We went insane watching *GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH* (First time watching reaction)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2022
- Mr. Hogan? We have Gremlins in the projection booth. Would you help us?
Holy moly. This movie was NUTS. Enjoy our reaction to GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH, our first time watching! Directed by Joe Dante and starring yet again Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates, this movie was by far the craziest and weirdest sequel we've ever seen.
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We ended up watching the Key and Peele sketch on this movie and it couldn't be more perfect 😂 Now I can't help picturing that guy in the writer's room for other bizarre sequels! Thanks for recommending it, everyone!
That sketch is hilarious.
I would have placed links in my other comment but it was removed as fast as I placed it, something your channel does.
And I was going to show amazing things for Gremlins.
I suppose your channel doesn't allow comments over a specific length to be typed. Let me see if I can post in multiple short comments, that worked. Kind of don't like doing that because I like it all in one comment, but oh well.
Hey I have some things to show you related to Grimlins.
Do a youtube search for Gremlins animations in the Unreal Engine 4 and 5. Type in "UE4 Unreal Engine Gremlin Dances to Thriller".
And don't tell me that a studio can't easily make Gremlins of any type and be creative with the open mind about it after seeing that video mentioned, if one person as a fan can do that.. imagine a studio.. and that doesn't even cost money if you have people already capable of modeling, animating, creating the sounds and so on for each Gremlin. Think about the level of movies and video games with the Unreal Engine 5, you have Unreal Engine 4 and 5 youtube tutorials, especially UE4 tutorials on just about any game mechanic, and the Epic's marketplace with free content to get started, the youtube tutorials are easy to make things like mud tracks, weather changes, climbing with a character, anything for your game easily.
And then check out making a Gremlin in Blender and other modeling programs, you will want to find videos on this on youtube, I found videos where people actually did have Gremlins they were modeling and showing how they were doing this from other modeling programs. Once you model it, place it in the Unreal Engine 5 and it will be like the video I mentioned above where the Gremlin is dancing, and just animate it, give it sounds, maybe even control it like a video game instead of just an a.i. or just movements for scenes as seen in that video.
There was a commercial video with Gismo last year to show a tease about the hint of a Gremlins 3 being made, check out that video on youtube.
You didn't notice an actor in Gremlins 2, the guy was the hologram doctor made of Photon particles in the Star Trek: Voyager show, check out the doctor from Star Trek: Voyager, you will see.
Movie trivia: When the movie was released on VHS, they cut the scene of them cutting the projector film, and replaced it with them causing the VCR to glitch into static, and changed the TV channel to old westerns. The "hero" was John Wayne (old footage with a dubbed voice impression) shooting down the gremlins.
Awesome. Now I have a reason to track down the VHS copy
I might be wrong, but that might only be in the American VHS, as I watched this one hundreds of time on VHS as a kid in Europe and the Hulk scene was the only one here.
The novelization had the Brain Gremlin lock the author out of his study and hijack the typewriter for a bit, only to flee when the author started breaking down the door with a fire axe.
The DVD has the Hulk scene
I must have watched the Duke shoot a thousand gremlins before the tape died when I was a kid.
The way I always describe it is that Gremlins is a horror film with funny parts, and Gremlins 2 is a comedy with scary parts.
That’s a perfect way to summarize them!
Unironically, one of the best sequels ever. They just jumped straight into the satire with both feet.
It took years. Dante only came back if they let him do whatever he wanted, and then HE let the puppeteers do whatever they wanted.
I didn’t really like it when I was a kid but now I love it
It’s better than the first. 100%.
There's a theory that Mogwai are just naturally evil, and Gizmo is the exception. That's why, no matter how many times he reproduces, they're all violent and cruel.
Have you seen the mountain dew gremlins trailer there's a good mogwai shown in it
Mogwai means demon in Chinese
@@zatoichi1 Yeah, but demons in Chinese folklore can be good.
The movies do a good job of portraying the gremlin myth, seeking mischief, destroying machinery, and potentially but not necessarily getting people killed.
Gizmo is what i believe they call an immortal in the movies lore, basically yes a very rare good gremlin (1 in a million) who is effectively ageless... unfortunately the regular gremlins live short lives, and they know it and its one reason they are little shits most of the time.
