joy@mit-vax.UUCP (Joy Hoppe) (06/26/84)
[one for the line-eater beast]
Gremlins is great! See it before all the commercialism kills its appeal.
I do not recommend this movie to any child under the age of 10:
When I saw the movie, I noted a number of very small children being led out
screaming. They were frightened mostly by gremlins which jumped out and
snarled at people, full screen. However, the movie is pretty blood-less;
there is less blood and gore here than on T.V. !
It is filled with all kinds of silliness and background jokes galore. All of
which make it a challenge to view the film. Speilberg enjoys spoofing his
own films, as he did in Indiana Jones (Club Obi Wan???), and he continues
to do so with Gremlins.
The characters are appealling, and the gremlins themselves are sometimes
uproariously funny and sometimes rather nasty. There are a few group-gremlin
scenes which are not to be missed. Certainly, some killing does occur.
But the killing is inferred rather than shown; like the good movies used to
do. There is not one single bloody corpse. The one body which appears on
screen is shown face down, no blood visible.
THUMBS UP!
joy
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