We are zipping right through the G's.It's been several years since the events of the first film and Billy Peltzer (Zach Gilligan) has realized his dream of moving to New York City and working as an artist. Unfortunately, he had not counted on the cutthroat world of corporate art being so demanding. To make matters worse, Gizmo the Mogwai is captured by scientists working at a genetic research lab in the same building. Soon, the place is infested with nasty pop-culture-skewering Gremlins. Billy, his girlfriend Kate (Phoebe Cates), and the CEO who owns the building (John Glover) must race against time to stop them from getting out into the city.
People dismiss this because it drastically changed in tone from the first movie. There are a lot more in-jokes, celebrity cameos, and slapstick moments in this than there was in the original. You either embrace those changes or you don't. Personally, I liked this one more as a kid. That may have been because I was a little too young to "get" Gremlins but I was the right age for the sequel. As an adult, I think the first movie was more well-crafted, but I still love the insanity of the second one. Also, this time around I finally caught the Marathon Man reference.
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