This movie is nearly 30 years old... how's that for some perspective on how old you are?
The story:
A man gets a cute little critter for his son for Christmas. There are 3 simple rules to follow: They don't like bright lights...in fact, sunlight will kill them. Don't get them wet. And Don't feed them after midnight.
Naturally, in the span of about 48 hours, all those rules will be broken...
Was there ever a cuter onscreen critter than Gizmo? I'm hard pressed to think of one. He's still as adorable today as he was back in 1984.
So I've used the notion of not feeding my kids after midnight for years. Here's the movie that naturally instilled that idea in my head. The older kids had seen it sometime in the last decade, but the youngest had never seen the film...
Until now.
Netflix provided last night's entertainment, and it was a fun trip down memory lane. It's no holiday classic that would need to be screened every year for Christmas like Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, and Die Hard...
But there are worse Christmas movies out there.
For those that haven't seen it (ever, or in a long time), water causes the Gremlins to multiply, and food causes them to change into the green monsters that terrorize the town. The movie actually clips right along with a good pace, only dragging when the gremlins are in the bar in an excessively long scene to show off how many crazy gremlin characters they could animate.
Between that and the long theater sequence, the movie gets drug along just a hair much, but the rest of the movie keeps the plot/pace moving along nicely.
Perhaps we'll spin it again around the 40th anniversary so the little one can figure out why she can't be fed after midnight?
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