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Business Stationary Mart - Gremlins (Special Edition)
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Edward Andrews, Susan Arnold, Hoyt Axton, Belinda Balaski, Jonathan Banks
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391163152
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-05-15
Running Time: 106
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Classic Horror Comedy
Comment: Though I'm Not Into Horror Films, I Thought Gremlins Was Very Good and Origanal. I Thought Zach Galligan and Pheobe Cates Were Very Good as Billy Peltzer (Zach) and Kate Baringer (Pheobe), The Romantic Couple in The Film. I Also Thought Howie Mandel Did an Excelent Job as The Voice of Gizmo. Gremlins is A Great 80s Film. A Must See.
The Special Features Include Some Interesting Info and Filmography on The Cast and Crew, 2 Commentaries (One With The Filmakers and The Other With The Cast) That are Very Interesting To Listen To, an Interesting Behind The Scenes Info on The Film, Great Deleted Scenes With a Great Commentary, a Photo Gallery, an Interesting Behind The Scenes Featurette, and Great Trailers for Both Gremlins 1 and 2.
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Movie-5/5
DVD-4/5
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gremlins
Comment: Good movie for pre-teens and up. Contains blender and microwave scenes that might be a bit intense for very young kids.
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Summary: Though the gremlins outside are frightful...
Comment: 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 a Christmas present for his son. The owner refuses, but his grandson secretly sells it to Randall.
Randall's son Billy (Zach Galligan) is delighted by the fuzzy lightphobic mogwai, whom he names Gizmo. But it soon becomes clear that Gizmo is full of surprises: when water is accidentally splashed on him, he spontaneously generates a litter of NEW mogwai. The ringleader "Stripe" tricks Billy into feeding them after midnight, transforming them into scaly, dangerous "gremlins.
And after a gremlin tumbles into a pool, Billy realizes that the town is about to be swarmed with them -- attacking vicious old Mrs. Deagle, ramming snowplows, murdering kindly teachers, and trashing a tavern with Billy's love interest Kate (Phoebe Cates). As the town descends into gremlinized chaos, the two humans (and Gizmo) must find a way to wipe out the horde... and if they miss only one, it'll start all over again.
Personally I find most Christmas movies a little too sappy and sentimental. So for people who feel that way, a Yuletide horror/comedy is simply ideal -- it's sort of a mad hybrid of early Peter Jackson splattergore, Frank Capra snow-sprinkled Christmastime, and a bunch of sly movie homages and send-ups ("Forbidden Planet," "Wizard of Oz" and "Snow White" amongst others).
But the real fun is in watching the movie's balance between nasty and cuddly -- Joe Dante happily veers between sweet moments and grotesquely funny violence (such as Billy's mom messily killing gremlins with a variety of kitchen implements), with the best example being the malevolent Mrs. Deagle being flung out an upstairs window by fa-la-la-la-LAing gremlins. Completely sick, and gutsplittingly funn.
And Dante sprinkles it with more G-rated comedy that borders on cartoonish without quite crossing, such as the kid in the Christmas tree costume ("Don't ask!") and the gremlins destroying a local pub when they aren't watching Disney movies (is this a message about Disney?). It all climaxes in some literally explosive showdowns with the gremlins -- and particularly with Stripe, their ghastly little leader.
Galligan and Cates are thoroughly solid as the teenage heroes, especially when Cates gives her heartbreaking speech about the horrible experience that made her hate Christmas. In fact, all the actors do a solid job -- the evil old landlady who serves as a sort of Wicked Witch of the West/Scrooge hybrid, the cranky old veteran, the crackpot inventor and the wise old Chinese guy.
But the showstopper is Gizmo -- tiny, round, fuzzy and wide-eyed, with a babyish squeaky voice and a liking for toy cars and 3-D glasses. Rarely has a puppet been so bloody cute and endearing. His complete opposite is Stripe, a gremlin amongst gremlins -- malevolent and gleefully sadistic, he seems smart enough to revel in the idea of destroying the town.
"Gremlins" is a brilliant horror/comedy that infuses a perfect American town with a little mayhem and gore, as well as some wickedly funny little nasties. Definitely a must-see.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gotta' Love Gizmo!
Comment: I loved this movie growing up as a kid (even though I was only born in 1988) and I still love it to this day. Very funny and yet can scare you if you are not ready. You will laugh, cry, scream, laugh and cry, and just scream non-stop.
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Summary: Some schmaltz but a lot of fun!
Comment: This has some really funny bits in it and is great entertainment! I thoroughly enjoyed this.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A man buys a Mogwai as a Christmas present for his son. The young boy is told to keep the pet away from water, out of the light and never to feed it after midnight. Inadvertently, the creature is dampened and almost instantly, produces half a dozen furry replicas of itself --which continue to multiply and turn the small town upside-down.
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