Warner Brothers wanted a sequel to Gremlins and finally lured Joe Dante back with the promise of complete control over the picture. This was a bad idea. Dante ran amok indulging himself with his cartoon sense of humor and let the picture get completely out of control to the point of incoherence.
Dante crammed a lot of stuff into the picture. It was a spoof of Die Hard, and a satire of cable TV. He indulged himself with cartoon sequences from past his prime animator Chuck Jones and a musical sequence. The first Gremlins was barely credible but at least it had a story. Gremlins 2: The New Batch doesn't even bother with a story so it is virtually impossible to get involved with the film.
Dante brought back some of the original cast which included a rather haggard looking Phoebe Cates who was only 26 years old. Rick Baker made the gremlin puppets for this film but even the fuzzy cuddly "Gismo" seems to have lost a lot of it's cuteness along with Phoebe Cates between the first and second film.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch is what you get when you let an interesting cult director go nuts on a large budget.
106 minutes.
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