Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joe Dante
Produced by Michael Finnell
Steven Spielberg
Rick Baker
Written by Charles S. Haas
Starring Zach Galligan
Phoebe Cates
John Glover
Robert Prosky
Robert Picardo
Christopher Lee
Haviland Morris
Dick Miller
Roger Garth
Jackie Joseph
Gedde Watanabe
Keye Luke
Eric Shawn
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography John Hora
Editing by Kent Beyda
Studio Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) June 15, 1990 (US)
Running time 106 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $50,000,000
Gross revenue $41,482,207
Preceded by Gremlins

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 American comedy horror film, and a sequel to Gremlins (1984). It was directed by Joe Dante and written by Charles S. Haas, with creature designs by Rick Baker. It stars Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Haviland Morris, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, Robert Picardo and Christopher Lee; additionally, Frank Welker (who played Stripe in the first film) reprises his role as a gremlin.

The story continues the adventures of the creature Gizmo, who spawns numerous small monsters when wet. In the first film, Gizmo's offspring had rampaged through a small fictional town. In Gremlins 2, Gizmo multiplies within a skyscraper in New York City. The new creatures thus pose a serious threat to the city should they be able to leave the building, and much of the story involves the human characters' efforts to prevent this disaster.

Like the first film, Gremlins 2 is a live action comedy-horror film. However, Dante put effort into taking the sequel in new anarchic directions. The film is meant to be more cartoon-like than the darker original, and the violence is fairly slapstick. There are also a number of parodies of other films and stories, most notably Gremlins itself, as well as the Rambo films, The Wizard of Oz, Marathon Man and The Phantom of the Opera. As with the first film, critical response varied. Some critics who thought the first film was too dark gave Gremlins 2 better reviews, but it received a colder reception from fans who thought otherwise.

Contents

Plot

Several years after the destruction of Kingston Falls, the mogwai Gizmo, the source of the menacing Gremlins who destroyed the town, loses his home with the death of his owner Mr. Wing and the demolition of his antiques store. Gizmo is taken to the main office building of Clamp Enterprises in New York City, where coincidentally his old friend Billy Peltzer and his wife Kate work, Billy working in the design department and Kate is a tour guide. The owner of the company, eccentric Daniel Clamp arrives and befriends Billy, quickly impressed with his design skills. Billy's boss Marla Bloodstone also takes interest in Billy, and invites him to dinner. Beforehand, Billy rescues Gizmo from the research lab of the company's science division, run by Doctor Catheter. Gizmo is left in the office building for Kate to pick up, but he accidentally gets wet and spawns a new batch of Gremlins - duo George and Lenny, insane Daffy, and Mohawk, the reincarnation of the first film's antagonist Stripe. Billy and Kate learn of the spawning after accidentally taking Daffy home instead of Gizmo.

The next day, the Gremlins hatch from their cocoon forms after eating after midnight. While Mohawk attacks Billy and tortures Gizmo, the other Gremlins attack a cookery show and set off the room's sprinkler system and spawn a new army of Gremlins which go on a rampage around the building. It is revealed that the Gremlins can genetically change when drinking formulas when they invade the lab, one becoming the intelligent Brain Gremlin and becoming spokesman of the Gremlins. Another Gremlin gains the features of a bat, and the Brain Gremlin gives him "genetic sunblock", allowing the Bat Gremlin to fly outside in daylight without dying. The Bat Gremlin attacks the Futtermans, Billy's neighbours from Kingston Falls, but Murray Futterman covers it in cement, causing him to turn into a gargoyle. Television host Grandpa Fred talks with the Brain Gremlin who wants to live in New York. Part-way through the film, the Gremlins break the fourth wall and interrupt a cinema screening of the film, prompting Hulk Hogan to force them to put the film back on.

Billy, Doctor Catheter and the office's head of security Forster go to the lab to fend off the Gremlins but Forster flees when sexually attacked by a female Gremlin, and Doctor Catheter dies when an electrical Gremlin attacks, Billy later imprisoning it in Clamp's telephone. Billy and Clamp create a plan to lure the Gremlins into daylight by fooling them into believing it is night. Clamp escapes outside to the press via a hidden elevator via Billy's advice, Murray sneaking back in to help Billy. Kate and Marla become trapped in spider webs, created by Mohawk who has taken on a spider's body, but Gizmo, tortured to the brink of insanity, arrives and kills Mohawk by setting him on fire. The Brain Gremlin gathers the Gremlins in the office's lobby where they sing their own rendition of New York, New York. Billy gets Murray to soak the Gremlins in water and then sets loose the electrical Gremlin who fries the Gremlins and kills all of them, the Brain Gremlin dying last whilst singing in despair. In the aftermath, Clamp promotes Grandpa Fred as an anchorman, and the film ends with Billy, Kate, Gizmo and the Futtermans heading off with the Gremlins gone. The film ends revealing the female Gremlin survived and approaches Forster in a bathroom with the intention of marrying him.

