Family Dog Meet Gizmo & The Gremlins

The Adventures of Family Dog and Gizmo (also known as Tim Burton's Family Dog 2, Gremlins 3, Gizmo & the Gremlins meet Binford's Family, Steven Spielberg's Family Dog 2: Gremlins Strikes Back!) is a 1992 American animated adventure horror comedy romantic family film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio and Tim Burton, directed by Kevin Lima, Hendel Butoy, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells, and released by Universal Pictures.

The screenplay was written by Joe Ranft, Jim Cox, Rachel Koretsky, and Steven Whitestone, with original music score composers by James Horner and Danny Elfman. The story was animated by Chuck Gammage, Chris Buck, Jane Baer, and Gary Trousdale from an animation character designers by, David W. Cutler, Robin Budd and Dale Baer. The animation production was outsourced to The Baer Animation Company Ltd. and Warner Bros. Feature Animation.

Frank Welker and Howie Mandel had all providing the voices of Family Dog, the main Binford's pet dog character and Gizmo, the main mogwai character.

It was released on November 20, 1992. However, the film was only a underperformed at the box office for $31 million at the box office, largely due to competition with the much more. This makes it the second film to be produced by Amblimation (after the first film, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)). Despite its largely mixed received by critics, its strong sales on home video spawned a television series spinoff titled Family Dog which debuted on CBS Saturday Morning four years after the film debuted in theaters - though it was made with Spielberg's involvement - and uses the same Tim Burton and Brad Bird's character designs and most of the same voice cast.

Voice cast

 * William Binford (11 year old son and Family Dog's owner)
 * Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer (Gizmo's owner)
 * Family Dog/The Dog (Billy's Dog)
 * Gizmo (Family Dog's friend)
 * Skip Binford (Father)
 * Beverly Binford (Mother)
 * Laura Rose (William's love interest)
 * Buffy Binsford (Daughter)
 * Al
 * Howie & Holly
 * Trish Mahoney
 * Martin Mahoney
 * Katie (Laura's pet dog, Binford's Dog's love interest)
 * Family Cat/Kitty (Laura's pet cat)
 * Hamster
 * Bunny
 * Weasel
 * Red Bird and Blue Bird
 * Mogwais/Gremlins
 * Gangster Gremlins
 * Gerte LeStrange/Monsterous Humanoid Hound Gerte LeStrange
 * Brain Gremlin
 * Angel
 * Twin Dachshunds
 * Pack of Wolves
 * Pack of Vicious Dogs of Canine Terror
 * Gronka
 * Stripe
 * Greta Gremlin

Crew

 * Directors: Kevin Lima, Hendel Butoy, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells
 * Executive Produced by: Thad Weinlein, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Gavin
 * Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi
 * Score Composers: James Horner and Danny Elfman
 * Animation Screenplay by: Jim Cox, Rachel Koretsky, Steven Whitestone and Joe Ranft
 * Music Themes: Steve Bartek, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams
 * Music Performed by: The London Symphony Orchestra
 * Casting Director: Nancy Nayor and Valerie McCaffrey
 * Character Designer: Tony Fucile, Valerio Lawrence-Ventura and Gay Lawrence-Ventura
 * Effects Animator: Glenn Chaika, Mike Smith
 * Additional Animation Supervisor: David Cutler, Chris Buck, Rob Stevenhagen, Kristof Serrand, Bibo E. Bergeron, Chuck Gammage, Sandy Kopitopoulos
 * Animation: David Bowers, Eric Goldberg, Walter Kössler, Ron Hughart, Tom McGrath, Eric Bouillette, Quentin Miles, Rodolphe Guenoden, Robin Budd, and Clive A. Smith
 * Layouts: George Goode, Mario Piluso, Dan Krall, Ed Ghertner
 * Backgrounds: Colin Stimpson, Gary Sycamore,
 * Animation Production by: Nelvana, and Baer Animation Company and Amblimation
 * Production Companies: Amblin Entertainment, Amblimation, Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, Universal Pictures

Production
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West and Tim Burton's The Adventures of Family Dog and Gizmo were both first production for Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, a collaboration of Amblin Entertainment, whose offices were located in London. There, over 250 crew members worked on the project, which began in May 1989. At the time, Amblimation was also developing ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, Balto'', and a screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats which never saw completion.

Five years after the success of the original film at Amazing Stories episode, the animated full-length feature film based on the episode/short film was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton (who was involved in the story's production and character designs). The animation production was The Baer Animation Company, Amblimation and distributor Warner Bros. Family Entertainment for a U.K. and territories release and Universal Pictures for a U.S.A. and Canada domestic release. The production begins in August 1990 - July 1991 before animation full-length feature film were finally finished from the Nelvana, The Baer Animation Company and Amblimation animation house in U.K.. The film was released in November 20, 1992. In June 23, 1991, The animation production was wrapped and completed on the full-length feature film.

Music
The score for the film was composed and conducted by James Horner and Danny Elfman and Amazing Stories short film Family Dog at Amazing Stories themed by Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek and John Williams and Joe Dante's Gremlins themed by Jerry Goldsmith. The music performed by The London Symphony Orchestra.

Reception
The film received generally mixed reviews from critics. Critical response aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 42% of critics gave positive reviews based on 159 reviews with an average score of 5.2/10.