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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790742311 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790742314 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: August 24, 1999 Running Time: 106 minutes Sales Rank: 10346 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 08, 1984
Amazon.com: Gremlins is a whee of a film (if you don't mind the occasional gross-out) from producer Steven Spielberg, writer Chris Columbus, and director Joe Dante. Zach Galligan is the young man whose inventor father (Hoyt Axton) gives him an odd Christmas present: a tiny, furry creature that comes with a set of rules: don't get him wet, don't feed him after midnight, and keep him away from direct sunlight. But Galligan breaks the first rule and the damp little critter pops out a dozen little offspring. Then the offspring break the second rule and, overnight, turn from cute furry guys to malevolent scaly guys with world domination on their mind. The only way to stop them: rule three. But it's an anxious (and extremely funny) battle to make it to daylight--and the bad gremlins find ways to multiply over and over. Great special effects and a gruesome sense of humor make this a wild (if occasionally dark and scary) ride. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Don't feed them after midnight
Don't expose them to sunlight. Don't let them get wet. And under no circumstances feed them after midnight.
Those are the rules for the now-legendary mogwai, adorable little fuzzballs who transform if you break the last rule. And "Gremlins" is a gloriously unconventional Christmas movie -- a postcard-pretty view of suburban middle-America, splattered with gore, nasty little gremlins and a truly wicked sense of humour (expressed often in movie send-ups).
Randall (Hoyt Axton) spots a tiny adorable creature -- a mogwai -- in a small Chinatown shop, and wants to buy it as ... Read More
Rating: - Still Fun To Watch
I have started buying movies I enjoyed as a kid for my kids to watch. I haven't seen Gremlins in forever and it was still a very fun movie.
Rating: - Terror wears the cutest faces!
Finally, a childhood favorite that doesn't qualify as coaster material. Gremlins is an 80's classic that still delivers the goods. The movie was well paced and the acting was solid. The characters were given enough time to be developed and they never came off annoying. The gore at times was something else and alot of the deaths were very creative. This is a flick chock full of hilarious moments and that was the intent. I rarely get into comedy horror but this is one of the few that I actually like. The soundtrack is your typical 80's cheese and fits very well with the movie.
Rating: - The same great movie, but the images were dark (in my TV, at least)
I have always loved this movie, with it's strange and funny story. Watching it again after lots, and lots of years felt unusually good, and having my kids roaring with laughter (I had been telling them about the movie, and they were really eager to watch it) next to me felt even better. The images were dark, and I tried to fix it, but at the end gave up. Maybe it was just that I didn't know how to adjust properly the TV, and since I had not tried again, well...
Rating: - Relive Gremlins!
I watched this with my 8 yr old son. I remember why I loved it. I am so happy I own it. This movie is so completely adorable!
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