Review – Gremlins

This is one of the all-time classics of that small genre of films that seem like they’d be for kids but actually aren’t. Sure, it starts out with a cute, fuzzy little critter, but it doesn’t take too long for director Joe Dante and writer Chris Columbus to move on to more dangerous creatures and a considerable amount of for-mature-audiences-only violence. Of course, that didn’t stop the Hollywood greed-heads from marketing all kinds of kid-oriented ancillary merchandise anyway. The really great thing about Gremlins is that, hype aside, it actually holds its own as an amusing movie. Sure, it’s a little cartoonish, but that’s deliberate enough that it’s an asset rather than an annoying distraction. Besides, any movie with a cameo by legendary animator Chuck Jones can’t be all bad. Buy the tape