That's the great thing with Dante: He adds Warner Bros-esque touches to all his films. Gremlins 2 is his Citizen Kane, of course, where he had carte blanch to do anything and everything.
The original Gremlins turn to be a dark version of Warner cartoon in the last 15 min. when the gremlins fully appeared and take the town... The second one assumes that mood since the beginning.
I saw this in the cinema as a kid and the scene where the Gremlins mess with the projector really got the whole audience, people were standing up and looking back up the real life projector booth. And then we all cheered when Hulk Hogan got it started again haha.
@@RandyWhite-e6t What's the difference? Seriously: the filmmakers dressed the Brain Gremlin up in Frank's iconic "Chairman of the Board" suit, fedora, and trench coat ensemble.
_"Now, bear in mind, none of us has been in New York before. There are the Broadway shows - we'll have to find out how to get tickets. There's also a lot of street crime, but I believe we can watch that for free"_
Joe Dante regularly posts in the comments-sections of a particular Hollywood commentary website that I frequent (Hollywood Elsewhere), and he's always totally awesome and down-to-earth. He always responds to questions about his films.
I like that the Slayer song Angel of death plays during the gremlin spider transformation. That song came out in 1986. So it wasn’t a promotion of a current album. Someone just wanted the song in the movie. The song is cued to the action in the movie too.
YEAH. I saw it in an empty theater with my cousin was one of the most enjoyable theater experiences I've had. The Hulk Hogan scene hit differently watching on the big screen
“Please remove your car from the Clamp parking garage. Your car is old and dirty.” I remember cracking up at that and nobody else in the theater had noticed it. The broken film reel scene fooled a lot of people. Fun movie.
I remember seeing this in the theaters when I was eleven. Interesting enough the soundtrack in the movie is the first time I heard the band Slayer. They played ten seconds of Angel of death.
I love Gremlins 2, but I'm surprised QT tosses the original Gremlins under the bus. I still think Gremlins 1 is amazing and easily the more memorable of the two. There aren't that many movies that are simultaneously kids movies, Christmas movies, and surprisingly intense horror movies. Gremlins works beautifully.
Sounds like they cut up the interview and just used stuff about the 2nd movie and you might not be getting the full interview on the movie and there is an interview where he is talking up the 1st one.
QTs opinion are all over the place man 😂 I just watched something yesterday with him criticizing Prometheus and how the scientist are the dumbest of all time in that movie for petting a space cobra lmao. Like bro its a movie 🙄 How many improbable things happen in QT movies?? When has anyone taken a spike of adrenaline to the heart in the history of medicine?? 🥴 Why would any henchman point a gun at a captive with their finger on the trigger when they want them alive? Why would a heroin addicted henchman take time out of his day to take a shxt knowing he’s consipated from the drugs and the target could show up at any minute? 😂 I wish I could tell him it all falls under the same category bud: Hollywood Entertainment Edit: damn Vincent Vega is the worst henchman of all time now that a think about 😂
I have Gremlins 2: the New Batch up there with Matinee as Joe Dante's greatest movie. I love Matinee, especially the Mant! sequences which are just sublime.
Matinee is just wonderful. It has the right balance of elements which I do not think Gremlins 2 achieved. Gremlins 2 is far too self-indulgent and undisciplined which continuously drives it off balance. Matinee has one absolutely consistent theme running throughout the movie. It's a real movie, not a sketch comedy hodgepodge.
Tarantino needs to write and direct a creature feature type of film. I just watched Alien: Romulus this week and was very impressed. I wish Tarantino would get into something like that one day.
He has said he would have liked to do a Star Trek movie, but if only could be r rated. I really just wish he would take the ideas he had for that and make something of his own.
Scorsese made Hugo, a beautiful G rated movie, Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey, same. If QT was any good at directing, he'd try making a Disney G rated family film with no references to (or music or plot lines pinched from) any other films. Have fun waiting for that day.
I saw this in the theater the night it came out, and then we went to Pancho’s Mexican Buffet (for my first time) afterwards. The one scene I remember was the film breaking and Hulk Hogan coming on screen. (He got cheered at our theater in Houston too). In hindsight, yes, this was clearly a explicitly-spelled-out indication of what the movie was up to.
Years ago, a local radio station had a daily Movie Quiz contest, and I was quick to call in and say which movie the following quote came from: "WELCOME TO THE MEN'S ROOM!" I won a free movie rental -- back when those were still a 'thing'.
