Gremlins 2: The New Batch – Review

Harry Russell on Gremlins 2

Written by Harry Russell

Set in the sleepy town of Kingston Falls, Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) sees Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) accidentally unleash the murderous gremlins when he fails to follow the key rules of the mogwai. After finally dealing with the threat Billy must return the initial mogwai, Gizmo, and learn a lesson in responsibility spurred by his father’s unthinking gifting. Gremlins is a Christmas film first and foremost. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990) is not.

Gremlins 2 sees Billy and his now fiancé Kate (Phoebe Cates) living in New York, both working different jobs in the high-tech Clamp Center, when one day Billy stumbles across Gizmo in a genetics laboratory, having been abducted after the death of his owner. Inevitably Gizmo ends up spawning more mogwai, who are of course unabashedly evil and immediately seek out food so as to reach their most destructive gremlin…

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