Loved the original movies. Gremlins show up and destroy tech. This show is high fantasy. Expect wizards and oni and kitsune and portals. Also expect to see plenty of shadows from mogwai in sunlit rooms... The story is very kids movie, adults give blessing for kids to go on dangerous mission, when just killing gizmo would solve their issue, and even grandpa sees mogwai as a destructive and dangerous creature. Gremlin Canon rewritten. Mogwai are evil for 100 years them turn good. Also eating them makes you immortal.
Also this is a kids movie that includes a demon eating grandpa's soul, a gremlin biting off a dudes finger and using it as a cigar, parents violently stabbing gremlins to death, and cutting off a dudes hands. Like pick a lane, is this for kids or adults? Are gremlins not enough of a threat that we needed to add a wizard in?
The animation style is weird. Sometimes it looks like I'm watching a video game. Not a cutscene, actual game footage. Shots look like they're rotoscoped over a hand drawn background. Some sense I swear looked claymation.
Also gizmo staying with wings at the end made no sense. The mission was to send him home. Humans can't care for mogwai. They are easy to accidentally transform into an army of chaos monsters. Why does gizmo or wings parents even allow this?
Who is this for?
If this was an original property, it might be okay. Some of the villains really over monologue and become unthreatening with their flamboyant portrayals.
I guess I expected more after 30 years.