Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1990 106 min ★ 6.5 Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

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Cast

Zach Galligan

Billy Peltzer

Phoebe Cates

Kate Beringer

John Glover

Daniel Clamp

Robert Prosky

Grandpa Fred

Robert Picardo

Forster

Christopher Lee

Doctor Catheter

Haviland Morris

Marla Bloodstone

Dick Miller

Murray Futterman

Jackie Joseph

Sheila Futterman

Gedde Watanabe

Mr. Katsuji

Details

Director

Joe Dante

Tagline

"Here they grow again."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$50,000,000

Revenue

$41,482,207

Production

Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures

Reviews

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Gimly

October 5, 2018

★ 7/10

The original already had a little bit of that sly humour, and a hint of that sarcastic tone, but is still at its heart an actual horror movie. _The New Batch_ though changes it up and has that light-hearted, hokey, meta-humour in spades. It's a comedy. But it doesn't suffer for it, _Gremlins 2_ is an absolute joy. _Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your...

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kevin2019

October 24, 2025

★ 7/10

"Gremlins 2: The New Batch" leaves you wondering what sort of audience this chaotic visual smorgasbord is aimed at. It is undoubtedly too violent in certain places for a pre-teen audience and it is much too fanciful and juvenile for a teenage audience. In any case it is very entertaining in its own shambolic way as the loosely constructed story strings together one unrelated set piece sequence aft...

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daniel_carr

February 23, 2026

★ 3/10

This was really bad! It was great to see Robert Picardo and John Glover in a film before they were famous so that was fun. But this film really felt like "hey we had a good idea in the first film, let's try another one". They started well not trying to reuse the old film's story but after the started felt like they had nowhere to go let's just have everything go wrong and then poof ... Just hoping...