That line about the international dateline would actually be a really fun plot point for a third movie. I always thought that a third Gremlins movie should take place on a plane.
One of Dante's favorite and inspiration in movies was Hellzapoppin' (1941) Along with Chuck Jones cartoons of his childhood. Hellzapoppin is like Looney Tunes with just humans. A very pioneering movie that was based on a Broadway play.
Tarantino’s film knowledge is so vast his brain is just basically a mental film library of every film ever made and he can watch them whenever he wants just by thinking of the title
Have you read his novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? That's his film knowledge on display when he's got NOTES... and it's on a whole other level.
I have never seen Gremlins. I'm not even sure why but Sky television only ever seemed to show the sequel when I was a kid. And I would watch it whenever it came on and I loved the anarchic, madcap nature of it. The setting of the movie was glorious, it felt like all hell was breaking loose in that building and it was fantastic to behold.
@@jonathanw1019 Not a problem. The rest of Gremlins 1 is awesome. A true modern fable that stays believable from beginning to end. Something we can't say for Gremlins 2, which constantly undermines its own story with jokes that are wildly hit and miss. It's got way more eye-rolling groaners than the Zucker brothers spoofs of that era did.
“Gremlins 2” was a victim of horrible timing, coming out at a time when moviegoers were sick of sequels (though they kept flocking to them---see below), so they assumed it was just another lame cash grab. The release date didn’t help either. Seemed like prime real estate for a summer popcorn flick, mid-June 1990---but it came out the same weekend as “Dick Tracy” AND in the wake of the releases of big hits “Total Recall,” “Back to the Future Part III,” and “Another 48 Hours,” with “Days of Thunder,” “Ghost,” and “Die Hard II” about to sweep it away in subsequent weeks, to limbo until it could become legendary on cable and home video.
I was alive then, and did see Gremlins 2 in the theater, having been a big fan of the first movie. I didn't like the sequel, so I understand why word-of-mouth couldn't save it. I think another problem was that gremlins or muppet-style effects just seemed quaint and out-of-date by 1990. Thrillers and effects movies had gotten so much more high-tech by this point, with Batman, Back to the Future II, Abyss and Total Recall all wowing audiences with visions that could only be imagined before. Gremlins 2 didn't offer any upgrade in the technology. And, unfortunately, the cartoony gremlins like Daffy were an actual downgrade that looked far less realistic than what we got in 1984. There was nothing that looked new there on the technical side to entice audiences. Even Ghostbusters II had been a more successful sequel because it did have impressive special effects work that at least had some new ideas beyond the original movie.
Dante actually didn't want to direct Gremlins 2. He tried working on a script - didn't go anywhere . Later a Warners executive pretty much begged him to do the sequel and he got a bigger budget and more control.
Yep, I would dispute Tarantino that Gremlins 2 is Joe's most personal or signature film. That honor absolutely goes to Matinee. It's the movie every good filmmaker should do at some point, tell some version of their own personal autobiographical story. This one goes well with Lucas' American Graffiti and Spielberg's Fabelmans.
This, along with Little Shop of Horrors (the 90's version), was my favorite movie. I had both on VHS and I lost count of how many times I've watched. I am only now realising, maybe I was a little to fond of evil muppets?
I'll always remember seeing Gremlins 2 in theaters and that whole fake-out scene where it looks like the film melted. Sad that was cut from the home release of the movie.
G2 even made fun of the speech about Santa Clause Phoebe Cates made in the first one by talking about Abe Lincoln. I guess he really didn't like his own movie!
Well, Dante LOVED that scene in the original. He fought hard to keep it in the movie against the wishes of Spielberg and WB. He just wanted to do a parody of the original Gremlins, which is certainly an interesting thing in movie history. I don't know if any other directors have ever parodied their own serious films. Not for an entire movie anyway. Richard Donner dropped in a Superman joke in Goonies, and Spielberg poked fun at Raiders in the Indiana Jones sequels a little bit.
John Sayles told stories about writing "Piranha," also directed by Joe Dante, for Roger Corman. The challenge was: How do you keep finding ways to get the characters back into the water when they know it's full of piranhas? The same kinds of meta plot mechanics are at work in "Gremlins II." Inspired comedy.
