randycoates

I really love this movie. I know that some of the effects can seem to be a bit outdated and some of it might seem a little hammy now that we're older but I still find it to be a lot of fun.

Gremlins is a bit of a Christmas classic and holiday tradition at our house, where we watch it every year and always have a good time. It's got decent scares in it but not too scary for most kids, and the actors seem to have a lot of fun.

Also even though they are dated the practical effects are still pretty good and I tend to like them more than CGI effects but that is obviously a personal preference type thing.

And Gizmo is so cute!!!

Video on Trial is one of the best if not the best show that ever aired on MuchMusic in Canada. If they had just taken classic episodes of that series and aired them on Fuse in the states it would have been just fine and continued that success. Instead for some reason they tried to reinvent the wheel and make changes that were not necessary for no apparent reason and killed the format.

The biggest problem is the new American cast who simply were not at all funny. Even on their own, if you didn't watch classic Video on Trial with the amazing jurors they used to have on there, they still seem awful.

I guess it's not too surprising when you consider that MuchMusic also changed the format of the show and killed it too. Why did they do that? We will never know. It's sad to see a classic show get ripped off and then just make changes to allow it to die but I guess they must have had their reasons.

I thought this movie was a bit of a disappointment. I am a fan of the films George Clooney has worked on in the past (even though I am not exactly a huge George Clooney the actor fan, but not anti-Clooney either, I could take him or leave him). I do like a lot of the actors in this. As far as I am concerned I don't think Bill Murray could make a wrong move in any movie because he always comes across great just doing his thing, and he does the usual good job here.

The movie is about a group of guys who kind of get thrown together when they form a unit to save valuable art from the Nazis. They don't want it to get destroyed or stolen so risk their lives to get it all back before the end of the war comes.