Cast

and director Joe Dante himself as the director of Grandpa Fred's show, Beanie Gremlin and Wicked Witch Gremlin.

Looney Tunes segments

Along with the main plot, there is animation by Chuck Jones in the film featuring the Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. Jones had actually quit animation before returning to work on Gremlins 2.[1] Dante explained the animation at the beginning of the film was meant to "set the anarchic tone."[2] In his scenes, Daffy breaks the fourth wall when he forcefully tries to insert himself into the title and ending sequences, following the same formula that the Pink Panther films followed with the character of The Pink Panther. At the beginning of the film, he stops the music and tries to overthrow Bugs Bunny to ride the Warner Bros. shield, only for it to malfunction horrendously. Daffy also interrupts the end credits with sardonic humor. He calls the credits really long and wonders aloud why anyone would still be in the theatre during the credits. The ending has Daffy trying to usurp Porky Pig to say the closing line, only to be hit by another shield.

The DVD includes a longer version of the cartoon short. In it, Daffy is informed by Bugs that he has been promoted to executive and is subsequently put in charge writing the title of the movie. When Daffy mistakenly writes the title Gremlins 2 as "Gremlin Stew", Bugs corrects the error. Daffy then attempts to rename the film The Return of Super-Daffy Meets Gremlins 2 Part 6: The Movie, but Bugs rejects this for being too long, changing it back to Gremlins 2 (rendered in the font of the official logo). Daffy then quits his new job and Bugs decides to add in the subtitle, saying it looks "a little skimpy". This material was removed from the film because early audiences expected a live-action film and were bewildered by the lengthy animated sequence.[3]

Production

Background

The original Gremlins was a financial success, and Warner Bros. asked its director Joe Dante to make a sequel straight away. Dante declined, because he saw Gremlins as having a proper ending, and thus a sequel would only be meant to be profitable. Moreover, the original film was a taxing experience for Dante, and he wanted to move on. Work on Gremlins 2 continued without him, as the studio approached various directors and writers. Storylines considered included sending the gremlins to cities like Las Vegas or even the planet Mars. After these ideas fell through, the studio returned to Dante, who agreed to make the sequel after receiving the rare promise of having complete creative control over the movie; he also received a budget triple that of the original film's. Dante later acknowledged that by this point too much time had passed between the films, thus possibly reducing Gremlins 2's appeal.[4]

The film was released in 1990, and as the filmmakers later noted, this was a time when cable television, genetics, and frozen yogurt were becoming more common and influential. This left a mark on Gremlins 2. Gremlins 2 exaggerated what could be seen on cable television at the time, although as the filmmakers noted in 2002, that humour might be lost on present-day audiences. Cable television later grew to provide the same variety. Genetics in 1990 is reflected in the laboratory seen in Gremlins 2, and frozen yogurt is what the mogwai eat after midnight.[2]

Plotting

With more control over the film, Dante engineered a project that he later referred to as "one of the more unconventional studio pictures, ever". Dante included some material that he believed Warner Bros. would not have allowed had they not wanted a sequel to Gremlins. Allowed to break a number of rules in filmmaking, he also later claimed it was the film into which he had put the most of his personal influence. Dante imagined Gremlins 2 as a satire of Gremlins and sequels in general. Another basic description of Gremlins 2 was that, as Dante said, an hour into the film it becomes "extremely cartoony".[2]

The recommended screenwriter, Charlie Haas, brought to the project the basic storyline of moving the gremlins to New York City, and he also imagined a corporate head (the character Clamp) being Billy's boss and at the center of the new disaster. When the Warner Bros. executives grew concerned about the expense of portraying the gremlins attacking an entire city, Haas came up with the idea of confining the action within Daniel Clamp's "smart building". Haas also included a great deal of material in his screenplay that proved too elaborate to produce, including having a cow–hamster hybrid running on a treadmill in the laboratory.[2]

