Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!! 

This movie was just pure chaos! I need a whole sequel dedicated to Rambo Gizmo! Thank you all for the support!

Little fun fact: Leonard Maltin, the (real-life) movie reviewer who gets attacked by the Gremlins, absolutely trashed the first movie, but agreed to make a cameo in the second one and re-read his own review. Very meta!

The director, Joe Dante did not want to do a sequel,Warner Brothers kept asking him. He finally relented when they threatened to hire someone else to make it. He asked for completely creative controll. And his idea was to turn it into basically a Live action/puppet Looney toons film.

"Gremlins 2" is basically a live-action cartoon. So many funny parts but I love the bottle labeled "Acid. Do not throw in face" and "Phantom Of The Opera" gag.

_"Fire: The Untamed Element, Oldest of Man's Mysteries, Giver of Warmth, Destroyer of Forests! Right Now This Building is on Fire!"_ The Clamp building fire alarm kills me every time.

As Billy is leading Kate away during her Lincoln's Birthday story Zach Galligan just starts to crack up before they cut away.

This movie made me cry of laughter as a kid. The "alarm" made by the Gremlins makes me laugh SO HARD even today xD

Key and Peele have a comedy skit where they act out the pitch meeting for this movie. It’s amazing 😂😂😂

The scene with the dentist gremlin torturing Billy and asking “Is it safe?”, is a parody of the movie Marathon Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Check it out, great suspense thriller from the 70’s.👍

"Are mimes illegal?!" Everyone, everywhere: "THEY SHOULD BE!"

Christopher Lee also played one of the best Draculas ever in "The Horror of Dracula" (1958, produced by the famous Hammer Film company)

The VHS release actually made an entirely different segment since the scene with Hulk Hogan wasn't quite so immersive anymore. Instead, it looks like your VCR is malfunctioning and chewing up the tape, until stock footage of John Wayne arrives to set things straight.

Jerry Goldsmith, the composer for Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, also scored First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Rambo III, so he reused his Rambo score for the Rambo Gizmo scene. Goldsmith was one of the greatest composers of his time, along with John Williams. He's probably most famous for his score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also reused his 1979 Klingon Attack theme for Worf in Star Trek: First Contact, and his Patton score in The 'Burbs. As a composer Goldsmith fits very well in meta humor :).

This movie is silly, ridiculous, and insane, and I love it! Your right "F**k it, let's just do it" was the motto of this movie. 😆

I love how often Samantha figures things out before they happen in movies (only on a rare occasion I've been anticipating how you'll react to a plot twist or something but then she kinda spoils herself by guessing it correctly, lol, but otherwise I'm impressed) - she kinda helped you mentally prepare for the spider gremlin in this one! haha

I don't know if anyone commented about the Gizmo torture from the first movie (maybe I did, who remembers?) but the story is that the Gizmo puppet was really difficult to operate and broke down all the time. It became a gallows humor kind of release for the crew to come up with creative ways to torture and mutilate Gizmo and a lot of the more outlandish ideas were filmed for the movie, although not all of them went in due to their disturbing and graphic nature. There's a snippet of Gizmo torture in this one as a callback but Joe Dante and Co. had other fish to fry. :) Dante says he resisted the idea of a "Gremlins" sequel for years and Warner Bros. tried to make it without him but nobody ever came up with an idea for it so finally they went back to Dante and offered him the opportunity to do whatever he wanted with a "Gremlins" sequel and he took the money and ran with it, resulting in this movie. He put in all his friends and favorite character actor types (like Christopher Lee and Kathleen Freeman and Robert Picardo and Robert Prosky and Dick Miller, obviously) most of whom only had to drop in for a few days to shoot their bits. By contrast the gremlin chaos unit shot for months and months and months. In hindsight Dante figured they wouldn't have been able to make a practical "Gremlins" movie had they done it any later than they did. "Jurassic Park" was on the horizon which would fling open the floodgates for CGI special effects and make practical effects old hat, even though a lot of the stuff in "Jurassic Park" was actually practical rather than computer generated. Somehow I always forget about the talking building. LMAO!! As much as I enjoy this, it's sad to think that NOBODY went to see it back in the day. It was a very expensive failure for the studio. :(

This is a brilliant satire movie of 80’s corporate business, and hilarious on so many levels. So glad you reacted to this!

