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The Gremlins are back and this time they're wackier than ever!!! I loved seeing adorable Gizmo again, the awesome Jerry Goldsmith score, and the total wackiness! They really leaned into the satire in this one and it was sooooo much fun!!! 😆😆

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Dan Lapointe

This movie is so wild and hilarious. I love the Looney Tunes intro. And the part where the film seemingly burns up was so realistic, it fooled most of the audience into thinking the projector actually malfunctioned.

Darryl Low

Been looking forward to watching this with you Jen. After the looney tunes opening, this movie literally is a live action cartoon. They gave Joe Dante free reign to do what he wanted with the sequel and he didnt hold back haha. Jerry's score is suitably wacky, and he also has a cameo at the yoghurt shop, "What's going on here?" 😆😊

Rob Nichols

"All they have to do is eat 3 or 4 small children and there'd be the most appalling publicity!"

Geoff S.

The villain getting out of the limo in the beginning is the EMH from First Contact and Voyager. Except with hair!! Christopher Lee is more well known for Dracula that he played like 20 times. And for Scaramanga in Man with a Golden Gun.

Harvey Lee

Joe Dante 's imagination went absolutely hog wild with this one🤯 Bloody hell !!! absolutely Bonkers and awesome 😆 One of the best horror sequels Glad to be here for it Jen .😎🤘

Helly R

Jerry Goldsmith cameo - white haired guy @ 40:49

Rhom

ok if you like gooey horror, i'll suggest The Stuff. It's also kind of a satire and very, very messy

Chris Biebel

Okay, I have to start with when I saw this in the theater. A few years earlier I had seen Aliens in the theater and during the scene where they take the car thing in to rescue to marines the scene was jumping up and down like crazy. I thought, "Gee, this is a crazy effect." It wasn't an effect. The film was jamming in the projector. Since I had that previous experience, I was completely primed for the fake-out in this film. I didn't realize it was fake until I saw the gremlin shadows. Yes, Howie Mandel did the voice of Gizmo in the first movie. One joke that probably went over your head was when Gizmo saw the janitor who was working on the water fountain, Gizmo yelled "Gomez!" The actor in question was John Astin who played Gomez in the original Addams Family TV show. The Lincoln's Birthday gag was a nod to her "Why I hate Christmas" speech in the first movie. You haven't watched the show yet, but the guy who ended up with the female Gremlin was a cast member on Star Trek Voyager (although you did see him in an episode of DS9. It was the one where they were going to make a holographic doctor version of Bashir).

Helly R

Gremlins 3 is supposedly coming 2028, with mostly puppets and directed by Chris Columbus (who wrote the first one). I have no idea where you go from here, though.

To Wa

This is one I've been waiting for...

JaylaSiobhanClark (edited)

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2026-11-10 12:00 I'm going to admit it... I like this one better than the original. John Glover is ... interesting as Daniel Clamp, in that we completely know _who_ he's primarily spoofing (DJT) but I think he took a lot more from Ted Turner. Including the videotape that is set to air at the end of the world; there _is_ a videotape at CNN that is directed to be played by "the last surviving staff member at CNN when the end of the world is confirmed". It's never been updated since CNN Time Warner bought out Turner in the late 90's, though. Adding a few things about the cameos -- Leonard Maltin did have that negative a review of the first Gremlins and Joe Dante did ask him to be in the movie precisely because of that. He gave this movie 3 stars out of 4 for the satirical tone of it. (Though you could consider him biased?) Don and Dan Stanton you may recall from Terminator 2. It's completely ironic to me that Hulk Hogan was in this movie when he ended up working for Ted Turner and WCW 4 years later. (It's ALSO ironic that Daniel and Marla get together around the time that Donald had an affair with Marla Maples, because production pre-dated public knowledge of all that.) But you know what we got on VHS? John Wayne via stock footage and an impersonator getting into a Western style shootout.
2026-11-10 05:23 I'm going to admit it... I like this one better than the original. John Glover is ... interesting as Daniel Clamp, in that we completely know _who_ he's primarily spoofing (DJT) but I think he took a lot more from Ted Turner. Including the videotape that is set to air at the end of the world; there _is_ a videotape at CNN that is directed to be played by "the last surviving staff member at CNN when the end of the world is confirmed". It's never been updated since CNN Time Warner bought out Turner in the late 90's, though. Adding a few things about the cameos -- Leonard Maltin did have that negative a review of the first Gremlins and Joe Dante did ask him to be in the movie precisely because of that. He gave this movie 3 stars out of 4 for the satirical tone of it. (Though you could consider him biased?) Don and Dan Stanton you may recall from Terminator 2. It's completely ironic to me that Hulk Hogan was in this movie when he ended up working for Ted Turner and WCW 4 years later. (It's ALSO ironic that Daniel and Marla get together around the time that Donald had an affair with Marla Maples, because production pre-dated public knowledge of all that.) But you know what we got on VHS? John Wayne via stock footage and an impersonator getting into a Western style shootout. And one very VERY belated note on voices -- in addition to Frank Welker who voiced the Mohawk Gremlin and also 40 percent of my childhood, one of the Gremlin voices was Kirk Thatcher. That's right, Punk on Bus from Star Trek 4, director of A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie for NBC, and a longtime associate producer with multiple other Muppet projects. AND the Lead Singer and Guitarist for Edge of Etiquette, which only ever produced two songs. One of which is named "I Hate You" and was _played_ on the bus by Punk on Bus.

