Either the slyest satire of consumerism you will ever see or a filmmaker, reared on action figures and electric trains, acting out his childhood fantasies of being locked in a department store at night.
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02/04/08
Gremlins (1984)
78 %
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Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 31
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Joe Dante's hilariously funny, wickedly scary film is about a loveable, furry little Christmas gift that multiplies into many little Christmas gifts, with savage consequences. Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) is an inventor who hasn't... [More]
Starring: Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold
Director: Joe Dante
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Reviews for Gremlins
Top Critic An unexpectedly successful skit on Spielberg/Disney movie culture -- that itself became something of a franchise.
11/27/07
What's confusing yet ultimately illuminating is the way his gremlins function as a free-floating metaphor, suggesting at separate junctures everything from teenagers to blacks to various Freudian suppressions.
11/27/07
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Dante is perhaps the first filmmaker since Frank Tashlin to base his style on the formal free-for-all of animated cartoons; he is also utterly heartless.
11/27/07
Top Critic Yes, Dante gleefully trashes cliches and sentimental Capra-esque notions, but one should not forget this movie was given a "PG" rating and cynically aimed to draw an audience of small children who would no doubt be terrorized by this myth-shattering film.
12/04/06
Taking a second look back at Joe Dante's career, I realize he was actually one of the most interesting American directors working.
08/14/06
Dante gleefully sinks his teeth into the kind of fluffy, sugary, sickly small town fantasy beloved of his pal and sometime producer Spielberg.
06/24/06
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 Moviegoing, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie.
10/23/04
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