Before coming into this video, I was almost expecting Quentin Tarantino to hate Gremlins 2: The New Batch for going into its meta and zany humor direction in comparison to the straight horror direction with moments of comedy of the first film, but was pleasantly surprised that he enjoyed the sequel and the humor and prefers it to the first one. This is coming from the same guy who dislikes The Matrix sequels and refuses to see Toy Story 4 for, in his own words, “ruining the mythology of the first film” and “being an unnecessary installment to a great trilogy”? 😮
Yep, even Zach Galligan has made it clear he prefers Gremlins 1. I think QT is absolutely right, though, that Dante prefers Gremlins 2. Dante has often complained about Spielberg making decisions that overrode his intent on Gremlins 1. Spielberg's main change was in keeping Gizmo alive for the whole movie and making him the star who saves the day at the end. Dante seemed like he had little appreciation for Gizmo's cutesy antics.
So the HBO animated series gremlins secrets of the mogwai actually addresses the whole issue of at what point does a Mogwai become a gremlin if they eat after midnight and the legend says when the moon is at its peak in the night sky that a mogwai may turn into a gremlin if they eat during that time.
I saw both of these as a young child, gremlins scared me and gave me nightmares, gremlins 2 was hilarious and made gremlins no longer scary, I hope they get redone as a comedy because as an adult now there is no way they could instill fear, but chaos hells yeah🤟
Gremlins wasn't a spoof, it was an over-the-top sequel made for the Gremlins audience that was now ten or eleven. I saw it in the theater as the target audience and loved it. Everyone else hated it.
Some people says that Gremlins 2 is bad but I think it is a 80' classic. So silly, so full of gags... And the Hulk Hogan's or John Wayne's cut scene 🤭🤭Awesome
I remember watching Gremlins 2 as a kid. It was one of the craziest sequels I'd seen at the time. It's so over the top compared to the original. A wild take on corporate America. It reminded me of Alien 3. It pissed off a bunch of fans at the time, but I really appreciated the risks it took.
What if I buy a Mogwai in NY but then I move to CA? Can I now not feed it after 9pm local, or does it adjust to the time change? Same question for daylight savings. Also, mogwais can't get wet but Billy used to keep Gizmo's bed right next to his bed. As a teenager, that seems dangerous, what exactly qualifies as a wet substance? ...asking for a friend.
So glad he qualified that line with "since Airplane" because as good as Gremlins 2 was, Airplane is insurpassable! But honestly it's not just gag a minute parody movies - I'd place Airplane and Gremlins 2 as the #1 and #2 Comedy Movies full stop!
Gremlins 2 is a lot of fun. It's not amazing but the nostalgia factor and the combined acting talents of John Glover and Robert Picardo alone make it well worth a rewatch.
Gremlins 1 is the perfect horror film. Gremlins 2 is the perfect comedy. As much as I hate that the horror went away, I hate it more that Gremlins can never go back full horror. With that being said. I love them both.
‘Gremlins 2: Dante’s Peek’
😂😂😂😂😂
Starring Pierce Brosnan
The ‘Burbs was Dante’s peak for sure. And then later Eerie, Indiana as far as his TV career went
Very good? 🎉🎉🎉
@@cartooningwithchris5329 If you squint real hard Mars Attacks! almost looks like a Gremlins 3 and that had Pierce Brosnan in it.
Gremlins 2 is a total masterpiece cause it's a live action Warner Brothers cartoon.
That's the great thing with Dante: He adds Warner Bros-esque touches to all his films. Gremlins 2 is his Citizen Kane, of course, where he had carte blanch to do anything and everything.
The original Gremlins turn to be a dark version of Warner cartoon in the last 15 min. when the gremlins fully appeared and take the town... The second one assumes that mood since the beginning.
Masterpiece 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
BEcause.
I saw this in the cinema as a kid and the scene where the Gremlins mess with the projector really got the whole audience, people were standing up and looking back up the real life projector booth. And then we all cheered when Hulk Hogan got it started again haha.
hahaha that's how you got Trump, I finally get it!
“Casablanca… now in color, and with a happier ending!”
Blasphemy
@@citizenVader Prophecy
George Lucas: “Quick, take notes!”
@@turtleflipper9935 lunacy
@@citizenVader nobody promised the future would be sane
The Brain Gremlin’s rendition of “New York, New York” is still my favorite version of that song.
Cmon man over Sinatra?
@@RandyWhite-e6t What's the difference? Seriously: the filmmakers dressed the Brain Gremlin up in Frank's iconic "Chairman of the Board" suit, fedora, and trench coat ensemble.