I'm going to admit it... I like this one better than the original. John Glover is ... interesting as Daniel Clamp, in that we completely know _who_ he's primarily spoofing (DJT) but I think he took a lot more from Ted Turner. Including the videotape that is set to air at the end of the world; there _is_ a videotape at CNN that is directed to be played by "the last surviving staff member at CNN when the end of the world is confirmed". It's never been updated since CNN Time Warner bought out Turner in the late 90's, though. Adding a few things about the cameos -- Leonard Maltin did have that negative a review of the first Gremlins and Joe Dante did ask him to be in the movie precisely because of that. He gave this movie 3 stars out of 4 for the satirical tone of it. (Though you could consider him biased?) Don and Dan Stanton you may recall from Terminator 2. It's completely ironic to me that Hulk Hogan was in this movie when he ended up working for Ted Turner and WCW 4 years later. (It's ALSO ironic that Daniel and Marla get together around the time that Donald had an affair with Marla Maples, because production pre-dated public knowledge of all that.) But you know what we got on VHS? John Wayne via stock footage and an impersonator getting into a Western style shootout. And one very VERY belated note on voices -- in addition to Frank Welker who voiced the Mohawk Gremlin and also 40 percent of my childhood, one of the Gremlin voices was Kirk Thatcher. That's right, Punk on Bus from Star Trek 4, director of A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie for NBC, and a longtime associate producer with multiple other Muppet projects. AND the Lead Singer and Guitarist for Edge of Etiquette, which only ever produced two songs. One of which is named "I Hate You" and was _played_ on the bus by Punk on Bus.

Nathan Cline

i BELEVE THE SECURITY GUARD WHO ARRESTED BILLY IN THE BASEMENT WAS ONE OF TOM HANKS MAIN NEIGHBORS IN BURBS, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES ROBERT PICARDO AND THE GUY WHO PLAYS MR FUTTERMAN

JS in Vegas

If you’re in a Looney Tunes mood, Coyote vs. Acme would be a fun reaction 😊

Darryl Low

hehe this was so much fun to watch with you Jen 😊 It's a complete riot of a movie that doesn't let up. I can always remember the first time I saw this film as it was released here in the UK on my birthday in 1990 and we went to watch it in the afternoon. I genuinely thought the movie had burnt out in the middle. It was done so convincingly and then the crazy gremlins take over and the whole audience was in stitches 😄 A lot of folks here have mentioned most of the gags in the film, but 2 more are : When Christopher Lee walks into the lab holding the big green pod, it's a nod to the seedpods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And also, if you listen carefully to the doors opening in Clamp's office, it's the sound effect for the Enterprise's doors opening from the original Trek series 😄 Thanks for a really awesome reaction today Jen 😊

Matt

If you wanna watch some looney tunes the new Coyote vs Acme film is pretty decent, I think you would really enjoy it

Gary Cameron

No one mentioned Robert Picardo - WITH HAIR! A rich, thick, luxurious head of hair!