laughs is just disrespectful.
@@acrobat89 Right….. if you so, I guess it must be true.
MST3K had the best response to the nitpicking questions: "if you're wondering how they eat and breathe, and other science facts. Just repeat to yourself 'it's just a show, I should really just relax' "
I'm one of the few who enjoys this one more than the first. It's dumb, it's silly, it's meta, and it's right up my alley.
I think there are more people who love this one more than is widely known! I do! There were people not enjoying the 'Looney Tunes"-ishness of it all, which is their loss.
What makes you think more people enjoy the first? I think you hear about the first more because it more easily fits into the category of a "Christmas movie" and this one is not so easy to lock down but I think this one is just as discussed if not more so. It's hardly dumb. The script is very tightly plotted and there's nary a wasted moment that doesn't come into play in some way. It's silly, not dumb.
@@uosdwiSrdewoH The best indication we have are the online user ratings.
IMDb: G1 = 7.3/10 (206565 votes), G2 = 6.4/10 (97682 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes audience score: G1 = 78% (3.9/5 average rating), G2 = 57% (3.4/5 average rating)
Metacritic audience score: G1 = 7.3/10, G2 = 6.6/10
No I prefer this too
It’s more adult but subtle
@@-M0LE How?
Jerry Goldsmith’s score is one of the myriad number of reasons why I love this classic.
Now that you've seen this ... you'll truly appreciate the insanity that is this Key And Peele sketch:
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Hahahahaha. I had never seen that sketch before! Hilarious. Thanks
Ha. Yup. Perfect.
The song playing while Gizmo was getting tied up by the gremlin was "Surprise, You're Dead!" by the band Faith No More. Amazing band. Pretty great soundtrack considering the movie. Got some Slayer in there, too.
The theme for Spike aka Spider Gremlins is Angel of Death by Slayer.
An interesting fact about the song is Columbia Records who was the distributor for Def Jam, slayers label, refused to release the album because Angel of Death is about Dr. josef Mengele, the Nazi scientist who performed experiments on living people in the concentration camps. the album was eventually released by Geffen records but recieved pretty much no radio airplay. Yet it still enter the billboard top 200 and was certified gold.
Going to catch FNM next month, woo!
I really enjoyed Tony Randel voicing the talking gremlin.
Randall
The talking Gremlin is named Brain
9:11 You may recognise the twins as the security guard in 'Teminator 2', I'm told they are also in 'Good Morning, Vietnam'.
This film is brilliantly meta and making fun of the first one. It's also 'extra' in so many ways!
"You sat still for too long! Move around, and it'll turn back on." Silly, sarcastic gag then -- reality today. Anyone else ever been in a public restroom stall when the lights automatically shut off?
He was not referring to Ferby when he said “dolls with suction cups”.
After the first Gremlins movie they actually made Gizmo plush dolls with suction cups for car window. I remember seeing people’s cars with Gizmos but my dad didn’t want to get one for ours. 😔
It was referring to GARFIELD.
It was really big in the 80s and there were a LOT of them in car windows (with suction cups)
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I remember the Garfield ones, but they also made ones for Gizmo.
I grew up during the first film and gizmo was freakin' everywhere. I loved his ass.
This movie is just hilarious with its self aware mentality. Tony Randall steals every scene he voices😁. The movie's composer is Jerry Goldsmith, who has a cameo in the food court scene...he's the guy with the white hair. The horror host was modeled after Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis.
4 people who were in this movie were also on Star Trek DS9:
1. Mr. Futterman (Dick Miller) was a Sanctuary District Guard in the DS9 2-parter "Past Tense"
2. Forster(Robert Picardo) was Dr. Zimmerman in "Dr. Bashir, I Presume?"
3. Mr. Clamp (John Glover) was Verad in "Invasive Procedures"
4. The janitor that Forster fired for taking a drink from a water fountain(Henry Gibson) was Nilva in "Profit and Lace"
There is a novelization written after the first movie that give some lore for the Mogwai in the opening and shows us how intelligent Gizmo (and by proxy the others) actually are. They were created by an alien race to be pets but didn’t turn out right. Gizmo is good because he has a special recessive gene that gives him the intended calm demeanor. He also knows what would happen if he transformed and that he would lose that gene.
