This, too, was arguably just for a joke scene, but as a kid I thought for sure it was setting up a sequel in which she'd be a more major character. SPOILERS, but she's also a gremlin that actually survives to the end of the movie. Maybe I'm just over-analyzing a character concocted for a bad joke, but at least it resulted in a gremlin with killer fashion sense and swampy green hair. Gremlins don't typically have mammary glands and as of the second film they never have fur or hair, so couldn't it also be that Greta is a genetic hybrid like the other gremlins here? If the hormones she drank were derived from humans, then her physical characteristics would be because she is a human-gremlin chimera. I guess they do tend to answer to male pronouns, but in any case, I think it's obvious that there's a little more than a change in gender or "addition" of gender going on here. I guess the idea was that this gremlin "changed sex," but.do gremlins even have gender or sex to begin with? We already saw that they essentially reproduce by budding. Just like Rhino, the presumably massive-sized elephant gremlin was cut either for time or for the fact that it might have been too "out there." It could have been a lot of fun, though, to have an exceptionally huge and beastly gremlin with a prehensile trunk!Ī fan favorite that I only heard referred to as "Girl Gremlin" back in the day, Greta is a gremlin who drank some sort of concoction with gender symbols on it. Had this many-horned monstrosity been in Gremlins II, I imagine there might have been a really varied and imaginative variety of fan-gremlins, maybe even an implication that gremlins were responsible for a number of other mythological monster sightings if we are to assume they had a means of splicing themselves before our own technological advances. Speaking of cut content, there was originally going to be a huge gremlin-rhinoceros hybrid, and it's really a shame we lost this one, because the way it diverges so far from standard gremlin anatomy would have added SO much to their potential. Multiple scenes focusing on veggie were cut from the final movie for time, leaving only a brief moment where the creature emerges from a salad bar and another in which other gremlins are plucking pieces from the mutant to use in cocktails. I'm not sure why a single vial contained the DNA of a dozen different plants or why the gremlin would subsequently only develop the edible portions of those plants, but it's a reasonably cool design, even if it's nowhere near as dramatic as some of the others. This poor guy got the short end of the stick here. As it turns out, gremlins are so biologically unstable that they can transform almost instantly upon the introduction of foreign DNA, with much hilarity and even a little horror ensuing from there. I shouldn't have to explain the basics of what gremlins is about even to those who've never seen it, but what we're here to review are the results of a scene about mid-way through the second movie, in which a band of gremlins break into a genetic engineering lab and just drink a bunch of "genetic samples" the staff were inexplicably keeping in big, clearly labeled glass bottles. It's honestly still one of my favorite movies of all time, and not only am I already reviewing "mainstream monsters" this season, but this is a movie taking place around this same time of year! Bonus relevancy! Many prefer the subtler, darker original film, and perhaps I would have too if I'd seen it first, but my first exposure wound up being the Looney-Tunes-esque zaniness of "The New Batch," from its goofy fourth-wall metahumor to just that amazing and unforgettable main theme. Yes, specifically for Gremlins!Įventually however, I saw Gremlins II on TV, and I was just enthralled. It's also famously the kind of reason why the PG-13 film rating was invented. Now that I recall though, my mother actually took some other, slightly older child she was babysitting to see Gremlins when I was just a baby, thinking it was more of an innocent kiddie film, and that kid was horrified to tears, so I guess that's another reason she expected me to be so sensitive. I've shared several times how squeamish and easily frightened I was as a child, and for those reasons, I was never exposed to even "horror" as lighthearted as Gremlins until at least my pre-teens, though I still had a number of toys, played the NES game and even read the novelizations of both movies, which I recall being remarkably good and fleshing out additional backstory from the perspective of Gizmo himself.
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