I’ve never seen this sequel until now and i gotta say this thing is more fun than it has any right to be. While i loved the original Gremlins for its boundless creativity in staging the animatronics but was a bit disaffected regarding its over-the-top Spielbergian 80’s cheesiness in its portrayal of characters and setting, the sequel goes all-in on that so much that it becomes kind of a surreal satire of its own genre tropes, while in the second half, it doesn’t even pretend to care about telling a story and just has fun with its creatures, which is what we all came for anyway. Gremlins 2 is the perfect guilty pleasure and i say that as someone who is notoriously averse to most kinds of “guilty pleasure” cultural artifact.