Also, for the nostalgia theme park; go look up Defunctland’s VR project ;)
Gizmo's singing is the cutest thing ever lol very self aware movie, so much fun.
Holy crap! Finally someone’s watching the second!
I bought the novelization book when this movie came out in theaters. The “Brain” Gremlin suddenly took over one of the book’s chapters, saying the author was tied up at the moment - literally! He talked for a few pages until he had to leave, as the author had untied himself, taken back control of the book, and the story continued.
😂😂😂
I like to think Gremlins 2 is a parody movie of the first one but they hired the original cast. Surely unique in that regard.
It famously was, as I remember. Joe Dante- who also directed the first one- wouldn't do the movie if he couldn't do it that way.
It's happened in other series. Return of the Killer Tomatoes. Beastmaster 2.
Gremlins 2 is definitely the most high profile and biggest budgeted example I can think of though.
Joe Dante really didn't want to do a sequel, but because the first Gremlins was such a big hit the studio kept pestering him. So five years later, he eventually agrees to give them the sequel they want, provided he has free reign to do basically whatever he liked. And he.. really ran with that. Hence the glorious insanity.
I’m so happy!
-free reign- free rein
Dante has said that he's never had that kind of freedom since-the battles he had with WB over Looney Tunes:Back in Action were nightmarish.
Gremlins 2 is really a sequel that you can commit to. I’m still shocked we haven’t gotten a G3 yet….mad. This is a parody but it doesn’t skimp on the legitimate script set ups and payoffs which I really appreciate, it may be gag upon gag upon gag but you never feel it loosing any thread and those payoffs are priceless. Joe Dante could’ve just took the money and made an unimaginative mess but he actually put work into it. That guy is a legend.
People always want a long-awaited sequel, until it comes out and gets accused of ruining childhoods for money. lol
g3 or nowadays you can go remake . . with todays tech. . yeaaaa
@@Blizzard0fHope Chris Columbus said that traditional puppets & animatronics would be used instead of CGI.
@@jp3813 even still been great advancements in animatronics too
@@Blizzard0fHope Animatronics are also a matter of artistry. There were more masters back then like Stan Winston (The Thing, Terminator, Aliens, Predator, Jurassic Park, etc...).
Talk about contrasting personality types the fact that the Brainy gremlin is voiced by Tony Randall continues to make laugh to this day. A long way from Felix Unger
Brainy (and female) gremlins are the best. Crack me up every time! 😄
Along with Gette Wattanabe who played Mr. Katsuji (guy with camera), the actress who played Marla (Haviland Morris) was also in Sixteen Candles as Jake’s girlfriend Caroline and Farmer Ted’s first time.
OMG! i didn't know that was her with red hair! Marla is my favorite character in this!
Disney needs to use the Snow White ride for Halloween by adding gremlins to it.
As a Canadian, I'm offended by their representation of our restaurants. They forgot to show our hockey stick shaped maple fountains behind the Mountie serving the moose head.
😂😂😂 that part
and poutine mixed with timbits.
there was also no mentions of rolling up a rim
And not one poutine.
I confess I like that round ham you guys call bacon. 😎👍
the suctioncup dolls wasn't a furby reference. there were millions of suction cup gizmo and gremlins in car windows in the eighties. my mom had one. the first toy I gave to my child was a stuffed gizmo.
Love this one so much more than the first. The cast is amazing, the gremlin morphs are wild (Electric Gremlin FTW!), and it is beyond crazy!
It wouldn't be quite as good if it couldn't poke fun at the first though. The meta-humor and reference jokes kill me.
I agree so much more fun!
Director Joe Dante has a stock company of actors you will see in most of his films. He also uses composer Jerry Goldsmith for the music in all his movies. Goldsmith makes a cameo in this movie. He is the white haired man saying "What's going on here, did she say Rats" when the gremlins are coming out of the candy containers.
"Is this a play on Trump? Clamp?" Correct! He was supposed to be an amalgamation of both Trump and Ted Turner. John Glover seems like too nice a person to play either of those two guys.
I love how Slayer Angel of Death comes on as the one gremlin drinks the spider juice and tranforms into a spider.