One of my favorite gags was naming the redhead "Marla".Especially at the end when Daniel Clamp noticed her and said her name,it got a big laugh at the showing I went to.At the time,the news was awash with the stories of Marla Maples,mistress (and later wife) of a certain NYC billionaire who would later be president.

Okay, I got a story about this movie. I saw it in the Theater with my Dad, we'd go to movies sometimes. The movie we saw prior to this one (I forget but possibly Back to the Future Part 2?) had an issue with the projector and had to stop for a bit, so when "the scene" in Gremlins 2 happens with the movie reel getting screwed up my Dad and I both thought it was real! It was amazing.

Fun Fact: Christopher Lee played Saruman in LOTR and the maintenance man is John Astin, father to Sean Astin, who played Sam in LOTR. (John also played Gomez Addams in the Addams Family tv show).

"What psychopath came up with these designs?" Others might have mentioned this, but you should definitely watch (and react) to Key and Peele's Gremlins 2 sketch.

You should watch "Innerspace" from the same director. Lots of the same character actors popping up. Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, Kathleen Freeman, Henry Gibson. There's a sign on the wall in this movie for the lab from that movie: Vectorscope (alongside a sign referencing the British Sci-fi character Dr Quatermass).

This is one of my favorite movies! I actually met John Glover (Daniel Clamp) last weekend at the Mississippi Comic Con and he was such an absolute gem of a person. He’s so funny and friendly.

I totally agree.....this movie is very self-aware and all over the place. Also the practical creature effects have definitely stood the test of time. Thanks for the fun reaction!

"Ah, must be my malaria" - still one of the best lines in cinema history.

Fun Fact... This movie was the first time the word "smart" as in tech was used. We now have smart phones, smart TVs, Smart refrigerators, smart toasters. This movie is the first time that "smart" was used that way. Phoebe, while doing her tour refers to the building as a "smart" building. Including the quotes...

The best sequel Hollywood has ever put out which is ironically the one that was accomplished with the director having free creative control. 👏🏼

You not remembering the name Gizmo, makes me feel ancient. Forgetting Gizmo from the height of his popularity is like forgetting the name ""Harry Potter" today. But one day you'll probably be watching reaction videos and kids born in the 2030s will be struggling to remember Her? Hermon? Hiney? lol

One of the greatest 4th Wall breaks ever.

That guy at the beginning is actually Robert Picardo who plays most famously THE DOCTOR in Star Trek Voyager Also was in STARGATE and a film I really wish someone would react to called INNER SPACE

Gizmo had screen time, electric shock, Lego gremlin, train track, printer/copier, spider, training, desk, creating the new batch, air ducts, in the box. Sam Wang was old guy. His childhood story is coming May 23 Called 'Adventures of the Mogawai'

Rick Baker took over the creature effects from Chris Walas (who was directing THE FLY 2 at this time), but Baker originally declined to do the film, as the Gremlins weren't his own designs and he already knew how much work it would end up being. Director Joe Dante and writer Charlie Haas then added in the genetic lab subplot, so Baker could literally "reinvent" his own style of Gremlins.

"is gizmo just going to get tortured the whole movie?" to survive war....... you gotta become war....

Mohawk is the reincarnation of Stripe. Instead of leading the gremlins like he did in the first one he’s just out to get revenge on Gizmo for killing him in his previous life

Probably the most meta movie ever made. I hated it when I first saw it, but it grew on me over the years. Still waiting for Gremlins 3...

If they do make a third one, Daniel Clamp HAS to be president! I've always had a soft spot for this movie, and I think I actually saw it before the first one! The animatronic FX are so good because multi-Oscar winner Rick Baker supervised them. He originally turned the project down because he didn't want to follow someone else's work (Chris Walas did the gremlin FX in the first one), but changed his mind when he was allowed to create characters out of the gremlins, rather than have them be generic monsters. And he went nuts with it, just like the director & co did with the rest of the film!

