Gremlins 2: The New Batch

"Here they grow again."

1990 1h 46m EN

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6.5

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★6.5TMDB · 3,014🍅71%Rotten Tomatoes●69Metacritic★6.5IMDB · 120,089

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Synopsis

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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!

“Here they grow again.”

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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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joe Dante
Writers: Charles S. Haas
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Earned back only 83% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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36 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Gremlins Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joe Dante, shot by John Hora. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

ERA

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Original score by Jerry Goldsmith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Kent Beyda shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates and John Glover carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Joe Dante directs. John Hora behind the camera. Jerry Goldsmith scores. Kent Beyda cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Earned back only 83% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
336 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Part of the "The Gremlins Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Joe Dante, shot by John Hora. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Jerry Goldsmith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Kent Beyda shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates and John Glover carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Here they grow again.".
10IMDB entry: tt0099700 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 22 themes, including "dying and death", "new york city", "monster", "mutation".
12Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: John Hora
Original score: Jerry Goldsmith
Editing: Kent Beyda
Production design: James H. Spencer
Costume design: Rosanna Norton
Makeup / hair: Michael Germain
VFX supervisor: Dennis Michelson
Sound: Rick Kline
Stunt coordinator: Mike H. McGaughy
Runtime: 106 min · 1h 46m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $50,000,000
Box office: $41,485,808
Return: 83% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes: 71% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 69/100
IMDB rating: 6.5/10 · 120,089 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

6 nominations total

Part of

The Gremlins Collection

Gremlins is a 1984 American horror comedy film directed by Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg was the film's executive producer and the screenplay was written by Chris Columbus. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature called a Mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. This story was continued with a sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, released in 1990. Unlike the lighter sequel, the original Gremlins opts for more black comedy, which is balanced against a Christmas-time setting. Both films were the center of large merchandising campaigns.

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Gimly2018-10-05
★ 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 time.
kevin20192025-10-24
★ 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 after another. The gremlins themselves are particularly fearsome and frightning looking little critters - sorry, wrong franchise - and the film can be surprisingly gory in places as well, although it does manage to conjure up a relatively inventive way of ridding the Clamp building of the marauding gremlin menace and this ending neatly bookends what is essentially an extraordinarily nonexistant story in between.
daniel_carr2026-02-23
★ 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 the next one is better!