The theme of "gadgets" and "technology" is used in both films because the myth of Gremlins started as a fun way to explain why machinery went haywire or stopped working in WW2.. so the idea of having a whole building full of "new" technology for the Gremlins to mess with was kinda brilliant.
Also, the Looney Tunes connection isn't just becuse director Joe Dante is an uberfan of Looney Tunes and was personal friends with Bugs Bunny animator Chuck Jones (hence the intro).. there's actually a classic Bugs Bunny short from WW2 where Bugs battles a gremlin, and another LT short called Gremlins From the Kremlin where russian gremlins harass Hitler (who is flying a plane for some reason).
Ok, parody and all...but I got to say, the part where Billy's cubicle shut down because he wasn't moving, really struck a nerve with me. Ever been in a public restroom stall when the motion-activated lights cut off?
In fact Chuck Jones actually cameos in the first movie.
Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda, popularized the term.
Wow that’s hilarious
Actually that is incorrect. Quote unquote "Gremlins" was a term to created out of ignorance to blame unknown causes of mechanical failure *LONG BEFORE* strictly ONLY World War 2 as you have stated. It was invented at the dawn of the earliest technology as an explanation for things like electrical shorts, breakdowns and circuit malfunctions for ALL technology the entire world over in all countries since the very first mechanical & electrical devices were invented.
Later it was found that electrons passing through certain elements (such as copper filaments) actually ate away at the material and caused everything from short circuits to electrical fires. This would later be used to create useful inventions such as the fuse & fuse box. The fuse had a thin copper filament that if enough electricity were to pass through it all at once it ate away at it killing the fuse and stopped the supply of electricity to the building it was protecting preventing electrical fires from burning it down to the ground.
I legit feel Gizmo had his mischievousness ironed out of him by the store owner. His violent streak appears but more in his entertainment choices.
For about 25 years, this never crossed my mind. I instictively assumed Gizmo was just good, an exception to the rule, but that makes absolute sense. He was a "domesticated" Mogwai.
Gizmo killed Stripe and Mohawk. He has a violent streak too, but knows when to use it as a last resort, and only then to save his friends. Also help's he is deviously intelligent, he finds ways around his weaker form when it counts.
In the novelization, the 4th wall break is that Brain Gremlin takes over as writer, but flees shortly after a bit of writing as the author is breaking through the door w/ an axe.
just like in the Shining.
If you listen carefully, you can hear Gizmo say "Billy" when Billy opens the cage and finds him. 😍 It's such a sweet moment to see those two together again. I ❤ it.
This movie is one of the best examples of a live action cartoon
Agreed! It's wacky as hell.
The twin scientists would go on to be in Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Ha! I totally know who they played too!
they must got a lucky day
And I think also Good Morning Vietnam as the news editors…?
20:25 "It's frustrating how creative this movie is."
Yes, this about sums it up. This is a movie you can't see coming more than a second or two away, because it's just ... all ... over ... the map.
I preferred this one to the first one. All the mutations were so hilarious, and I loved the brain gremlin.
I 💖 when they got into the lab and got into the experiments. The Gremlins changed so much, it's crazy. I really liked it when Gizmo in 'Rambo' style killed Spider Gremlin.
Key and Peele have an amazing sketch about Joe Dante's Gremlins 2 writer's room meeting, which you described perfectly without even knowing. It's a must watch. Look it up.
"You had me at little Gremlin vajayjay!"
I remember watching this movie in the theaters when I was a kid. With the scene where the film stops, there were lots of groans in the theater because they actually thought the film messed up.
When that happened, I actually looked back to see what happened because I thought someone got into the booth. When I saw it's part of the film, I started to relax.
I saw it in the theaters too as a kid, but I had unfortunate timing to leave and use the restroom when the projector scene happened. When I got back my brother was telling me how I missed the most crazy thing ever. Just like the rest of the movie, my family trying to explain out loud what happened only made it sound even more ridiculous.
same. for a kid this movie was awesome. i'm pretty sure i saw it at least 20 times.
