The animatronics they used for this intelligent gremlin are just insane... I mean, this is a 1990 movie, and his facial movements and expressions look way better than Yoda from The Phantom Menace (1999). Now sorry for mentioning that movie here, I know everybody hates it.
The Bat Gremlin left a Batman Logo-shaped hole in the wall! Nice! Of course, the Brain Gremlin is the TRUE winner, so regal, and intelligent. It's so, as Principal Luna of Class of 3000 would say... Fantastic!
I once saw a statue of Brain Gremlin at F.Y.E (when it was still in business). It did caught me off guard because I didn't expect to see one, and I thought it was going to be a motion detection activating animatronic (as in it'll start to move and/or talk once you go near it).
Special effects and overall over-the-top devil-may-care attitude are even better than in the first one, however the sequel lacks the emotional and philosophical depth of the first film.
You know.... all brainy had to do was to give the sunblock to all the gremlins in the building and it would have been game over. They could have left way earlier and the world would have fallen. Thats not even taking into account all the other varients he could have manifested with the genome potions in the lab. He could have ruled as their god.... and frankly only the script stopped him.
Evil professor says ''we can't have them get out, all they have to do is eat 3 or 4 children''. so what he is saying, 1 or 2 children eaten by the bat gremilin would be fine. lol
He didn't know if the genetic sunblock would work which is why he used the bat gremlin as a test subject. If it came back unharmed, then the brain gremlin would inject himself and the other gremlins but the bat gremlin got covered in cement and turned into a gargoyle so brain gremlin never used the sunblock again.
But the bat gremlin plan would have failed because it's DNA was altered, so it couldn't spawn. Same with all the other genetically altered Gremlins. Why else would Brain not be convulsing at the end after being blasted with a fire hose?
LOL at after Dr. Catheter says i can get you dieseases the gremlin starts spazzing out and then Dr. catheter goes or perhaps not in a glad smart alec way then as the gremlin falls off it flips him off at 0:45!
The FX in this movie were simply incredible. Watching brainy gremlin talk is a master class in practical effects. He looks almost flawlessly real and totally believable. With 200 million and all of Hollywood they couldn't erase superman's mustache believably in justice league! Yet with some bottle caps and elbow grease they made that Muppet so life like it holds up to scrutiny almost 40 years later!
0:45 Someone let the birdie out of the cage! I think that right after this scene finished, Brain injected himself and Sparky (the soon-to-be Electric Gremlin, who is afraid of needles) with the sunblock. He knew it works because they tested it in a deleted scene.
0:45 Someone let the birdie out of the cage! I think that right after this scene finished, Brain injected himself and Sparky (the soon-to-be Electric Gremlin, who is afraid of needles) with the sunblock. He knew it works because they tested it in a deleted scene. But the bat gremlin plan would have failed because it's DNA was altered, so it couldn't spawn. Same with all the other genetically altered Gremlins. Why else would Brain not be convulsing at the end after being blasted with a fire hose?
Look throughout the whole damn movie for a shit load of completely unrelated references! From Phantom of the Opera to Wizard of Oz, we've got everything completely pointless to this movie!
