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Monster Family 2

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Monster Family 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHolger Tappe
Screenplay byDavid Safier
Based on
Happy Family
by David Safier
Produced byHolger Tappe
Starring
Music by
  • Apollon de Moura
  • Adrian Gucze
  • Jascha Heldicke
  • Sascha Knorr
  • Eric Krause
  • Andreas Kübler
  • Sebastian Kübler
  • Florian Wunsch
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 15 October 2021 (2021-10-15) (United States)
  • 22 October 2021 (2021-10-22) (United Kingdom)
  • 4 November 2021 (2021-11-04) (Germany)
Running time
103 minutes[2]
Countries
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40 million
Box office$6.7 million[3]

Monster Family 2 (also known as Monster Family 2: Nobody's Perfect[1] and released as Happy Family 2 in Germany)[4] is a 2021 animated comedy horror film directed and produced by Holger Tappe, and written by David Safier. A sequel to the 2017 film Monster Family, the voice cast includes Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost, Jessica Brown Findlay, Catherine Tate, Ethan Rouse (all reprising their roles) and Emily Carey.[2]

The film was released via video on demand in the UK as a Sky Cinema Original Film by the Sky Group on 22 October 2021, and was released in US cinemas by VivaKids a week earlier on 15 October.[5][6][7]

Plot

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A young girl named Mila, who is part of the Starr family, infiltrates Count Dracula's castle, where the Wishbone family's old nemesis lives, to capture Dracula, who has been frozen by the latter family.[a] The Starr family instructs Mila to capture Baba Yaga on her next mission.

The Wishbone family visit a wedding to witness Yaga and Renfield gettin married. Mila arrives and kidnaps both witches. Max, determined to save the both witches, uses Yaga's magic amulet to transform his family into monsters as like before. Meanwhile, the Starr family gives Mila a mission to capture Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. The Wishbones reach Loch Ness, but are attacked by Mila, who then manages to capture Nessie.

As Mila returns to the surface, Max develops a relationship on Mila, but Mila leaves to head to a snow mountain to capture a yeti. The Wishbones arrive and confront Mila, but Fay accidentally triggers an avalanche, which knocks Mila onto a cliff, being saved by Max. She then sets off to Tora Tora to capture her final monster.

As the Wishbones reach Tora Tora, a giant gorilla named King Conga suddenly appears. Mila captures the gorilla and takes it back to the lab, where all the monsters are injected to a clone of Mila dubbed Mila 2.0. Her family reveals that Mila is not part of her family, and Mila 2.0 is ordered to eliminate the original Mila.

As Mila flees, the Wishbone family arrive, and Mila shares what happened. Mila 2.0 captures the group and takes them to the Starr family. The Wishbones are reverted back to their normal forms. Max tries to shrink Mila 2.0 with a shrink gun, but shrinks the Starr family instead, wrecking the headquarters in the process. The Wishbones free the monsters in the ensuing destruction, while Max successfully shrinks Mila 2.0. However, Dracula escapes, swearing revenge, only to be quickly shrunken by Max.

The headquarters begins to collapse, prompting the Wishbones and the monsters to flee. Mila frees Mila 2.0, but Max falls. While Mila rescues him, Mila 2.0 blinds the original Mila, leaving Max to give command to Mila's control. They successfully evade the collapsing headquarters, and they return to the surface. Yaga and Renfield are then successfully married. The two then imprison Dracula in a smaller version of his castle, who enacts revenge.

Voice cast

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  • Emily Watson as Emma Wishbone, the matriarch of the Wishbone family who is turned into a vampire again.
  • Nick Frost as Frank Wishbone, the patriarch of the Wishbone family who is turned into Frankenstein's monster again.
  • Jessica Brown Findlay as Fay Wishbone, the daughter of Emma and Frank who is turned into a mummy again.
  • Ethan Rouse as Max Wishbone, the son of Emma and Frank who is turned into a werewolf again.
  • Catherine Tate as Baba Yaga, a witch who is now friends with the Wishbone family.
  • Jason Isaacs as:
    • Count Dracula, a vampire and the Wishbone family's old nemesis who seeks revenge on them for foiling his plans even though he is the first monster the Starr family had captured. Although he was the main antagonist in the first film, he is the secondary antagonist in this sequel.
    • Dracula A.I., the A.I. of the jet that the Wishbone family uses.
  • Emily Carey as:
    • Mila Starr, an expert monster hunter.
    • Mila 2.0
  • Rebecca Camp as Girl #1
  • Daniel Ben Zenou as Maddox Starr, a billionaire philanthropist who is the father of Mila and one of the main antagonists in this film.
  • Emma Tate as:
    • Marlene Starr, a billionaire philanthropist who is the mother of Mila and one of the main antagonists in this film.
    • Girl #2
    • Female News Presenter
  • Ewan Bailey as:
    • Renfield, a hunchbacked former servant of Count Dracula and Baba Yaga's fiancé.
    • Reverend
    • Fisherman
    • Male News Presenter
    • Farmer
  • Matt Roberts as Protester
  • Oliver Kalfkofe as a Yeti that the Starr family caught.
  • Tilo Schmitz as King Konga, a giant gorilla.

Release

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Monster Family 2 was released on October 15, 2021 by VivaKids in the United States, and then on October 22 as a Sky Cinema original by Sky in the United Kingdom. It was later released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 7, 2022 as a 2-movie collection with the original film "Monster Family" by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (through Warner Bros. Home Entertainment).

Reception

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 20% of 5 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.8/10.[8] Tom Cassidy of Common Sense Media gave Monster Family 2 a negative review, calling it "frightfully bad" and "a hollow experience".[6] A review in Stuff.co.nz described the film as "a pallid, insipid sequel that will struggle to entertain even the most undemanding primary schooler".[9] Pablo De Vita of La Nación offered a more positive review, stating that the movie was entertaining, albeit derivative.[10]

Notes

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  1. ↑ As depicted in Monster Family (2017)

References

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  1. 1 2 Kay, Jeremy (5 August 2021) Sequel to animated international hit 'Monster Family' lands US distribution (exclusive) Archived 2021-09-18 at the Wayback Machine. Screen Daily. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 Monster Family 2 (aka Happy Family 2) