I watched both Gremlins movies for the first time in a long time. I guess I watched them "too much" growing up because while I always liked them I just haven't had any urgency to revisit them in a very long time.
I guess absence does make the heart grow fonder, because they're both a lot better than I remembered, and I remembered them both being really good.
Part II really blew me away with just how sharp it is. People who know me well could tell you that I typically don't go in for balls-out comedy, and I'm on-record that when a series resigns to satirizing itself it's usually an admission that they're bereft of ideas. But that movie was a freakin' trip. I honestly can't think of any "better" sequel that could ever have been made, and from top to bottom it's essentially a "perfect" movie. There's nothing at all "wrong" with the first one but the second one, admittedly, is a lot more fun to watch, and nowadays watching them back-to-back the entire first one mostly just feels like prologue to the sequel, which is where all the TRULY memorable scenes are.
Anyways, yeah, they're great.
And man, oh man... Phoebe Cates. Jesus, if I had a time machine and some Spanish Fly...