Your correct, the messenger was Raymond Cruz that played Tuco on Breaking Bad. If you pay close attention though you'll notice the Swat leader at the end that shot the dead gremlin is Dean Norris that also played on Breaking Bad as Hank Schrader.

"He can broad....broad.....broadcast." You ok there, Samantha?

So when I went to see this in theaters the power went out before the movie started. The theater gave everyone passes to see their next movie for free. I chose to use my pass in another attempt to see this movie. You can imagine my reaction when the melting film gag occurred. By the time "you've gotta be f'n kidding me" popped into my head the Gremlins were making those hand shadows on the screen. Priceless.

The character of "Grampa Fred" in this was played by Robert Prosky , who was the projectionist in Last Action Hero. The character was a spoof of Al Lewis's "Grampa Munster" character from the 60s tv show The Munsters. You see, at the time this movie was made, Al Lewis had a job hosting a weekend "creature feature" show dressed up as his "Grampa' character.

25:04 "This could literally not get any worse" Me knowing Mohawk is about to drink spider potion - 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The only thing I remember from the original Gremlins was when one of them grew wings and Slayer's "Angel of Death" started playing. Such a wonderfully jarring moment in an essentially kids film lol. More than 25 years ago...sheesh...

According to the book, the names of Gizmos "children" were Daffy (the crazy goofy one), Lenny (the buck tooth one), George (the always upset looking one), and Mohawk (obvious). Mohawk was also the one to turn into a spider. The female Gremlin at the end was named Greta.

A funny thing about the "end of civilization" reel is that it was revealed a few years ago that CNN really did have a prerecorded clip to play in case the world was ending.

I completely forgot how hilarious (and ridiculous) this 2nd one was until I laughed constantly along with you two through the whole thing 😂😆

Christopher Lee was awesome! A little known fact about him is that he knew some Finnish, like Tolkien, who used many languages, also Finnish, in LOTR. Actually, the names, places and words came first and the plot for LOTR later. But Mr Lee liked Finland so much that he enlisted with other Brits to fight in our Winter War, from 1939 onwards. How cool is that? A valiant effort by a true gentleman and a fine actor. R.I.P.

I have always found this movie to be better than the original.

The movie was more of a comedy satire that plays into the the silliness of the “rules” of the first movie. The director Joe Dante just wanted to parody the first movie and go completely off-the-wall with the sequel.

The director was given $50 million by the studio which put it's trust in his "artistic vision." Last time this happened!

6:24 Grandpa Fred (Robert Prosky - You might remember him from Last Action Hero as Nick the owner of the movie theater) called it "The Attack of the Octopus People", but it's actually a movie from 1971 called Octaman.

“Why is no one reacting and helping him?” It’s New York. This is a regular Tuesday for most of them.

The line "Is it safe" and the whole dentist chair skit is a direct reference to the spy thriller Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman, where the main character gets tortured for information, the villains having tied him up on a dentist chair, drilling into his teeth, while repeating that line. I had seen Gremlins 2 multiple times and only realized that later, when I saw Marathon Man.

That one building was like Springfield from the Simpsons. Whatever the writers need, it exists there. All in the same building. Clamp was supposed to be more of a villain, but they changed it during filming to make him nicer and more helpful. Kind of weird there's no human villain in a corporate setting.

Maybe already mentioned, but the maintenance guy who got Gizmo wet with the drinking fountain was John Astin, best known as Gomez Addams from the Addams Family TV show in the 1960s. His son is Sean Astin, otherwise known as Samwise Gamgee from the Lord of the Rings.

8:40 Never realized that Gremlins 2 basically created the idea of Pikachu an electric rodent.

1.The ugly, mean-looking one is 'Butch' 2. The dopey one paired with him is 'George' 3.The orange one is 'Daffy' 4. 'Mohawk', the leader, is distinguished by the white hair flowing from his head then down his back(Stripe's reincarnation)

The lead Gremlins are based on old Cartoon Characters and Actors. The hyper one is supposed to be Donald Duck, the one with the big teeth is Goofy, the mean looking one with the big lips is the old actor Edward G. Robinson.

I recognized some of the cast from Innerspace. Another fun 80's scifi with Dennis Quad. Worth a watch imo.

Thank you. First, Phoebe Cates was my first childhood Hollywood crush because of this movie. Second, yes the Key and Peele sketch.

Warner Bros. was so desperate to do a Gremlins 2, the actually agreed to Joe Dante's demand to have sole creative control and this gloriously insane movie was the result. In turn, Dante's intention for Gremlins 2 was to ensure there was never a Gremlins 3 and 31 years later he's been successful so far. Glad you two loved Daniel Clamp. He's great. He was originally meant to be the villain and a mix of Donald Trump and Ted Turner. But John Glover played him as such an affable and likable guy so they re-wrote his role. (Also, Clamp's end of the world tape is based on an actual tape Ted Turner had made to broadcast on CNN in the even of the end of the world and can be found on RU-vid!)

"Are mimes illegal?" Oh, in a just world.... Jesus Christ, Phoebe Cates was cute. I'd suggest that the first Gremlins film WAS a kids' movie, just an '80s kids movie. They didn't coddle us. You ever see Young Sherlock Holmes? There's human sacrifice in that film, for god's sake!

You were right about that messenger guy - he played Tuco in Breaking Bad. Also, Christopher Lee played Saruman in Lord of the Rings, not Sauron. Easy mistake to make since they were the 2 big bad guys and their names are so similar.

I’m not sure if anyone has told y’all but Klamp Tower is based off Trump Tower lol. Also the old vampire is Grandpa Munster from The Munsters, & Leonard Malten is a real movie critic from this era who really gave Gremlins a bad review when it came out, so when they asked him to do a tongue & cheek cameo he agreed! This movie is full of pop culture references.

5:59 That's Henry Gibson, probably best known for "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," an SNL type show from the late 60s that also featured young Goldie Hawn. People would have recognized him, so the short wordless cameo was especially funny at the time.

Gremlins 2 is a CHRISTMAS movie!! Also HULKAMANIA STILL RULES!! I still remember when Hulk Hogan appeared on screen at movie theater pretty much everyone started laughing and cheering.

The little mogwai that was in the trash can was Mohawk, a reincarnation of the leader, Stripe, the villainous gremlin leader from the first movie!!!! Gizmo was absolutely toast when THIS new leader and his followers(George, the ugly one who came out the drawer first, Lenny, the goofy, clumsy, bucktoothed one, and Daffy, the crazy one with the orange-brown fur who constantly laughs) gang up and place him in the vent in the beginning.😮

The announcements over the intercom made me think of Airplane! "The white zone is for loading..."

The dentist scene with the psychotic gremlin is a direct parody of the famous torture scene from the 1976 classic Dustin Hoffman movie "Marathon Man". Hence the gremlin saying "Is it safe?"

Forster, the jerk who ends up with the female Gremlin, was played by Robert Picardo who is probably best known for playing the holographic doctor on Star Trek Voyager. He was also the voice and likeness of the robotic Johnny Cab driver in Total Recall, as well as doing a lot of work in full-body costumes, like the swamp hag in Legend, the aliens in Explorers, etc.

This is the first gremlins movie I ever saw (VHS rental from a store 15 miles away from home in rural Scotland in ~1992) when I was 9 years old - must have watched the movie 30+ times in the 5 days I had it! Loved it, never seen it since till now 😃

No one ever noticed the maintenence guy was John Astin who played Gomez in the Addams Family from the 60's

31:03 You spotted Tuco as the delivery man, but you missed Hank with the shotgun!

Also "Santa Claus the Movie" 1985 with Dudley Moore is a super wholesome Christmas film I'd love to see on your channel, one of my all time favourites :)

There is Key and Pelle sketch about how the script was written for Gremlins 2 that you should watch now that you have seeen the movie. It’s hilarious

A meta-satire ahead of it's time, _Gremlins 2_ is like a live-action _Simpsons_ episode. So underrated. If you dig it, Joe Dante & John Landis' 1987 comedy _Amazon Women On The Moon_ is worth adding to the list - one of the funniest films ever made.

