Six years after the original “Gremlins”, Joe Dante came back to give us this insane sequel. Truly, this film is INSANE. It is almost just 100 minutes of gremlins gags, but it is so much fun. I’m not sure that the returning actors would have enjoyed this film as much as the first experience, because they seem to fade in and out of the film, with the gremlins themselves, the stars this time around.
The sequel sees everyone holed up in a self-sufficient (and malfunctioning) high rise building in Manhattan, which is over-run by gremlins who just want to escape out of the building into New York, once the sun has gone down (remember bright light kills them).
The biggest flaw to the film is the under-use of the always cute, Gizmo – he just isn’t in the film enough. The biggest highlight, though, is that of the “Brain Gremlin”. This is a gremlin who has swallowed a “brain” serum causing him to become super intelligent and gives him the ability to speak (who is voiced by Tony Randall and is hilarious), not to mention he starts wearing glasses. Overall, this is such an un-even mess of a film (the pacing is all over the place), that is however, amazingly entertaining.
3 Stars - Viewed at the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival
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