In keeping with Dante's desires to satirize the original film, the sequel has some meta-references and self-referential humor. These include a cameo appearance by film critic Leonard Maltin. He holds up a copy of the original Gremlins video and denounces it, just as he had in reality; however, his rant is cut short when gremlins pounce on him. Partly for this scene, one academic called Dante "one of contemporary cinema's great pranksters".[5]

Additionally, when Billy is trying to explain the safety precautions regarding the mogwai to staff in the building, the staff find them quite absurd and interrogate Billy on the application of the rules. This scene originates from the fact that the filmmakers themselves saw the rules as irrational, and some questions in the scene were based upon those raised by fans of the original film.[2]

At one point in the film, Dante attempted to involve his audience in the story by making it seem as if the gremlins had taken control of the theatre where Gremlins 2 was showing. The film strip appears to be broken by the gremlins, who then engage in shadow puppetry over a white screen. Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan then appears in a cameo appearance and intimidates the gremlins into running the rest of Gremlins 2. This joke was inspired by a similar stunt in William Castle's film The Tingler (1959). The studio feared that people might leave the theatre if they thought the film had broken; Dante therefore secured the inclusion of the sequence by assembling some people for a preview of the film. When the scene was shown, the real-life audience found it enjoyable and stayed in the theatre. Dante later described this scene as one of the most widely enjoyed jokes in Gremlins 2. When Gremlins 2 made its debut on home video, the filmmakers altered the scene, to make it seem as if the viewer's VCR had been broken by the gremlins. This time actor John Wayne forces the gremlins into continuing the film, although voice impersonation was needed since Wayne had been dead since 1979.[2] Notably, a clip from Falling Hare, a film released in 1943 featuring Bugs Bunny and a gremlin, appears in this version.

The original version of the film was longer, but executive producer Steven Spielberg claimed that there were too many gremlins, and several scenes were cut as a result. One deleted scene portrayed three of the main gremlins, Daffy, Lenny, and George, sneaking into television host Grandpa Fred's studio and "helping" him host, acting on the premise that Grandpa Fred's show was intended to be scary.[3]

Casting

Several actors from the original film returned to make Gremlins 2, including Galligan, Cates, and Dick Miller. Miller reprised his role as Billy's neighbor Mr. Futterman, who the gremlins severely injured (both physically and mostly mentally) in the first film, in an expanded role in this film. In the second, he plays a part in wiping out the creatures by turning the hose on them. Character actress Jackie Joseph returned to play Mr. Futterman's wife. Keye Luke also returned to play Mr. Wing, Gizmo's original owner. When Luke heard his character would die in Gremlins 2, he quipped, "Remember, when you make Gremlins 3, I'm a flashback!". Hoyt Axton was meant to return as Billy's father, the inventor. He would have appeared at the end of the film, having designed special clothing for Gizmo that would ensure Gizmo would never come into contact with water again. At the last moment, the filmmakers decided not to shoot the scene to reduce time.[2]

New performers included Robert Picardo, who had previously worked with Dante and producer Michael Finnell in films such as The Howling (1981). He plays Forster, one of Billy's crueler bosses. Robert Prosky played Grandpa Fred, a television host, and his character was based upon Al Lewis's character Grandpa Munster. Joe Dante has a brief cameo as the director of Grandpa Fred's show. John Glover played Clamp and brought to the role an enthusiastic innocence that overrode the fact that his character had been written as a villain, which Dante thought lightened the film in general.[2]

Christopher Lee (who previously worked with Spielberg in 1941) played the mad scientist Dr. Catheter. Lee imagined his role as light-hearted; but Dante encouraged him to portray the scientist as evil to better match the atmosphere of the laboratory set. Lee was revered on the set for his experience.[2] In a deleted scene, Dr. Catheter examines a bat injected with "genetic sun-block". He then says to his colleague, "I'm told they sometimes feed on blood"; this is a reference to Lee's performances as Count Dracula in the Hammer Horror films.[3] Later, as the Bat Gremlin is transforming, Dr. Catheter experiences Deja-vu (the audience hears Dracula music).

Special effects

Director Joe Dante (left) holds a cardboard "Bat Gremlin", with actor Dick Miller (arms raised). A stop motion model replaced the cardboard gremlin in post-production.