Lol the talking Gremlin was always quoted by us after we first watched this movie. We kept quoting 'we dont taann we dont buurrrnn' randomly.

I'm sure it's been said before but you have to watch (or preferably react) to the Key and Peele gremlins 2 sketch. Comedy gold.

This is actually good as far as sequels go.

Kate and her story about the man that look like Abraham Lincoln in a raincoat...

Joe Dante said he never wanted to do a sequel, but because Warner wanted one so badly and grilled him about it, he said OK I'll do the movie as long as we get to go crazy and satirise everything!

Love you guys. This movie had me bursting into non-stop teary-eyed laughter as a kid and still does. Another horror sequel that is a bit more comedic than the first is the second Tremors movie Aftershocks. The first third or half is silliness (nowhere near the over-the-top insanity of Gremlins 2) before the horror kicks in. It is a very satisfying sequel.

Yeah, you’re right! That’s Tuco on Breaking Bad. Also, when he said he heard Gizmo’s singing in the laboratory, I chuckled. Chrystal meth popped into head 😂

Fun Fact: The woman who plays Mrs. Fudderman was Audrey in the original “Little Shop of Horrors” in 1960.

Just absolutely manic and I love it. Saw it at the cinema when it came out. I still remember the crowds reaction when the screen went white. Was a big lull and sigh. Then the gremlins popped up doing finger puppets. The crowd roared with laughter. This version is actually slightly different to the one I’ve seen. The other version has John Wayne instead of hulk hogan. And the gremlins are having a shoot out With John Wayne.

I like the first movie. I saw it as a child and was scared and fascinated by it. The second one came out when I was 15, and after seeing it a few times I grew to love it so much more for how off the wall ridiculous it is.

I saw this movie for the first time on VHS and the scene where the movie stops was different, showing those typical flaws of VHS tapes. I got up from the couch to try to get it straightened out and when I got close to the TV the gremlins appeared to laugh in my face. This was awesome!

This is the Key & Peele sketch mentioned below that pretty much imagines EXACTLY what you guys described at the end of your reaction, as far as what the pitch meeting for the sequel must’ve been like 😄 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x01l_jMhjVM.html

The musical number with the female Gremlin (Greta) singing, and the scene with her in a wedding dress at the end parody Miss Piggy's scenes in several of the Muppet movies.

I was lucky enough to get a ticket to a sneak preview the night before it officially opened. I was there along with a bunch of other fans of the first movie, knowing nothing about it other than that it was a sequel. We're watching the movie, thoroughly enjoying the ludicrous chaos of it all, when suddenly the film melts! Of all the luck, first day first showing and the film melts. I mean, what are the odds of... "Nudie nudie nudie!" Aargh! They got us! We all fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Which made it all the funnier.

Only realised last year that the red head is Caroline from Sixteen candles. Plus the camera nut is Long Duc Dong.

Maintenance man working on water fountain was John Astin (original 60's Gomez Addams, father of Goonies actor Sean Astin)

I still think that Gremlins 2 has one of the best jump scares in film history at 16:35. It literally goes from a joke with people laughing to "HOLY CRAP NO!" with almost no time to process what just happened.

One of my favorite "silly" movies. The references and self-burns throughout never fail to make me laugh. Glad you guys enjoyed it!

Perfect satire, with amazing creature effects

Clamp knows how to get things done, and he's a good guy. He's got my vote.

That building the film takes place in as far as the entrance anyway is 101 Park Ave. right off Grand Central Station. I know because I had an office job there as an intern. Inside it looks nothing like the film, unfortunately.

I noticed that they moved from the idea of the fathers malfunctioning gadgets to a whole building thats supposed to be ahead of its time but is always falling apart. This in a movie about creatures that make machines malfunction.

In the 1 review, I also added the Same comment, 4:30 'Mogwai(魔鬼)' means "The Devil" in Cantonese, not a species name. The name itself defines it. Post Rock band name, 'Mogwai' also came from this character.

Mohawk is Stripe reborn. That's how he remembered Gizmo.

Fun fact... We all have smart phones and smart TV's... Well this movie was the first time it was used. Phoebe, on her tour, calls it "The first 'smart' building".... First time ever it was used.