![]() ![]() Immediately there is a sense that not only are we not in for a rehash of the first movie, but that Gremlins 2 is not going to play it safe. This is a far cry from the almost storybook narration the first Gremlins opens with. This is quickly interrupted by Daffy Duck who insists that he ride the shield, “because I, personally, have all the talent around here.” Of course this works out about as well for Daffy as most things do and he finally yields to the feature presentation. The film opens like a Looney Tunes short as Bugs Bunny lies atop the WB shield. He did it, in of all things, a sequel to one of the biggest commercial hits of the 1980s.ĭante is hardly subtle about his intentions with 1990’s Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Thirteen years before however, that film’s director, Joe Dante, unleashed a film that truly captured the off the wall spirit of Looney Tunes in a way that neither Space Jam nor Back in Action came close to doing. 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action is now largely forgotten, even by me and I saw it. The moment Daffy Duck and Bill Murray share a frame is however a great contribution to American cinema. A few moments aside, the comedy is weak and it’s a visual nightmare. In 1996, the Looney Tunes stars were given bigger roles in Space Jam, a film that holds a strange nostalgic power for many Millennials that escapes me. Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece featured essentially every Looney Tunes star in a cameo role and while there is a lot of wacky humor in the film it has the story and structure of a detective movie. Just keep restarting the game until it asks you for one you have the answer.Last summer in my look at Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, I expressed my unabashed love of Looney Tunes. The answers are in the extras, but several are missing. The game will ask you for copy protection. Otherwise you should better go and play a decent adventure instead. So if you're a fan of weirdness or Ed Wood, then you should definitely try this game. So you can say the game is being true to the movie. Heck, it even works in WinXP.Īll in all this game would not be worth playing and I'd consider it crap, if it weren't based on the worst film ever. The game plays well in DOSBox and VDMSound, so there are no real compatibility issues. There's no speech and extremely little sound effects (the first one should be a cough, but sounds more like a stomp). Yet like with the interface it gets annoying. Music contributes to the general feeling. The film you get to see is actually quite well made (considering they tried to cover a real movie into something that would play as an animated sequence in the game). There are only a few animated scenes in the game. Graphics are good enough, but mostly static. So it's all simple enough, but by far not the best interaction option (even for 1992). The rest of the background is just something taken out of the movie. In order to pick something up you need to click on TAKE and then go to the interaction screen. On the bottom right side is the list of commands. In the middle there's the interaction screen (the still picture that sometimes moves) with which you can interact. Once the copy-protection is passed you'll get a large screen. You get to chose the language and answer the copy-protection question (the file provided is incomplete, so you might have to start the game several times). Maybe somebody got so ashamed of this movie and wanted to prevent the screening… I just can't understand why this movie was hidden in several locations all over the globe. ![]() It's the actual movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. There are several places where you can watch the movie, so every time you find another reel give it a go. Off course it's this movie the game is based upon. I won't revil much of the plot, except that you have to find the missing movie reels (as if there's much more of the plot anyway). As an adventure game it's fairly simple and straight forward, but I provided a walkthrough as well. So I got the feeling that everything that was bad in the game was made that way intentionally. ![]() The game let's you explore the world, that's a mixture of reality in which Ed Wood lived and a fantasy that he made. I've watched the movie twice after I played the game, so I'd make up my mind, but I'm still not sure. I'm still not sure if this game is brilliant or crap! I'm not kidding. The game was made in three languages (English, German and French). It was made in 1992 by Gremlin Graphics LTD. Now imagine my surprise, when I discovered they made a game based on this movie. This was also Bela Lugosi's last movie (you should know who Bela Lugosi is). He made a cult movie (becoming a cult movie by being so bad) entitled Plan 9 from Outer Space. He's only the worse movie maker in history (at least that's what they claim). ![]()
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