For special effects, the original film relied on Chris Walas, who moved on to pursue a directing career. Dante turned to Academy Award-winner Rick Baker to create the effects for Gremlins 2. Baker was not interested, as he saw Gremlins 2 as too much work for a project in which he would not be the creator but rather a successor to Walas. He was eventually persuaded to accept the job when it was suggested he could make the gremlins and mogwai more diverse.[2]

In the first film, when Gizmo multiplied, his off-spring closely resembled himself, except for the leader, Stripe. Here, the four mogwai Gizmo produces each possess their own distinct personalities and physical features. Additionally, each mogwai has a name, although the names were used in the script and never spoken aloud in the film. Two of the mogwais were George, black without a stripe and a caricature of Edward G. Robinson, and Lenny, buck-toothed, named for the principal characters in Of Mice and Men, whom they resemble in both appearance and demeanor. Daffy was named for his manic behaviour, and the leader, Mohawk, for his mohawk hairstyle. Based on the original film's character, Stripe, Frank Welker also voices Mohawk. While both the mogwai and gremlin versions of Stripe had fur stripes, Baker hit upon the idea of giving the Mohawk mogwai a fur stripe and giving the Mohawk gremlin something scalier. Gizmo was also redesigned; the puppet was generally larger and its design was simplified. Dante commented Gizmo may look less real in Gremlins 2, but the result was that Gizmo could convey more emotion.[2]

Later on, when the mogwai evolve into gremlins and multiply, they further diversify by running amok in the bio-lab and ingesting various drugs. One turns into a sunlight-resistant hybrid with a bat, thus becoming the Bat Gremlin. Mohawk becomes part-spider. One becomes part-vegetable (Vegetable Gremlin, as Dante named it), and another consumes a drug and turns into a femlin, referred to in at least one script as the "Girl Gremlin" and in the official trading card series and other promotional materials as "Lady Gremlina" with shiny red lips and mascara. Yet another has acid thrown onto his face, quickly presenting a mask of the Phantom of the Opera.[2]

As with the first, puppetry was involved, and some of the puppets were mechanical. An actor holding a puppet would have to have wires strapped to him. Gremlins 2 also includes more stop motion animation than the first film; the Bat Gremlin was portrayed through some stop motion animation. Film technology since the original had improved, and as a result the creatures can be seen walking more. Gizmo is able to dance, although this scene took the longest to make. Because there are more gremlins in Gremlins 2 than the original, additional filming lasted five months. Many of the effects had to be completed after the actors had finished their work.[2]

Music

As with the first film, the music in Gremlins 2 was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, who also has a cameo in the film. Goldsmith dropped out of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in favor of this Gremlins sequel due to dismissing The Final Frontier as a failure. In the latter half of the film, Gizmo, inspired by the Rambo films and tired of the abuse he has suffered at the hands of the gremlins, takes revenge on Mohawk. Gizmo shoots the Mohawk spider-gremlin with a makeshift bow and flaming arrow. For the scene in which Gizmo prepares for this move, Goldsmith – who had also authored the music in the Rambo films – employed a variant of Gizmo's theme in the style of the Rambo theme.[2]

The scene featuring Mohawk transforming into a spider-like monster features a portion of the song "Angel of Death" by thrash metal band Slayer. In another scene, the Brain Gremlin leads hundreds of gremlins to sing Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York". Dante claimed that "The musical number is a shameless steal" from the film Dames (1934).[6]

When the Bat Gremlin flies out of the Clamp building after being injected with sunblock solution, a sample of the action music from the film The 'Burbs (1989) plays, also directed by Joe Dante and composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Gremlins 2 also prominently features "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. Another rock music appearance with the song "Sling Shot" by Jeff Beck occurs midway through the movie when the Gremlins are drinking various chemical mixtures altering their structure.

Songlist

Reception

Film critics varied in their reviews of Gremlins 2, it scored a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert, who had approved of the first film, observed that Gremlins 2 was meant to satirize sequels. Nevertheless, he felt it did not manage to differentiate itself from the original enough and was not as good. He went on to claim that the film lacks a well-constructed plot, and once the gremlins arrived the film simply becomes a "series of gags." He thus gave the film two and a half stars, out of a possible four.[7] Hal Hinson of The Washington Post caught on to how the Looney Tunes animation is meant to imply "anarchic wit," but nevertheless felt both the cartoon short and the film itself are failures. He saw the beginning as too slow and, like Ebert, thought the film is too similar to the first. Hinson did, however, approve of the characterization of the gremlins and their version of "New York, New York." He also noted that turning the gremlins against Clamp resembles anti-corporate "poetic justice."[1]

In contrast, while one reviewer for Films in Review, like Ebert, argued the film resembles the original and abandons its plot when the gremlins arrive, he also felt the film's appeal could be found partly in its self-consciousness of these facts and its in-jokes and satire. He also complimented Cates as "wholesomely bewitching," and Galligan as "a suitably naive foil for the scaly fiends."[8] Desson Howe of The Washington Post also approved of the film, including its special effects and the parodies of Trump, Turner, genetics labs, cable television, and the film Marathon Man.[9] (Marathon Man is parodied when the gremlin Daffy abducts Billy and tries to torture him with dental tools.)