The guy who plays Mr. Clamp was also the voice of Riddler in Batman TAS. And of course that crazy scientist in Batman & Robin. And the dad of the main villain in SHAZAM. He's in a lot of DC/Warner Brothers related material it seems like. Lol.
And Lex Luther's father in Smallville
And the devil in brimstone a tv show in the late 90s early 2000s.
Leonard Maltin famously panned the first Gremlins movie.
Joe Dante was a little disheartened, but asked Leonard to do a cameo.
Daniel Clamp is a combination of Ted Turner and Donald Trump.
The Smart building where nothing works is an ode to all of Mr. Peltzer's gadgets from the first movie.
I don't know if you caught it in the full reaction, but the janitor that got Gizmo wet in the first place was John Astin, best known as the original Gomez Addams of The Addams Family
Oh that's funny, we actually didn't catch that 😂
FUCK! How come I didn't notice?? He did look familiar!!
Of course there was also the character playing a direct reference to Grandpa Munster, The Munsters being the weird knock off version of the Addams Family.
A fan theory is that it's best to only feed the Mogwai when the sun is up, arguing that since the sunlight kills them, sunlight also prevents the metamorphoses from happening.
I tried to make sense of this and what I came up with about 30 years ago was:
Their metabolism slows down after midnight and so eating lets them store the calories necessary for metamorphosis.
Their metabolism speeds up again after sunrise.
Now about the timezone thing, they experience the 'jet lag' effect and would need a few days for their metabolism to get in sync with the 'new' midnight.
It's their circadian rhythm.. but why should I write to fill in the plot hole of the movie?
@@xenxander the only answer I have to the question is 'why not?' All of what you wrote made sense to me
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
@@xenxander This is honestly the most succinct way to explain it, so well done.
18:27 If you're unaware, that was Robert Prosky and he played a parody of the Grandpa character from the original "The Munsters" show.
He was also in "Michael Mann's Heat", "John Carpenter's Christine" and "Last Action Hero".
And the camera man was Gedde Watanabe, who played Long Duck Dong in Sixteen Candles
This is one of my favourite movies of all time, and it still holds up. What most people don't put together on a first viewing of the Gremlin franchise is that it's all about a fear of new technology. the first one was about Asian tech coming to the US and the second is about the new technologies of the early 90s
I can definitely see that! Technology/inventions are a heavily recurring element in both films
19:53 Something to appreciate about the Rambo music that is playing is the fact that Jerry Goldsmith composed both for the Gremlins and Rambo series.
imagine growing up with smart gremlin's version of "New York, New York" being your default rendition. I had no idea who Frank Sinatra was until I had seen this movie 20 times. it's literally impossible for me to hear that song with out thinking about the gremlins.
Same!! A few years ago, I visited NY, and we took a Red Bus Tour. This song was playing over the headphone guided tour on repeat, and I could not stop thinking about the Gremlins version. It made the whole tour a lot more entertaining for me 😂
Joe Dante has a lot of films that are highly underrated: Piranha, The Howling, Explorers, Innerspace (aka 80s Ant Man), The Burbs, and his ultimate love letter to monster movies, MATINEE!, starring John Goodman. None are quite this crazy but all have a quirky Dante sense of humor and are worth a look.
Small Soldiers is also a great one
@@dylandaly2002 tru dat
Innerspace is a seriously underrated movie!
Fucking love Innerspace
I watched this so much as a kid, I loved it. Haven't seen it in decades. But it was always my favorite. Love all the creativity and the self awareness. This movie just didn't give a fuck. They just put everything in it.
Watching this in the theater as a kid was wild when it really looked the projector broke halfway through
A fun theory as to why Gizmo’s spawn have far more little resemblance to him opposed to the first film is the fact the water leaked down on Billy’s painting and markers and contaminated it and why the outcome was different.
I remember standing outside the cinema in the rain with my Mom waiting to see this movie on release day. It was a cold wet summer's day.
I lived in a tiny town and our theatre only had 1 screen and not many seats. We almost made it for the first showing of the day but they stopped the queue with about 5 people in front of us. So that meant waiting 2 hours in that rain for the next showing.
