One of the greatest jokes ever played on an audience

Rating: Null/10 (10 February 2004)

GREMLINS is one of the foulest, nastiest and most mean-spirited movies ever made. It is a sick joke disguised as a kids movie, and one of my all-time favorite "f*** you" movies. This movie is designed to get back at parents too stupid or lazy to bother checking out what they are taking their kids to see by giving their kids nightmares.
The first half of the movie is a saccharine-laden cute-fest, with all the ear-marks of the usual Spielberg-produced kid fodder. Cute little Gizmo wears a Santa Claus hat, sings pretty songs and plays under the Christmas tree. Pretty soon, he spawns nastier and more mischievous
Mogwais, but even they are pretty cute.
And then...
The Mogwais turn into hideous reptilian creatures which viciously attack people with knives, chainsaws and crossbows. They are dispatched by being blown up in the microwave or shredded in a food processor.

I loved it. I saw it when I was twelve, so I was old enough to take it. One of the best moments in my entire movie-going life has to be when almost every child in the theater screamed in terror when the Gremlin exploded in the microwave. And, as an ultimate "you brought this on yourself" lesson to apathetic parents, the movie announces to the world that there is no Santa Claus.
This is not a kids movie. This is an anti-kid movie. Bravo.