I strongly suspect Joe Dante was told a Gremlins sequel would be made with or without him, by the corporate studio that owned the rights to his creations. So he took the money, and made that studio the butt of the joke.

Except that unlike Matrix Regurgitated, which is a dumpster fire where pointless ideas go to die - to salt the earth and prevent a repeat I suspect - Gremins 2: The New Batch is a masterwork of anticorporate satire.

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