Keye Luke, the actor who played Mr. Wing, had been acting in Hollywood since the 1930s and they still had to put make-up on him to make him look older. He was quite the revolutionary actor for his time, having major acting gigs as a Chinese-American and NOT being portrayed as a villain.
About the "Broken film" scene - they did another version for the video release of the movie. In it you get "broken video tape" effects and flip around on TV channels a little with the Gremlins misbehaving themselves until they get put back on track by John Wayne.
@9:41 Back in the day when Tuco was a simple happy-go-lucky courier in NYC, before moving to Albuquerque and turning into a meth crazed maniac 😂
I can't believe Phoebe Cates only 19 acting credits, her last film was 20 years ago. She's been in some great ones though, "Drop Dead Fred", "Date With an Angel" and "Princess Caraboo", "Bright Lights, Big City".
14:50 Giz is smart enough to avoid eating after midnight. He knows what would happen.
Robert Picardo, at the end, reminds me of the Sheriff from Robin Hood Men in Tights.
Plushie gizmos with suction cups were in the back windows of so many cars in the 80s.
One of my all time favorite movies. My favorite jokes are the ones I didn't get the first time around, such as when Christopher Lee asks the twins how the cloning experiments are coming. XD
Those twin brothers also played in Terminator 2, when the new terminator takes on the appearance of a guard.
16:18 I put a ketchup packet into a microwave once because I thought it warm up the ketchup inside. But apparently those packets have metal of some sort because electric bolts started zapping inside my microwave lol.
I find this one to be more fun that the first. Totally self aware and hilarious. The talking gremlin just kills me
"Mister! Welcome to the men's room."
Still one of the most random but hilarious things I've ever heard in a movie. They should do that in real life.
No matter how many roles I see him play, I always (mentally, sometimes audibly) shout "Mr. Futterman!" when i see him.
That name alone!! Futterman really rolls off the tongue
I remember that when this came out the guys who made it said that they basically took every criticism the first movie got and instead of trying to fix them they doubled down and tried to make everything way more ridiculous and piss the critics off.
I thought the story was he didn’t want to make a sequel, but the studio forced him into it so he just took the piss with it instead
@@xx-ug9hn Not quite. Dante didn't want to make the sequel, but the studio started on it anyway. 5 years later, they still didn't have a director, so they came crawling back to Dante, who agreed on the condition that he got triple the budget of the original and complete creative control. The rest is glorious history.
this movie is the best sequel that has ever been made. the more i watch it the funnier it gets.
I love this movie. I saw it in theater when I was 6 and the audience was like crazy, specially in the segment were they destroy the film. I also loved the Hulkster cameo, mostly because I was probably the only WWF/WWE fan in my country back then (Argentina)
This movie was ahead of it's time.
Others already wrote how Joe Dante only agreed to make the movie when they allowed him to go all out and pretty much riff the first one. The brilliant thing is that for the Gremlins this totally works, because the way those mischievous little pricks already behaved in the first movie.
Joe Dante would only do this sequel if Warner Bros. gave him final cut and complete creative control, which they did, and we got this absolute satirical batshit crazy masterpiece of a film!
I’m so glad I saw this in the theater when it came out. I was 9, and my mom picked my sister and I up from an awful day care summer day camp (she’d lost her job that day, and said to hell with it - we’re going to the movies). Seeing this in the theater as a kid was amazing and is a fond childhood moviegoing memory.
I cant think of new york new york without thinking of gremlins singing it
“I…Wanna…talk a little bit about some of the things going on in this room”
A Ramen flavor packet got stuck to the bottom of a plate of tacitos, used the same plate to cook another batch and sparks flew.
Finally somebody reacting to the (superior) sequel! 🙃
I still say Phoebe Cates has the cutest nose since ever.
And Kevin Cline is luckiest guy on earth.
@@warre1 Yep! I had a huge crush on her. Then, for whatever reason, she chose Kevin Cline over me. I have never recovered. :(
I met a girl named Jen with a better nose. It was mesmerizing.
I always figured that Gizmo had the benefit of time and experience on his side. He was old enough that he had learned empathy and to behave himself in order to avoid really negative consequences while the new ones are new and therefore have not.
