I'm not sure why a single vial contained the DNA of a dozen different plants or why the gremlin would subsequently only develop the edible portions of those plants, but it's a reasonably cool design, even if it's nowhere near as dramatic as some of the others. This poor guy got the short end of the stick here. As it turns out, gremlins are so biologically unstable that they can transform almost instantly upon the introduction of foreign DNA, with much hilarity and even a little horror ensuing from there. I shouldn't have to explain the basics of what gremlins is about even to those who've never seen it, but what we're here to review are the results of a scene about mid-way through the second movie, in which a band of gremlins break into a genetic engineering lab and just drink a bunch of "genetic samples" the staff were inexplicably keeping in big, clearly labeled glass bottles. It's honestly still one of my favorite movies of all time, and not only am I already reviewing "mainstream monsters" this season, but this is a movie taking place around this same time of year! Bonus relevancy! Many prefer the subtler, darker original film, and perhaps I would have too if I'd seen it first, but my first exposure wound up being the Looney-Tunes-esque zaniness of "The New Batch," from its goofy fourth-wall metahumor to just that amazing and unforgettable main theme. Yes, specifically for Gremlins!Įventually however, I saw Gremlins II on TV, and I was just enthralled. It's also famously the kind of reason why the PG-13 film rating was invented. Now that I recall though, my mother actually took some other, slightly older child she was babysitting to see Gremlins when I was just a baby, thinking it was more of an innocent kiddie film, and that kid was horrified to tears, so I guess that's another reason she expected me to be so sensitive. I've shared several times how squeamish and easily frightened I was as a child, and for those reasons, I was never exposed to even "horror" as lighthearted as Gremlins until at least my pre-teens, though I still had a number of toys, played the NES game and even read the novelizations of both movies, which I recall being remarkably good and fleshing out additional backstory from the perspective of Gizmo himself.
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