Finally after standing waiting the people started to come out. A group of about 5 teens, 18-19ish came out and started shouting out spoilers at us very cold, very wet, queuing folk... My Mom could't take it she walked over to the loudest one and punched him right in the face. He instantly fell to the floor his nose bleeding like crazy so my mom kicked him has hard as she could in the face and his eyebrow split open like soggy tissue paper. There was blood everywhere. His friends had ran off and all the other the people in the queue were clapping and cheering my Mom. The ticket lady had seen what happened as we were so close to the front and she gave us free entry and free ice cream.
The moral of that story? None.. My Mom is a bad ass who loves movies and hates spoilers. hehe
The New Batches names are Mohawk(who is said to be Stripe reincarnated), Daffy(the insane one), George(the angry one)and Lenny(the dumb one with buck teeth).
George and Lenny are named for the characters from "Of Mice and Men".
The gremlins remember the events such as the microwave nuking from the previous films, which is why they destroy it.
Man i would replay this movie so many times as a kid. Gremlins was my absolute favorite.
I was 7 when I convinced my dad to take me to the cinema and watch this (full disclosure as a little kid I got scared as shit and didn't make it to the end) - I can tell you that 4th wall break in an actual cinema as a small kid had a lasting effect on me. honestly got me traumatized for quite a while.
Ever since I managed to face that Gremlins (both) has been one of my absolute all time favourite movies and it's on my christmas movie playlist ever since!
So yeah... That 4th wall break in cinema! ... that was effective and amazing
Seeing as you recognized Tuco Salamanca, did you catch that Dean Norris (aka Hank Schrader) was one of the SWAT team members that came rushing in at the end of the movie? He shoots a puddle of gremlin goop and says, "It moved, sir".
24:05 This is a parody of the 1925 silent film of Phantom of the Opera, which would have still been fairly well known to film buffs in the 80s.
That might have been my favorite reaction from you guys yet!! I love Gremlins 2 so much, and it was a blast to watch you guys enjoy it as much as you did!! There is a Key and Peele sketch about the boardroom pitch ideas for this movie that you guys need to watch! It's hilarious!!
Thanks so much, that really means a lot! And yeah, we've been told about that sketch a lot since we watched the first Gremlins! We'll check it out asap!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight You're extremely welcome! Thank you guys! The only time I really get excited for a new TH-cam video are with JonTron, AVGN, Red Letter Media, and you guys. Enjoy the sketch!
You beat me by 42 minutes!
This is one of my favorite sequels and one of my favorite films to see people react to. They never know what they're in for.
Another movie with Robert Prosky (news Dracula) in it that you should check out is The Last Action Hero. It has a really fun, quirky sense of humor.
Another good (very) silly one is Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
FYI, Gizmo holding the bow and arrow is absolutely a toy. They sold it at Best Buy… I have one! It comes with a few accessories.
Gizmo was a huge toy after the first when I was a kid even though by today's standards it's not a children's movie. Part of the change in this sequel is that it was a change in direction with the new rating system in place.
Had forgotten the (emergency medical hologram) Doctor from Star Trek was in this xD
-Robert Picardo, playing the security/building admin/generally unpleasant guy.
Also plays "The Cowboy" in Joe Dante's Innerspace
The old man they fire for having a smoke break has been in several movies. One of his most known roles is the weird suspected new neighbour in The Burbs.
Two things you missed:
1) Robert Picardo is Billy's jerk supervisor whom later starred as the EMH Hologram Doctor on Star Trek Voyager
2) The Ginger twin scientists played a brief cameo part in Terminator 2 Judgement Day (1 was a security guard in the psych ward Sarah Conner was at & the other was the T-1000 replicating him)
So that guy inspecting Billy's cubicle at the start, firing the sweet old man? What if he said "Please state the nature of your medical emergency!"
Check out the Key & Peele Gremlins 2 writers room sketch. A must post-Gremlins-2 watch and very funny.
I've watched your guy's reaction videos a couple of times now and what I truly appreciate is not only the reactions you guys have from these different movies, but the chemistry you both have is fantastic. This is what makes the videos so good and so enjoyable to watch.