_"Now, bear in mind, none of us has been in New York before. There are the Broadway shows - we'll have to find out how to get tickets. There's also a lot of street crime, but I believe we can watch that for free"_
One of best lines in cinema!
Underrated
Joe Dante regularly posts in the comments-sections of a particular Hollywood commentary website that I frequent (Hollywood Elsewhere), and he's always totally awesome and down-to-earth. He always responds to questions about his films.
The Female Gremlin rising through the floor to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is pure cinema.
Greta
Red Lips
Young I was, needed the money I did
I seen this in the theaters when it came out and the gag where the film rips caught the whole audience and brought us right back into this crazy film
The Key and Peele sketch for the pitch was perfect.
Very true…..but the movie did all the heavy lifting. K&P just coasted on the excellence of Gremlins 2. Not hating just a fact. 😇
Pitch Perfect?
@@jp3813 hes talking about a sketch.
@@miggy78 r/whooosh!
@@jp3813he don't get it
I could listen to tarantino talk for hours. He is a machine ✊🙂
.... only if you do as much cocaine as him
I like that the Slayer song Angel of death plays during the gremlin spider transformation. That song came out in 1986. So it wasn’t a promotion of a current album. Someone just wanted the song in the movie. The song is cued to the action in the movie too.
For all its lunacy, this movie still held on to its horror roots with the malevolently devilish Mohawk.
“Matinee” is Dante’s best movie, but “Gremlins 2” is an absolute blast. I was one of the few who saw it in theaters and loved it.
Gremlins 2 was the best time I had in a theater as a kid.
YEAH. I saw it in an empty theater with my cousin was one of the most enjoyable theater experiences I've had. The Hulk Hogan scene hit differently watching on the big screen
Yes!! & The Garbage Pail Kids movie.
Gremlins 2 is one of my favourite movies of the 1990s. Honestly i couldnt imagine the universe without it.
'Innerspace' is one of Joe Dante's best.
God yes -- it is criminally underrated and overlooked. One of the zaniest and most enjoyable comedy adventure movies of all time.
@@zerodreaming I did some Innerspace mashups if you're interested. They're in my "Mashup World Land" playlist.
Innerspace is so good! I feel like no one saw it, and it's peak!
I remember loving that movie as kid.
Awesome film. The grocery store freakout is hysterical.
“Please remove your car from the Clamp parking garage. Your car is old and dirty.” I remember cracking up at that and nobody else in the theater had noticed it. The broken film reel scene fooled a lot of people. Fun movie.
I remember seeing this in the theaters when I was eleven. Interesting enough the soundtrack in the movie is the first time I heard the band Slayer. They played ten seconds of Angel of death.
I love Gremlins 2, but I'm surprised QT tosses the original Gremlins under the bus. I still think Gremlins 1 is amazing and easily the more memorable of the two. There aren't that many movies that are simultaneously kids movies, Christmas movies, and surprisingly intense horror movies. Gremlins works beautifully.
@@miggy78 Quentin likes having his own head up his ass.
You´re wrong, he´s right.
Sounds like they cut up the interview and just used stuff about the 2nd movie and you might not be getting the full interview on the movie and there is an interview where he is talking up the 1st one.
Yeah I just liked the first one, the second one was too much and not really a movie with a story. I get that’s the point but to each their own.
QTs opinion are all over the place man 😂
I just watched something yesterday with him criticizing Prometheus and how the scientist are the dumbest of all time in that movie for petting a space cobra lmao. Like bro its a movie 🙄 How many improbable things happen in QT movies?? When has anyone taken a spike of adrenaline to the heart in the history of medicine?? 🥴
Why would any henchman point a gun at a captive with their finger on the trigger when they want them alive? Why would a heroin addicted henchman take time out of his day to take a shxt knowing he’s consipated from the drugs and the target could show up at any minute? 😂
I wish I could tell him it all falls under the same category bud:
Hollywood Entertainment
Edit: damn Vincent Vega is the worst henchman of all time now that a think about 😂
I have Gremlins 2: the New Batch up there with Matinee as Joe Dante's greatest movie. I love Matinee, especially the Mant! sequences which are just sublime.
Matinee is just wonderful. It has the right balance of elements which I do not think Gremlins 2 achieved. Gremlins 2 is far too self-indulgent and undisciplined which continuously drives it off balance. Matinee has one absolutely consistent theme running throughout the movie. It's a real movie, not a sketch comedy hodgepodge.
