Family Dog Meet Gizmo & The Gremlins

The Adventures of Family Dog and Gizmo (also known as Tim Burton's Family Dog 2, Steven Spielberg's Family Dog 2: Gremlins Strikes Back!) is a 1992 American animated adventure comedy romantic dark fantasy family film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio and Tim Burton, directed by Kevin Lima, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells, animation directors: Ralph Eggleston, and Stephen J. Anderson, and released by Universal Pictures.

Chuck Jones was executive creative consultant and the screenplay was written by Joe Ranft, Jim Cox, Rachel Koretsky, Steven Whitestone, Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson and story by Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver with original music score composers by James Horner, David Newman and Michael Convertino and additional music by Danny Elfman. The story was animated by Chuck Gammage, Chris Buck, Jane Baer, and Gary Trousdale from an animation character designers by Tim Burton, 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 25, 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.

Film Summary:
When Gizmo, William Peltzer and Kate Beringer were off for another adventure for Binfords home. Family Dog accidently gets him wet. Billy, Julia, Family Dog and Katie are in love and Now the gremlins are back, Brain Gremlin returns from the dead and running mayham to take over aristocratic home and animal racing and led by an old enemy of their's Gerte LeStrange!

Plot
The movie opens five years after the dog stops the robbers (Amazing Stories) when Billy and Family Dog or The Dog (by name) lives with his unapprecpirating family the Binfords. Now 13 years old, he is being pressed by his parents, Skip and Bev, Later that day, William, Gizmo, Kate and Martin and Trish Mahoney and joins a company for Binford's family wants to move to San Francisco also they have pet animal friends like bunny, weasel, birds, hamster and goldfish are named Hoppy, Hansel, Blu, Goldilocks, Rocky and Finny. Gizmo and Family Dog are nice to meet and wonderful surprise. Unaware of the danger Brain Gremlin and Stripe were back from the dead, so he could speak to everyone. Unfortunately, Family Dog accidentally gets Gizmo wet via fire hydrant. Skip, Bev, Martin and Trish proposes to sell the mogwai gangsters to the Dog Trainer School, Then at first their skeptical about the rules and responsibility. But later at evening warm up to him as along with Billy and Family Dog had a good night sleep. Meanwhile Gerte LeStrange and her large servant Gronka were furious about the bad publicity she got on her dog training school and They steals Brain and Greta after midnight. One day the Binfords, Mahoneys, William and Kate prepare to move out, only they forget to bring son Billy, The Dog and mogwai Gizmo in the car. Family Dog, Billy, Gizmo attempts to get in the moving truck only to land in the wrong one. Family Family Dog, Billy, Gizmo ends up in a city with the Jonesons family a wealthy aristocratic home before all pets to see them are okay. The owners discover him and decide to adopt him as a racing dog. Gunter the Butler a rude, obnoxious servants to hate Jonesons family fortune (via their pets) who are the source of their financial gain. Family Dog meets a female dog Katie. That night, The Binsfords find that they forgot his son, all pets and mogwai and turn around to find them. Meanwhile Family Dog causes a series of accidents, Stripe and mowgais eating their turkey dinner with guesses here while they are chased by him, Gerte, Greta and Brain experiments coocoon when Gremlins comes out. Next morning, Kate, William, Binfords and Mahoneys find Stripe cocooned after eating leftovers at midnight, At least interfering with golf matches and creating mess chasing Gunter's cat Furball. Gunter finally snaps when Family Dog accidently strips Furball of his fur. Family Dog bites Furball's tail before Dog chasing him while Mr & Mrs Joneson decide to sell him, but are stopped when Julia and Katie wants to be kind of Furball and The Dog to keep them together. So now, Billy, Julia, Family Dog and Katie are romantic true love while Gizmo covered his eyes. However do they know, Brain deal with Gerte to kill Gizmo, Family Dog, Katie and all animals, So Gangster Gremlins were had a sinister plot and pains to put wealthly families of Jonesons, Binfords, Mahoneys, Gizmo's friends William and Kate to their human slaughter and turned human meats, by taking over the the town of San Francisco with a gremlin army. The Binfords, Mahoneys, William and Kate discover Family Dog while watching a dog race gone wrong. Gerte finally snaps when Gunter accidentally attacked by poodle Angel. All the Gremlins kidnaps them and holds a ransom. Gremlins thrown The Dog, Furball and Katie through dangerous woods with Wolves before that Furball, Family Dog and Katie being chased by a pack of wolves so they hide while wolves corners them into a hollow tree trunk while Gizmo and pet gang rescued them. At first, Everybody fights back for wolves and Pack of Canine Terrors. All the animals being chased by Wolves. They made a shortcut to junkyard, However, The Hungry Wolf, Junkyard Dog, Angel and two dachshund dognaps Katie, fortunately Family Dog used his K9 Terror Instinct to tackle them and dog fight and they falls down. She saved Family Dog life. Fortunately they help everybody to rescuing family humans to stop that mean old dog trainer and gremlins. In a LeStrange's Slaughter's New Dog School Factory in Slaughter Machine, So they puts them on a human slaughter machine to hurt families. All the pets catching a ride Burglar's broken van with license A113 and puts headlights on to destroy Stripe, and all the Gremlins and they make it to slaughter house. Inside Gerte attempts to turn them into meat body to the dogs and dinners served, before Gronka was bursts by the animals. Gerte and Brain leads the army onwards to Gangster Gremlins, that Gerte as revenge against Family Dog for ruining her business. She appears with Julia threatening to hurt her unless they hand over the Binford's dog. Fortunately Family Dog, Katie, Furball tricks Gerte and Brain and uses K9 Terror on them. So Gerte and Brain ends up crushed under a gigantic meat mixer while they exploded by slaughter machine along with Gremlins of death. Fortunately everybody escapes and free. Family Dog see his parents named Holly and Howie, So Katie sees Dog are reunited. One Month later Gronka is in jail and Family Dog and Gizmo is rejoices to the Binfords, Mahoneys, William, Kate, Butler Gunter, Jonesons and all the animals are friends. In the end The Dog & Katie are married and live happily ever after.