That really means a lot! We appreciate the love 🤙🏽
I love this film. I remember being so excited about seeing it in the cinema when it came out.
The "clones" we meet in the lab are twins and they also play the security guard in terminator 2
In the novelization there's a chapter written by the Brain Gremlin corresponding to when they broke the 4th wall in the film.
It will always impress me how expressive the puppets are and how seamless the puppetry and practical effects are, the few cgi effects work well, the gargoyle gremlin is the only cgi that really sticks out, while the electric gremlin looks exactly how you expect.
No, that was stop motion animation they used for that gremlin.
Dudes, it ALL makes sense when you realize that "Gremlins 2" is a live action cartoon. I'm amazed that you didn't get that Daniel Clamp is a parody of Donald Trump. Also, the voice of the Brain Gremlin was provided by the brilliant Tony Randall. His work is wonderful especially in George Pal's "7 Faces Of Dr. Lao". You'd LOVE it!
Half Trump, half Ted Turner (all the TV stuff).
3:08 played by Robert Picardo, who played the Doctor in Star Trek Voyager, Stargate and many many other TV series.
I saw this opening day in June of 1990.....I have grown to enjoy it, like it and with time I love it now!
Unfortunately, it didn't do well at the box office. Bummer
This reaction was wonderful.... the enjoyment this film has received over the years in awesome. Thanks guys! I am thinking of being a patreon supporter after this.
The Theater and video versions had different segments when the Gremlins mess with the program. In the Theater version, Hulk Hogan is shown to be in the theater and he bullies the Gremlins into putting the movie back on, and the vhs version had John Wayne.
I live in NYC. The bldg they filmed this in, is right on Park Avenue, east side of Manhattan. I used to work in that area, so I've see this bldg up close occasionally.
Those twin scientists appear in Good Morning Vietnam. That is a great movie as well.
Joe Dante: They said, “We really, really want a sequel to Gremlins. We want it for this summer. And if you'll do it, we'll let you do whatever you want. As long as it has Gremlins in it, you can do it.” And that's not an offer that you very often get."
And ... well the rest is history 😀😀😀
I figured the absolute shock from the Gremlins speaking fluent English was hilarious, but then Hulk Hogan just took the cake out of nowhere.
23:00 The Lincoln's birthday scene CRACKED me up in the theatre......I got the reference right away to the first movie!
Fun fact: the twins (Don and Dan Stanton) play both the security guard of the psych ward in Terminator 2 and the T-1000 transformed into said security guard. Also, please do watch Rambo, its actually a great piece about how we treat our veterans and one of the first major movies to normalize talking about PTSD and its prevalence among Vietnam Veterans.
I love how self-aware this movie is...hilarious😂
Joe Dante is such an underrated filmmaker.
Oh, and yes that was a fun gag in the theater. I'm glad I witnessed it at the old classic Delft Theater in Marquette, MI. Ah, the memories in that place...
I loved the one scene where the gremlins are truly terrified of Hulk Hogan. That was classic.
Never saw that scene in the Gremlins 2 VHS.
What set this film apart is that it is a live-action cartoon. All the crazy, wacky moments were Joe Dante being told by Spielberg to "go nuts."
The twins in this movie were also in Terminator 2 (the correctional officer that the T-100 replicates and spears through the eyeball). They're identical twins and their entire thing is appearing together for stunts and gags.
I loved how clamp was a parody of trump lol. And i LOVED the nes game. Ive watched acouplemof your vids and i swear ur rapport is the exact same energy i get when my brother and nephew and i watch movies. Good times!
So glad you reacted to this!
Murray Futterman is played by none other than Dick Miller, character actor extraordiaire! He was in too many movies I've seen...they made a great documentary about him called That Guy Dick Miller.
This is the best sequel ever made XD I wish we could have more Gremlin movies someday.
There's an animated prequel series coming soon from HBO Max.
I'm so glad you reacted to this! It's one of my favorite movies growing up. The 1st one is a classic, but this one is just walk to wall brightly colored mayhem
4:28 These twins play the security guard and the T-1000 double in 'Terminator 2' they also appear together in 'Good Morning, Vietnam'.