Some critics thought the film has qualities the original lacked, such as wit. A critic for National Review called the film "much freer and wittier than the first one," though he felt the sequel shies away from becoming an important piece of satire.[10] The cover of an issue of Entertainment Weekly in July 1990 also exclaimed that "actor John Glover... and director Joe Dante made Gremlins 2 wittier, better, and more subversive than the original." Some critics who found the first film too dark also gave Gremlins 2 more positive reviews. Leonard Maltin, who appears in the film, gave it three out of four stars for its references to other films, Glover's imitation of Turner and Trump, and Lee's performance.[11] An Allmovie critic complimented the sequel by saying the "original's violence and mean-spiritedness are gone, making this follow-up somewhat more kid-friendly."[12]

The film was nominated for several Saturn Awards, namely for Best Director, Best Fantasy Film, Best Music, and Best Special Effects. Glover and Picardo were both nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award.

Still, the film did not perform as well at the box office. The trailer introduced the film to audiences by displaying a surface of water intercut with scenes from the original. A narrator goes over the rules regarding how to safely handle mogwai. After the narrator says, "You didn't listen [to the rules]," scenes from the sequel are shown, revealing the gremlins morphing into strange new creatures and then ending with the Brain Gremlin speaking.[13] Gremlins 2 was released on June 15, 1990. In its first weekend it made $9,702,804, and it ultimately made $41,482,207 in the United States.[14] It was thus only the thirty-first highest grossing film of the year, behind a few other films in the comedy, horror or fantasy genre, such as Back to the Future Part III ($87,727,583), Edward Scissorhands ($56,362,352), and Arachnophobia ($53,208,180). It did, however, outperform Predator 2 ($30,669,413), Child's Play 2 ($28,501,605) and The Exorcist III ($26,098,824).[15]

Gremlins 2 also played in other countries. Canadian audiences reportedly enjoyed one scene in which Billy and his boss meet at a Canadian-themed restaurant, where the waiters are dressed like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[2] The film was released in Norway on July 5, Finland on July 6, Colombia on July 12, and much of Europe in the rest of July, including in the United Kingdom and Spain on July 27. It opened in France and Argentina in August and reached Australia on September 20.[16] It earned £7,400,000 in the United Kingdom. Later, the film made an additional $20,800,000 in rental stores.[17]

Unlike the PG-rated predecessor, the MPAA rated Gremlins 2 PG-13, but it should be noted that the sequel is often considered lighter than the former, and that the first Gremlins is one of the movies that helped to create the PG-13 rating.

In the DVD commentaries for both the original film and the sequel, director Joe Dante stated that he felt that Gremlins 2 was a case of waiting too long to capitalize on the success of the original, which hurt the sequel's chances of success.

Merchandising

As with the first film, merchandising accompanied Gremlins 2. This may have been integral to the film's purpose. As one critic wrote, "it's a savvy, off-the-wall comedy that acknowledges, yes, it is just one more silly rip-off sequel, produced to sell off the merchandise inspired by the first film."[8] One reference the film makes to the original, an allusion to the merchandising surrounding Gizmo, drew criticism. Some critics saw the mention of merchandise as tasteless. This type of product placement has since become more common.[2]

The new merchandise released alongside the film included PVC figures, plush, and other collectibles by the now-defunct Applause company in 1990. Much later, action figures by the National Entertainment Collectibles Association based on characters such as the Brain and Mohawk Gremlins were released. There were also children's books like Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Movie Storybook, by Michael Teitelbaum, published by Goldencraft in December 1990. Golden Books published Gizmo to Rescue in July 1990.[18] David Bischoff wrote a novel based on the film published by Avon Books in June 1990. A unique aspect of the novel is how Bischoff adapts the sequence where the film breaks. In the novel, the Brain Gremlin subdues and locks Bischoff in his bathroom before taking the reins for a little bit to explain that the Gremlins take over at this point in the film, his displeasure at Bischoff using the nickname "Mr. Glasses" instead of his official name, and begins a treatise on politics before Bischoff breaks his way out of the bathroom with an axe and subdues the Brain Gremlin. The novel then continues where the film picked up after the film break.