The End.

Voice cast

 * Billy Binford (13 year old son and Family Dog's owner) (voices of Joseph Mazzello)
 * William Peltzer and Kate Beringer (Gizmo's owner) (voices of Zach Galligan & Phoebe Cates)
 * Family Dog/The Dog (Billy's Dog) (voiced provided by Frank Welker), a main protagonist
 * Gizmo (Family Dog, and Katie's friend) (voiced provided by Howie Mandel), a deuteragonist
 * Skip Binford (Father) (voices of Frederick Coffin)
 * Beverly Binford (Mother) (voices of Sarah Jessica Parker)
 * Julia Joneson (Billy's love interest) (voices of Thora Birch)
 * Buffy Binsford (Daughter) (voices of Alisan Porter)
 * Uncle Gunter (Jonesons's butler) (voices of Nick Nolte), a major antagonist; in the end of the film Gunter's turning good to be anti-hero
 * Al (voices of Nathan Lane) in the end of the film
 * Howie & Holly (Dog's Parents) (voiced provided by Frank Welker and Mary Kay Bergman)
 * Trish Mahoney (voices of Hynden Walch)
 * Martin Mahoney (voices of Glenn Shadix)
 * Katie (Julia's pet dog, Binford's Dog's love interest) (voiced provided by Mary Kay Bergman), a tritagonist
 * Furball (Julia's pet cat, She adopted pet him after Gunter was disowned) (voiced provided by Frank Welker)
 * Mr. Joneson (voices of Patrick Dempsey)
 * Mrs. Joneson (voices of Courteney Cox)
 * Mogwais/Gremlins (voices of Kirk R. Thatcher, Frank Welker, Will Ryan, Rob Paulsen, Aaron Lustig, Bob Bergen)
 * Gangster Gremlins (voices of Tony Jay, Ron Perlman, Phil Nibbelink, Bill Fagerbakke, Scott Menville, Rob Paulsen, Aaron Lustig, Martin Mull)
 * Gerte LeStrange (voices of Glenn Close, Brain's wife, a Dog Trainer), a main antagonist
 * Brain Gremlin (voices of Patrick Stewart, leader of Gremlins, Gerte's husband), a secondary antagonist
 * Angel (Miss LeStrange's poodle) (voiced provided by Danny Mann), a territory antagonist
 * Twin Dachshunds (Miss LeStrange's dogs) (voiced provided by Frank Welker), a antagonists
 * Pack of Wolves (voiced provided by Frank Welker), the minor antagonists
 * Gronka (voices by Scott Menville)
 * Stripe (voices of John Kassir)
 * Greta Gremlin (voices of Mary Kay Bergman)

Crew

 * Directors: Kevin Lima, Simon Wells, Phil Nibbelink, Ralph Eggleston and Stephen J. Anderson
 * Executive Produced by: Thad Weinlein, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Watts
 * Produced by: Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall
 * Score Composers: Steven Bramson, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Bruce Broughton, Don Davis, Albert Lloyd Olson, Richard Stone, Stephen James Taylor, and Mark Watters
 * Songs: Music and Lyrics: James Horner, Tim Rice, Norman Gimbel and Tim Rice
 * Animation Screenplay by: Joe Ranft, Jim Cox, Rachel Koretsky, Steven Whitestone, Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson
 * Story: Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver
 * Story Adapted by: Paul Dini, Charles M. Howell, IV and Alan Burnett
 * Music Themes: Steve Bartek, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams
 * Music Performed by: The London Symphony Orchestra
 * Casting Director: Valerie McCaffrey
 * Storyboard: Linda Miller and Ron Hughart
 * Character Designer: David W. Cutler, Robin Budd and Dale Baer
 * Effects Animator: Glenn Chaika
 * Animation: Chris Buck, Tony Fucile, Eric Goldberg, Tim Burton, David W. Cutler, Dale Baer, Ron Hughart, Tom McGrath, Chuck Gammage, Kristof Serrand, Jane Baer, Rob Stevenhagen, and Gary Trousdale
 * Layouts: George Goode, Mario Piluso, Dan Krall, Ed Ghertner
 * Backgrounds: David W. Cutler, Ron Hughart
 * Animation Production by: The Baer Animation Co., Ltd. and Warner Bros. Feature Animation

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 - April 1991 before animation full-length feature film were finally finished from the Kroyer Films, The Baer Animation Company and Amblimation animation house in U.K.. The film was released in November 25, 1992. In March 28, 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 Amazing Stories short film Family Dog and Joe Dante's Gremlins themed by Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek, John Williams and 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 4.9/10.

Credits
The Adventures of Family Dog and Gizmo/Credits

Animated Series
Family Dog is a animated series by Tim Burton & Steven Spielberg. The show has been rendered slightly and has some of the new cast from before. Very little is known about the pilot for the animated TV adaptation of Joe Dante's film Gremlins, possibly titled Gizmo and the Gremlins. According the series was to involve Gizmo, the one good mogwai of the film and its sequel, fighting against the evil Gremlins. The pilot was the only episode that entered production.