When Phoebe Cates went on to describe why she didn't like presidents day 😂😅🤣
Literally mocking her "why I hate Christmas" from the OG gremlins
Phoebe Cates in her uniform.
Hell yeah
yes
I used to have a thing Kate in this but at 38, I'm drooling over Marla. Peltzer you lucky bastard!
Yes! 😍
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Gremlins 2 is the greatest sequel of all time
It's up there with Evil Dead 2 and Aliens for sure
One of the rare instances of the sequel being better than the original
💯
@@rumo5101,000%
I loved Eerie Indiana. Wish we had more of that.
I have loved Gremlins 2 since I first saw it when I was like 9. And he’s right, it gets better every time.
“The door is open. Please leave.”
Tarantino needs to write and direct a creature feature type of film. I just watched Alien: Romulus this week and was very impressed. I wish Tarantino would get into something like that one day.
He’s talked about potentially doing that. I think the closest we’ll get is From Dusk Till Dawn
@@wickedlateok1697 Nice. I forgot about that one. Will watch it again this week.
He has said he would have liked to do a Star Trek movie, but if only could be r rated. I really just wish he would take the ideas he had for that and make something of his own.
Scorsese made Hugo, a beautiful G rated movie, Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey, same. If QT was any good at directing, he'd try making a Disney G rated family film with no references to (or music or plot lines pinched from) any other films. Have fun waiting for that day.
BOTH films were amazing in different ways
I saw this in the theater the night it came out, and then we went to Pancho’s Mexican Buffet (for my first time) afterwards.
The one scene I remember was the film breaking and Hulk Hogan coming on screen. (He got cheered at our theater in Houston too). In hindsight, yes, this was clearly a explicitly-spelled-out indication of what the movie was up to.
Years ago, a local radio station had a daily Movie Quiz contest, and I was quick to call in and say which movie the following quote came from: "WELCOME TO THE MEN'S ROOM!" I won a free movie rental -- back when those were still a 'thing'.
Fun meta before Scream and The Last action hero.
Hellzapoppin’
Don't forget New Nightmare before Scream.
That line about the international dateline would actually be a really fun plot point for a third movie. I always thought that a third Gremlins movie should take place on a plane.
Key and peele summed up gremlins 2 perfectly
One of Dante's favorite and inspiration in movies was Hellzapoppin' (1941) Along with Chuck Jones cartoons of his childhood. Hellzapoppin is like Looney Tunes with just humans. A very pioneering movie that was based on a Broadway play.
Tarantino’s film knowledge is so vast his brain is just basically a mental film library of every film ever made and he can watch them whenever he wants just by thinking of the title
Have you read his novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? That's his film knowledge on display when he's got NOTES... and it's on a whole other level.
Dante directed the first film
I still give the first movie the edge, but I love both.
Dante said he based it off his favorite film, Helzapoppin.
John Glover was so good in this movie. Just cracks me up beginning to end.
I have never seen Gremlins. I'm not even sure why but Sky television only ever seemed to show the sequel when I was a kid. And I would watch it whenever it came on and I loved the anarchic, madcap nature of it.
The setting of the movie was glorious, it felt like all hell was breaking loose in that building and it was fantastic to behold.
The bar scene in Gremlins 1 beats any scene in Gremlins 2.
Problem is you have to watch the rest of the movie to get there.
@@jonathanw1019 Not a problem. The rest of Gremlins 1 is awesome. A true modern fable that stays believable from beginning to end. Something we can't say for Gremlins 2, which constantly undermines its own story with jokes that are wildly hit and miss. It's got way more eye-rolling groaners than the Zucker brothers spoofs of that era did.
This and Innerspace are top tier Joe Dante flicks.
My favourite Joe Dante is still Matinee but I agree with QT that Gremlin 2 is great.
“Gremlins 2” was a victim of horrible timing, coming out at a time when moviegoers were sick of sequels (though they kept flocking to them---see below), so they assumed it was just another lame cash grab. The release date didn’t help either. Seemed like prime real estate for a summer popcorn flick, mid-June 1990---but it came out the same weekend as “Dick Tracy” AND in the wake of the releases of big hits “Total Recall,” “Back to the Future Part III,” and “Another 48 Hours,” with “Days of Thunder,” “Ghost,” and “Die Hard II” about to sweep it away in subsequent weeks, to limbo until it could become legendary on cable and home video.