The Spanish company Topo Soft developed a sidescrolling Gremlins 2: The New Batch video game for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the ZX Spectrum, distributed by Erbe Software in Spain and by Elite abroad, being the first time a Spanish videogame company got an exclusive license from a Hollywood movie to make a videogame.[19] Hi-Tech Expressions also released a DOS game at around the same time, but it was poorly received. Sunsoft released versions for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy in 1990.[20][21] In the NES game, the player controls Gizmo through various levels in the building, armed with weapons ranging from the genetically-modified super tomato in the laboratory to the new matchstick-firing bow in the later sections. The Game Boy game was a side-scroller also featuring Gizmo. The Topo Soft game had featured Billy Peltzer using a wide variety of weapons (flashlights, tomatoes, Frisbees and the like) to dispatch of Gremlin adversaries. The Hi-Tech game had Billy roaming the floors of Clamp Centre hunting down the Gremlins.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hal Hinson, "Gremlins 2: The New Batch," The Washington Post, June 15, 1990.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 DVD commentary; Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Warner Home Video, 2002.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 DVD commentary, "Additional Scenes," Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Warner Home Video, 2002.
  4. ↑ DVD commentary; Steven Spielberg presents Gremlins. Special edition. Warner Home Video, 2002.
  5. ↑ Christopher Kelly, "Toys in the Attic: The Unsung Pleasures (And Terrors) of 'Babe: Pig in the City' and 'Small Soldiers'," Film Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 4. (Summer, 2000), p. 44.
  6. ↑ Lou Cedrone and The Baltimore Evening Sun, "Gremlins 2 hit, suiting Dante just fine: Director happy to taste success again after disappointing Burbs," The Windsor Star, June 22, 1990, pg. C.5.
  7. ↑ Roger Ebert, "Gremlins 2: The New Batch," Chicago Sun-Times, June 15, 1990.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Edmond Grant, "Gremlins 2," Films in Review, October 1990, vol. 41, issue 10, pp. 485–487.
  9. ↑ Desson Howe, "Gremlins 2: The New Batch," The Washington Post, June 15, 1990.
  10. ↑ John Simon, "Who Needs People?" National Review, August 6, 1990, vol. 42, issue 15, pp. 48–50.
  11. ↑ Leonard Maltin, ed., Leonard Maltin's 2002 Movie & Video Guide. A Signet Book, 2001, pp. 557–558.
  12. ↑ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch," Allmovie. URL accessed 22 May 2006.
  13. ↑ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch, in Theatrical Trailers, in the DVD Steven Spielberg presents Gremlins. Special edition. Warner Home Video, 2002.
  14. ↑ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch," Box Office Mojo. URL accessed 19 May 2006.
  15. ↑ "1990 Domestic Grosses," Box Office Mojo. URL accessed 19 May 2006.
  16. ↑ "Release dates for Gremlins 2: The New Batch" The Internet Movie Database, URL accessed 20 May 2006.
  17. ↑ "Business Data for Gremlins 2: The New Batch" The Internet Movie Database, URL accessed 20 May 2006.
  18. ↑ Gremlins 12" Roto-Cast Brain Action Figure by NECA, Amazon.com, URL accessed 22 May 2006; Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Movie Storybook (Hardcover) by Michael Teitelbaum, Amazon.com, URL accessed 22 May 2006; Gizmo To Rescue Look-Look Book (Gremlins 2 : the New Batch) (Paperback) by Jim Razzi, Gene Biggs, Kim Ellis (Illustrator) Amazon.com, URL accessed 22 May 2006.
  19. ↑ http://encanta.avalonsoftware.org/idgaw/11/noticias.php
  20. ↑ MobyGames. "Gremlins 2: The New Batch - MobyGames". MobyGames - A Game Documentation and Review Project. MobyGames. pp. 1. http://www.mobygames.com/game/gremlins-2-the-new-batch. Retrieved 2006-05-23. "Gremlins 2: The New Batch... Released 1990 Platforms Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum" "
  21. ↑ MobyGames. "Gremlins 2: The New Batch for NES - MobyGames". MobyGames - A Game Documentation and Review Project. MobyGames. pp. 1. http://www.mobygames.com/game/gremlins-2-the-new-batch__. Retrieved 2007-04-02. "Gremlins 2: The New Batch... Released 1990 Platform NES" "

External links

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