Gremlins 2

 

If I had to equate myself to a movie, I would say I am Gremlins 2. Its light hearted, full of pop culture references, funny as hell, and has a few serious pseudo-scary moments. I know its kind of a big stretch calling it a horror movie, but damn it its got mean, partying, bloodthirsty little monsters that cause chaos and riotous laughter. I love it! So let me just call it a horror movie, please?

William Peltzer is tired of his job, its boring, its dull, its going no where. Same goes for Katey. But when Daniel Clamp acquires the last bit of property he needs to make his new Clamp China Town center, things change.

See, that last bit of property? It was Mr. Wings shop. Mr. Wing, the man who takes care of Gizmo, the cute little Mogwai from the first Gremlins. After acquiring the land, a scientist from the genetics research facility located in the Clamp building, searches the area around the shop for specimens... he discovers Gizmo. Bringing him back to the laboratory, him and his colleagues plan to poke and prod and experiment on him, test his limits, and eventually dissect him.

As a delivery boy drops off a package at the genetics center, he overhears Gizmo humming the tune that Billy taught him. As he is making his rounds, he hums that tune over and over again. Billy happens to overhear him and asks about where he heard it, pointing him to "The Splice of Life"

Under the false pretence of repairing their copy machine, Billy infiltrates the facility. He fumbles around the lab, searching for Gizmo. He finally finds him and smuggles him out in a toolbox. He stores him away in his desk and goes off to dinner with a co-worker. After being left alone, the fun starts, Gizmo escapes from the desk and as a nearby janitor stops for a drink at the drinking fountain, it malfunctions and blasts water towards Gizmo. He hides beneath Bills art desk, but another blast rolls its way down the desks pencil holder and onto Gizmo.

Gremlin time! It all goes crazy from here, Stripe torturing Gizmo, attacking the control room for the building, the Three Stooge gremlins assaulting a cooking show, throwing pots and pans into the microwave causing it to explode and the fire sprinklers to go off, dousing them in water and unleashing a horde of horrible, murderous, destructive, drinking, smoking, fun time gremlin onto the building and its unsuspecting residents.

There is so much going on, gremlins reenacting The Phantom of the Opera, gremlins eating people, gremlins shooting each other, drinking, smoking, tattooing, torturing. Gremlins transforming thanks to serums left around the genetics research facility. We have bat-gremlins, smart-gremlins, salad-gremlins, transgender-gremlins, electric-gremlins, and finally we have Stripe turning into a spider-gremlin.

Its all fun, its sorta frightening....sometimes, but its all hilarious and wacky. We've got a man dressed as Dracula reporting from inside the building with the help of Long Duk Dong. The gremlins don't attack him for some reason and he manages to get an interview with the smart-gremlin. The gremlins ruin "the projection room" stopping the movie in its tracks. Lucky for us, we've got Hulk Hogan on our side to get them to start the movie again. Leonard Maltin gets strangled by those awesome gremlins for not liking the first movie. There's just so much! That doesn't even scratch the surface of the greatness that is Gremlins 2. Daniel Clamp is hilarious, Stripe is and evil bastard, and the Brain-gremlin is so charming that I would sleep with him.

I guess you could say I like this movie. You could probably say it had a big impact on my life.... which is sorta sad, but hey it could be worse. Please watch it, love it, and laugh your ass off. I swear its somehow connected to horror.