I was alive then, and did see Gremlins 2 in the theater, having been a big fan of the first movie. I didn't like the sequel, so I understand why word-of-mouth couldn't save it. I think another problem was that gremlins or muppet-style effects just seemed quaint and out-of-date by 1990. Thrillers and effects movies had gotten so much more high-tech by this point, with Batman, Back to the Future II, Abyss and Total Recall all wowing audiences with visions that could only be imagined before. Gremlins 2 didn't offer any upgrade in the technology. And, unfortunately, the cartoony gremlins like Daffy were an actual downgrade that looked far less realistic than what we got in 1984. There was nothing that looked new there on the technical side to entice audiences. Even Ghostbusters II had been a more successful sequel because it did have impressive special effects work that at least had some new ideas beyond the original movie.
I still think both movies are great.
Ok you convinced me, ill watch it again, its gotta be 30 years wow
Gremlins 2 is, and always has been, a masterpiece.
This movie would have been so good if it wasn’t a sequel
Dante actually didn't want to direct Gremlins 2. He tried working on a script - didn't go anywhere .
Later a Warners executive pretty much begged him to do the sequel and he got a bigger budget and more control.
Also had the opportunity to work with Christopher Lee.
He was mainly in burnout after GREMLINS. WB came to him after they had already tried at least six directors alone.
@van8ryan Yeah Warners wanted a sequel bad to this movie
And then a consultant came by and told everyone they could design their own Gremlin
The Burbs is his best
FR I just posted that as well 👍
100%
I think so too! Gremlins 2 is his second best for me.
I’ve seen The Burbs like 200 times and would watch it again right now.
Dang, that's a tough one, I love em both
I've always loved this movie and I am so happy it's finally getting its' flowers.
One of my fav sequels!😁👍👍
Gremlins 2 will never get better the more you see it.
One of the first movies I ever loved.
I love all of Mr. Dante's films, but let's not forget about Matinee. A movie lover's ode to his movie loving childhood.
Yep, I would dispute Tarantino that Gremlins 2 is Joe's most personal or signature film. That honor absolutely goes to Matinee. It's the movie every good filmmaker should do at some point, tell some version of their own personal autobiographical story. This one goes well with Lucas' American Graffiti and Spielberg's Fabelmans.
@ I couldn’t have said it better.
i thought i was alone in thinking the second film is far better than the first.
Agree 👍
This, along with Little Shop of Horrors (the 90's version), was my favorite movie. I had both on VHS and I lost count of how many times I've watched. I am only now realising, maybe I was a little to fond of evil muppets?
"Hey, pal, I sure hope you washed those hands."
I liked how it was basically a parody on its predecessor. And the Hulk Hogan scene was a pure classic.
I watched Gremlins 2 with my 8 year old son recently. I have never seen him laugh so hard.
I'll always remember seeing Gremlins 2 in theaters and that whole fake-out scene where it looks like the film melted. Sad that was cut from the home release of the movie.
G2 even made fun of the speech about Santa Clause Phoebe Cates made in the first one by talking about Abe Lincoln. I guess he really didn't like his own movie!
Well, Dante LOVED that scene in the original. He fought hard to keep it in the movie against the wishes of Spielberg and WB. He just wanted to do a parody of the original Gremlins, which is certainly an interesting thing in movie history. I don't know if any other directors have ever parodied their own serious films. Not for an entire movie anyway. Richard Donner dropped in a Superman joke in Goonies, and Spielberg poked fun at Raiders in the Indiana Jones sequels a little bit.
I liked when Stripe drinks the spider potion and Angel Of Death by Slayer starts jamming.🔥🤘
I absolutely ADORE this movie ❤
Think what you will about Tarantino but he understands film like few human beings on this earth can.
i like cheesy movies done right too lol
John Sayles told stories about writing "Piranha," also directed by Joe Dante, for Roger Corman. The challenge was: How do you keep finding ways to get the characters back into the water when they know it's full of piranhas? The same kinds of meta plot mechanics are at work in "Gremlins II." Inspired comedy.
Before coming into this video, I was almost expecting Quentin Tarantino to hate Gremlins 2: The New Batch for going into its meta and zany humor direction in comparison to the straight horror direction with moments of comedy of the first film, but was pleasantly surprised that he enjoyed the sequel and the humor and prefers it to the first one. This is coming from the same guy who dislikes The Matrix sequels and refuses to see Toy Story 4 for, in his own words, “ruining the mythology of the first film” and “being an unnecessary installment to a great trilogy”? 😮
He is a bell-end. His opinions don't count. Neither do mine, actually.
