Family Dog and Gizmo (1992)

Family Dog, Gizmo and the Gremlins is a 1990 American animated crossover adventure romantic comedy horror film directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft, with animation director Chris Buck and supervisor animators Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells with music by Jerry Goldsmith and Danny Elfman and the sequel pilot with television 40 minute short cartoon to the 1987 short animated film, Amazing Stories 1984 film of Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch" in 1990 for being all films together into crossovers. The film was and produced and co-conceived by Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg. The animation production was outsourced to Hyperion Pictures, The Baer Animation Company, and Perennial Pictures as well as in London, England by Amblimation Studios in May 1989 while working Fievel Goes West and Bay Lake, Florida by Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida.

The 40 minute television animated film was released on August 26, 1990 at ABC Sunday Movie Night by Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. It was also released in theaters November 22, 1991 before An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

Film Summary
When the Binsford's nephew Peter and his wife Laura brings home mogwai Gizmo, Family Dog accidently gets him wet. Family Dog and Katie are in love and Now the gremlins are back and running mayham to take over Christmas and led by an old enemy of their's Gerte LeStrange!

Characters
Protagonist Characters:
 * Family Dog/The Dog (Binford's pet dog)
 * Gizmo (Billy and Kate's mogwai)
 * Katie (Binford's Dog's love interest, One of helpers)
 * Snowflake (Binford's Dog and Katie's friend, One of helpers)
 * Fox (Gizmo, Binford's Dog, Katie and Snowflake's friend, One of helpers)
 * Billy Peltzer (Gizmo's owner)
 * Kate Beringer (Gizmo's owner, and Billy's love interest)
 * Skip Binsford (Father)
 * Beverly Binsford (Mother)
 * Chief Forster
 * Greta Gremlin (Forster's love interest, and One of Good Gremlins)
 * Billy Binsford (9 Year Old Son)
 * Buffy Binsford (3 Year Old Daughter)
 * Daffy Gremlin (One of Good Gremlin)

Antagonist Characters:
 * Gerte LeStrange (an cruel dog trainer)
 * Brain Gremlin (Gerte's husband)
 * Gronka (Gerte's large servant)
 * Wolves (One of antagonists)
 * Junkyard Dog (One of antagonists)
 * Stripe Gremlin and all of evil Gremlins (One of antagonists)
 * Two Dachshund (One of antagonists)
 * K9 Terror Dogs (One of antagonists)
 * Angel (Binford's Dog's evil brother, One of antagonists)

Release
Family Dog, Gizmo and Gremlins was released in theaters on November 25, 1992.

Box office
Family Dog, Gizmo and Gremlins opened at No. 4 behind Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Aladdin, it was screened in 1,691 cinemas and grossed $77,802,165 during it's opening weekend and on it's second week, it earned $194,685,990 worldwide.

Critical response
The film received mixed reviews from critics.

Home media
The film was first released on VHS and Laserdisc in April 27, 1993.

Main Transcript

 * Main article: Family Dog, Gizmo and Gremlins/Transcript

Trailer transcripts

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International Release Dates

 * USA - November 25, 1992