Gremlins

  • Rated PG
  • 1hr 46m
  •  (29)
  • 70

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Joe Dante

Producer:

Michael Finnell, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall

Writer:

Chris Columbus

Release Date:

Jun 8, 1984

Runtime:

1hr 46m

Synopsis

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

Cast

  • Hoyt Axton
  • John Louie
  • Keye Luke
  • Don Steele
  • Susan Burgess
  • Scott Brady
  • Arnie Moore
  • Corey Feldman
  • Harry Carey Jr.
  • Zach Galligan

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • Billy says he bought a comic at Dr. Fantasy's. Dr. Fantasy is a nickname for Executive Producer Frank Marshall.
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Goofs

  • Snow on the underside of branches.
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Quotes

    • Gizmo: Bye Billy.
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Atom User Reviews

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Verified Review
#fun
#original
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My ultimate Christmas movie!

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tyki M
Verified Review
#fun
#<3
#awesome

Honestly, seeing Gremlins in the theater was the best way to see it ever. Glad to have bought tickets for it.

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Metacritic

70
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Based on 13 Critics
7.4

USER SCORE (51)

Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Reviews
88

A horror-comedy about cute little Christmas toy/pets who turn into murderous monsters wreaking havoc on a Norman Rockwellian town. There's a moral there someplace.

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Metacritic review by Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
75

Gremlins was hailed as another E.T. It's not. It's in a different tradition. At the level of Serious Film Criticism, it's a meditation on the myths in our movies: Christmas, families, monsters, retail stores, movies, boogeymen. At the level of Pop Movie-going, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie, in which the monsters are devouring not only the defenseless town, but decades of defenseless clichés. But don't go if you still believe in Santa Claus.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
50

It's as if Dante sought so hard to parrot his producer that he wound up parodying, and all involved should have known better. There's a current of menace to Dante's work that sets him apart from Spielberg, and a measure of innocence in Spielberg's quite apart from anything Dante has done. [8 June 1984, p.1]

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Metacritic review by Bill Cosford
Bill Cosford
Miami Herald
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