Love this movie
Gremlins is far superior to Gremlins 2. Dunno why QT implies it’s forgettable, everyone in my generation knows it well and it’s universally loved
Yep, even Zach Galligan has made it clear he prefers Gremlins 1. I think QT is absolutely right, though, that Dante prefers Gremlins 2. Dante has often complained about Spielberg making decisions that overrode his intent on Gremlins 1. Spielberg's main change was in keeping Gizmo alive for the whole movie and making him the star who saves the day at the end. Dante seemed like he had little appreciation for Gizmo's cutesy antics.
Both movies are great.
This film was my childhood
I could listen to his opinion about films all day long
If only Tarantino spoke with the same quality as his movies.
I unabashedly love both Gremlins movies but the second is by far my favorite
having sinatra and slayer on the same soundtrack is genius
“I’m Star Magic Jackson Jr…..”
I loved gremlins 2 more than the first when i was a kid.
I LOVE Gremlins 2❤️
So the HBO animated series gremlins secrets of the mogwai actually addresses the whole issue of at what point does a Mogwai become a gremlin if they eat after midnight and the legend says when the moon is at its peak in the night sky that a mogwai may turn into a gremlin if they eat during that time.
I saw both of these as a young child, gremlins scared me and gave me nightmares, gremlins 2 was hilarious and made gremlins no longer scary, I hope they get redone as a comedy because as an adult now there is no way they could instill fear, but chaos hells yeah🤟
Gremlins wasn't a spoof, it was an over-the-top sequel made for the Gremlins audience that was now ten or eleven. I saw it in the theater as the target audience and loved it. Everyone else hated it.
Some people says that Gremlins 2 is bad but I think it is a 80' classic. So silly, so full of gags... And the Hulk Hogan's or John Wayne's cut scene 🤭🤭Awesome
I remember watching Gremlins 2 as a kid. It was one of the craziest sequels I'd seen at the time. It's so over the top compared to the original. A wild take on corporate America. It reminded me of Alien 3. It pissed off a bunch of fans at the time, but I really appreciated the risks it took.
I loved/love both gremlins movies
Try Dante's Small Soldiers (1998) as an unofficial Gremlins 3 type-film.
His takes are spot on.
A friend of mine said it perfectly recently, “New Batch is Die Hard meets Looney Toons, just with Gremlins.” I’d say that’s 1,000% accurate. 😂
What if I buy a Mogwai in NY but then I move to CA? Can I now not feed it after 9pm local, or does it adjust to the time change? Same question for daylight savings.
Also, mogwais can't get wet but Billy used to keep Gizmo's bed right next to his bed. As a teenager, that seems dangerous, what exactly qualifies as a wet substance? ...asking for a friend.
So glad he qualified that line with "since Airplane" because as good as Gremlins 2 was, Airplane is insurpassable!
But honestly it's not just gag a minute parody movies - I'd place Airplane and Gremlins 2 as the #1 and #2 Comedy Movies full stop!
One of the few sequels that is better than the first.
That is...a take.
@@666waughtron666it's the take of the guy talking in this very video
Not even close.
@@patrickflanagan3762 The guy that famously likes bad movies.
I like the mov e too, but you can't really compare the first one and this.
They are imo whole seperate genres.
Gremlins 2 is a masterpiece. 🏆
Gremlins 2 is a lot of fun. It's not amazing but the nostalgia factor and the combined acting talents of John Glover and Robert Picardo alone make it well worth a rewatch.
It is amazing though.
I LOVE Gremlins 2. Way more than the first movie!
Gremlins 1 is the perfect horror film. Gremlins 2 is the perfect comedy. As much as I hate that the horror went away, I hate it more that Gremlins can never go back full horror. With that being said. I love them both.
Terrified me as a kid
"...ITS IN THE MOVIE!" -key n peele
God do I love me some Gremlins 2.
He's right. It's amazing and gets better every time you see it.
The Key and Peele sketch about this movie is the funniest thing I've seen in 10 years.
The Burbs is his true peak
I love Gremlins 2 as well, but Dante’s masterpiece is The Howling hands down.
It's like the end of blazing saddles or Monty Python and the Holy Grail.....but the entire time.