What would a Gizmo turned Gremlin look like?
The white-haired older guy shouting an incredulous "Rats?!" at the yogurt vendor is composer Jerry Goldsmith.
This was the second film I ever saw in theaters (the first being Dick Tracy). I remember having seen most of the first Gremlins on television so I was really wanting to see it in theaters after falling in love with the theater experience as an 8 year old; the darken room, the overly buttered popcorn, and the GIGANTIC screen compared to our 25" or so TV. The most telling I remembered was the reaction from my younger brother. He sat glued to the scene during this whole film as opposed to being bored during the Dick Tracy film.
As an adult, yeah this movie is way more fun that it really has any right to be.
The plates made before microwaves that had the decorative metal embellishments
I was going to say the same thing. Only a few seconds in the microwave but when that plate started sparking, holy crap I never moved so fast before, lol
@@SpankDMunky and we only noticed cause we were looking in the microwave like they said not to.
ALWAYS
The brain gremlin is the best part of the movie.
I was always under the impression that Gizmo was the good Mogwai because he was grown up, all the others were like naughty children.
The hats the women wear in the movie reminds me of the wardrobe from “Brazil”. Yes I’m mentioning that movie again, it’s underrated and I’d love to see her reaction to the film.
**WHAT WE WANT, IS WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS… CIVILIZATION!!!**
It always puts a smile on my face whenever actor Dick Miller (RIP) appear on screen.
I don't think these movies were ever popular enough to get a theme park ride. Warner Bros would be Six Flags and they do Batman and stuff.
I do love this movie.
Unlike the great first one, this is LITERALLY Looney tunes!!!
"Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized." This line made the whole movie worthwhile for me. Hilarious.
I hope the 1989, underrated gem, The ‘Burbs finds it’s way into your watchlist soon. It was the film Joe Dante made a year before Gremlins 2.
One additional fun Fact Shanelle, is that the actor who voiced the "Sexy Female Gremlin" is the same actor that voices Miss Piggy in the Muppets. You can really hear it when she first jumps on the suit, and exclaims, "Oh why won't you just commit already?" lol
I've been wanting to see your reaction to this one. I remember you liking the first one (aside from the chimney thing). I also got the impression that you appreciated the self aware/4th wall kind of moments in movies, so I figured this one would be a good choice for you! Glad you enjoyed it!
The mogwai have an insane origin in the novelization of the first movie. They’re genetic creations by an alien scientist. They were meant to be dispersed throughout the galaxy promoting peace, which is why they look cute. Most of them being evil and their ability to turn into gremlins are defects. Only one in every 10k or 100k or something are good, and Gizmo is one of those.
That Mohawk trivia was a bit simplified. He’s a reincarnation of Stripe and he remembers Gizmo killing him, hence why he’s mostly torturing him while the others cause havoc
There’s gonna be an animated prequel show about Gizmo meeting a young Mr Wing
The score was composed by the late, great Oscar-Winning and multiple Academy Award nominee Jerry Goldsmith. When he passed back in 2004, the movie industry suffered such an incalculable loss. He was truly one-of-a-kind.
Mountain Dew has commercials with Gimzo and Billy
My older sister used to have a gizmo furby.
Love her videos. The look on her face watching Gremlins 2 play out perfectly sums up why this flick is so great (and superior to the OG in my opinion, though they really are very different films with different aims). But her face says it all: just joy. Like with the old WB toons it references, G2 has the power to make you let your guard down and just be thrilled as it all bounces along.
Lots of movies are fun, but Gremlins 2 *IS* fun. Distilled and pure.
OMG that ride must have been EVERYTHING. loved your reaction! The note on the Looney Tunes was really smart, I remember when this came out so much time had passed since the original there was all this meta stuff to pull from years reactions to that first one, it was very cool.
I loved that ride as a kid.
My favourite childhood movie and, honestly, still one of my favourites. Love this movie so much.
Another movie with Phoebe Cates you should watch : Drop Dead Fred
This one was the first "Gremins"movie I ever saw. Had a copy recorded from TV, took years before I saw the full film(tv version had some parts missing).
