Tarantino just came out and said it when talking to Roth: He thinks "Gremlins 2" is Joe Dante's best movie. As he put it: ...
"Gremlins 2: The New Batch" opens with a real Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones himself, and the film only gets more wild and insane from there, with a cavalcade of insane fourth ...
Plenty of filmmakers probably wish they could terrorize film critics, but Joe Dante had the chance to let Leonard Maltin have it during Gremlins 2.