I had a copy of this that I taped from a free weekend of HBO when I was a kid. The VHS also had Christmas Vacation on it. I watched those movies over and over when I was 12 to 14.
There's an alternate version of the interruption in the VHS/pay-per-view version of the movie. Instead of Hulk Hogan in a movie theater, they move from static and different tv programming into a western movie.
Indeed
The talking Gremlin is voiced by the late Tony Randall from "The Odd Couple" tv series-He played Felix Unger
That was a great movie review from you two along with a really enjoyable video. I greatly enjoyed watching this movie more than the first one, and I loved watching the cornucopia of cameos in this one.
I was 12 watching this movie in cinema with friends. greatest thing ever.
Some of the best lines are left out of this. Like "I'm telling my clients to invest in food and shotgun", " fun but clearly not civilized", or "they come in electronic too?", I hope this would never air tape, "why won't men commit
My favourite key and peele sketch is about the writers room for this movie. It's hilarious once you've seen the film.
Did anybody yet mention that the two lab twins were the same actors who were in Terminator 2? One played the guard getting the coffee, and the other played the T-1000 mimicking him, then stabbed him through the eye. Aside from the CGI of the morphing T-1000, no camera trickery in that shot. Just two identical twins. Similar to the scene in the abandoned auto garage later on, where Linda Hamilton's twin sister played her "mirror reflection", so to speak, when they were working on fixing the T-800.
Gotta say guys, if y'all like Kurt Russel, and you like comedy, then I must highly recommend Big Trouble in Little China. it may be one of the best comedies from a great era for them.
I swear the Bat Gremlin was a Dracula refence/homage, as Christopher's presence at the same time as the transformation, plus the Toccata and Fugue in D minor intro playing, are surely no coincidences
Loved watching you appreciate this classic!
Oh, thank you so much for your compliment and donation, Steve. We appreciate that so much. The honor is truly ours watching and enjoying this movie!
The twins actors in this movie were used in Terminator 2 and the Robin Williams movie Good Morning Vietnam as well.
While watching this I realized a similarity between the dad's inventions in the first Gremlins and the Clamp technology both not working properly.
Watching you guys enjoy my childhood movies is so entertaining.
The old scientist is Christopher Lee (very good actor), he notably played Dracula. When the bat gremlins appear, Dracula music too with a close up on Lee 😉
Well his most recent notable roles would be Saurman in LOTR/Hobbit and Count Dooku from the Star Wars prequels.
The red head guy (clones) at 4:30 were also the night security guard in Terminator 2
Great job guys!
You've gotta see SCROOGED with Bill Murray if you haven't already. That's a classic.
When Stripe first appeared as a mogwai, I remember telling my mum "I don't think is suitable for me". I was only six or seven at the time and I found it too scary.
Gizmo walked so that Baby Yoda could also walk in the exact same weird way 😄
Well, Robert Picardo has himself been a green she-monster. He played Meg Mucklebones in _Legend,_ which is one of the scariest movie monsters I've ever seen.
I lov3 how you're web racing the surrealistic comedies we grew up on! They are highly re-watchable because you experience something new every time!! Enjoy fellas!!! ❤️
FUN FACT: In the 1st movie his name is "Stripe." In the sequel his name is "Spike."
Hey Fellas. I noticed immediately that the twin scientists were played by the twin actors of whom one got an ice pick in the eye from the T1000 in Terminator 2. I've nevah seen them in any movie aftah T2 til now. Makes me smile. 😊
loved this movie as a kid
Howie Mandel voices Gizmo. Frank Welker voices Mohawk as he did Stripe.
The twins (aka Don & Dan Stanton) also played the security guard (and I guess technically the T-1000) at the mental facility in Terminator 2.
This movie made me think chocolate mousse was like a chocolate bunny but moose shaped.
Just found you guys today and already a huge fan. Keep up the awesome work👍👍
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I've had So Much Fun and So Many Smiles watching your reactions.. Thank You!!
Such a FUN AWSOME Movie...
So Freaking Glad you reacted to this!!
That lady flirting with him was hilarious