GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH

'''GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH. Joe Dante, dir.''' USA: Amblin Entertainment (prod.) / Warner (dist.). Steven Spielberg et al., exec. prod.

If the clamp upon the human spirit in the original GREMLINS (1984) could be imaged as small-town America out of Frank Capra's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946), in the sequel it is Clamp Centre: a fully automated, high-tech building with an Orwellian security station at its heart and a top-floor office featuring TV screens, a shredding machine, and John Glover's Daniel Clamp—a media and real estate mogul with better teeth than brains. See GREMLINS 2 for artist's ambivalence toward technology.