The names of the New Batch are: George(the ugly one), Lenny(the goofy one with buck teeth(these two named after the characters from "Of Mice and Men"), Daffy(the psycho one)and Mohawk(Word of God says Stripe reincarnated).
The novelization of the first book did explain why Gizmo was the best of the gremlins. The Mogwai were created by alien scientists to be the perfect pet and be given as gifts of goodwill to people across the universe, but only one in a thousand were kind and sweet like Gizmo, while the rest were maniacally destructive(along with their other defects, such as their allergy to light and multiplication with water).
18:27, my favourite scene, especially the gremlin going "Bwah bwah bwah"and mocking his voice, XD!
Well, now you know why she hates that Flasher Gremlin.
Lmao, love that ending.
This movie has some of the best cinematic characters. Daniel Clamp, Marla Bloodstone, Dr. Catheter, Grandpa Fred, Mr. Katsuji, Microwave Marge!!
For more Robert Picardo, check out Innerspace with Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Martin Short.
Stripe and Mowhawk are voiced by Frank Welker- most famous for voicing Freddy in Scooby Doo. He does a ton of voice over work. He is the cave of wonder voice in Aladdin. He also voiced Claw in Inspector gadget and was on Muppet Babies with Howie Mandel. They voiced the male and female twins, Skeeter and Scooter. Frank also voiced the troll in Cat's Eye, he Vs. Drew Berrymore and her cat with a tiny sword!
I didn't realize until you mentioned it, but yeah, when I saw this on video, the part where it "breaks" was done like when a VHS tape messes up, and the shadow puppet part was done on a screen of static TV "snow" or something like that.
I don't know if you have seen "Breaking Bad," but the messenger that whistles Gizmo's theme played Tuco! Also, Jonathan Banks who played Mike was in the first movie as a deputy! I love your channel and keep up the good work.
on the VHS the gremlins mess with the VHS tracking. the exterior with the escape elevator was also in MIB 2
Gizmo's special because he has a sense of responsibility. I don't know that he _can't_ transform, but he _won't_ because he refuses to eat after midnight.
The new Gremlins have been given names by fans and were considered as reincarnation of Gremlins from the first movie.
Daffy (named after Daffy Duck) is a reincarnation of the Gremlin killed in the blender which could explain his craziness.
George and Lenny are named the main characters from 'Of Mice and Men'. George is a reincarnation of the Gremlin that was killed in the microwave which could explains how he recognises the microwave. Not sure which Gremlin Lenny is a reincarnation of though.
Mowhawk is definitely a reincarnation of Stripe hence the stripe of white fur on his head.
Myth Busters proved putting metal in thr microwave just produces a scary sounding spark that doesn't do anything beyond that.
A bag of Doritos out of the fridge. I’ll never forget seeing that those bags have trace amounts of metal.
Ha! The Holographic Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager as the mean guy....too funny. ALSO: "Three O'Clock High" and "Pump Up The Volume"
To this day, every time I walk by 101 Park Avenue, I reflexively think of it as "The Clamp Building." And having been IN the building multiple times, it's downright surreal. The lobby looks like the Clamp lobby, complete with the same colors and materials.... But at 1/10th the size of the movie version (and with no second level).
When I see Phoebe Cates I always think of Drop Dead Fred, we had that film on repeat in our house.
I remember seeing the home video version first where it's the Gremlins changing the channel and movie on you, and then being so surprised to hear that my friend who had seen it in theaters said there was a scene where Hulk Hogan showed up. I finally saw the Hulk Hogan version when the movie came to cable.
HBO Max has an animated Gremlins tv series called "Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai". The series is a prequel to the first movie and is set in 1920s Shanghai, China. The story revolves around a boy named Sam, who later becomes the grandfather to the person who sells Billy's father Gizmo.
The talking Gremlin says on the phone he is advising his clients to put all their money into shot guns and canned goods, To this day I quote that line every chance I get
Oh yeeeah, best sequel ever, just straight-up looney tunes madness!
T2
@@abehernandez9359 G2 > T2
@@abehernandez9359 T2 is amazing, and honestly one of my favourite films ever, but it doesn't have the sheer "Let's rip the first film apart" balls of Gremlins 2.