History Trivia / Gremlins2TheNewBatch

* BoxOfficeBomb: Unlike how the first ''Gremlins'' movie only cost $11 million and made over $150 million worldwide at the box office back in 1984, this 1990 sequel cost $50 million (production alone, not counting marketing and advertising) and only grossed back $41.5 million at the box office worldwide. Due to the disastrous financial returns, ''Gremlins 3'' couldn't be made.

* DuelingDubs: Just like its prequel, the film had two Japanese dubs, one for home video and another one for TV Asahi, and just like ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''' dub, some voice actors work in both dubs, mainly Creator/ToshihikoSeki (Billy), Creator/SakikoTamagawa (Kate), Tamio Ohki (Dr. Catheter), Ikuo Nishikawa (Murray Futterman), Creator/HideyukiUmezu (Mr. Katsuji), Toshiro Ishii (Mr. Wing), Creator/HochuOtsuka (Wally), Creator/MikiNarahashi (Peggy), Creator/KenichiOgata (Brain Gremlin), Creator/TesshoGenda (Franchise/{{Rambo}}) and Creator/ShozoIizuka (Wrestling/HulkHogan)

** Creator/ChrisColumbus was unavailable to write the script due to him directing ''Film/HomeAlone''.

** The original script featured Randall Peltzer making a {{Cameo}} at the end of the movie with his latest invention -- a wetsuit-type device to prevent Gizmo from ever getting wet again.

* DoingItForTheArt: Legendary Oscar-winning special effects artist Creator/RickBaker was convinced to work on the sequel by letting him completely redesign the mogwai/gremlins, including making the new hybrids.

* DuelingDubs: Just like its prequel, the film had two Japanese dubs, one for home video and another one for TV Asahi, and just like ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''' dub, some voice actors work in both dubs, mainly Creator/ToshihikoSeki (Billy), Creator/SakikoTamagawa (Kate), Tamio Ohki (Dr. Catheter), Ikuo Nishikawa (Murray Futterman), Creator/HideyukiUmezu (Mr. Katsuji), Toshiro Ishii (Mr. Wing), Creator/HochuOtsuka (Wally), Creator/MikiNarahashi (Peggy), Creator/KenichiOgata (Brain Gremlin), Creator/TesshoGenda (Franchise/{{Rambo}}) and Creator/ShozoIizuka (Wrestling/HulkHogan)

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* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Identical twins Don and Dan Stanton (you may also recognize them from ''Film/{{Terminator 2}}'' as a security guard and the T-1000 copying him) play the clone lab assistants.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It shows how it's a 1990 film with references to ''Film/Batman1989'', ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', 1980s UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and Marla Maples' affair, colorization jokes and so on.
** This got even more jarring with Trump's highly controversial presidential run. You'd never see him spoofed by ''either'' side of the political arena as a charmingly dumb, likable, well-meaning {{manchild}} now.
** Hell, Marla merely ''smoking indoors'' wherever she is would at the very least [[ValuesDissonance be quite frowned upon]] today.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Unlike how the first ''Gremlins'' movie only cost $11 million and made over $150 million worldwide at the box office back in 1984, this 1990 sequel cost $50 million (production alone, not counting marketing and advertising) and only grossed back $41.5 million at the box office worldwide. Due to the disastrous financial returns, Gremlins 3 couldn't be made.

* ActorInspiredElement: More like actor-inspired ''personality''. Daniel Clamp was originally scripted to be just as mean-spirited and greedy as his [[{{Trumplica}} obvious inspiration]], but Creator/JohnGlover was so utterly charming that pretty much the entire production team was won over by his drastically different interpretation of the character.

** George, Lenny and Daffy sneak into Grandpa Fred's studio and "help" him host, which worked because Grandpa Fred's show was supposed to be scary. A still from this scene was used on the video cover. These scenes, among others, were cut as Steven Spielberg felt that there were too many Gremlins.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It shows how it's a 1990 film with references to ''Film/Batman1989'', ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and Marla Maples' affair, colorization jokes and so on.
** This got even more jarring with Trump's highly controversial presidential run and win. You'd never see him spoofed by ''either'' side of the political arena as a charmingly dumb, likable, well-meaning {{manchild}} now.