I don’t have guilty pleasures. If I like something, it’s worth my unashamed praise. But if I did have a guilty pleasure, it’d be Gremlins 2. I really didn’t like the first one, but I wouldn’t say I hated it. On paper, the sequel sounds even worse. It sounds downright awful. Amazingly, it’s one of the most original and entertaining Hollywood films ever made. Don’t believe me? Just look at this mash-up between it and Where The Wild Things Are:
You know who else didn’t like the first Gremlins? Movie critic Leonard Maltin. So what did the filmmakers do? They put him in the sequel. (For the record, Maltin gave the second film a positive review. I think he should have taken a note from Ebert and neglected to review a movie he took part in making. Kind of seems like cheating, no?)
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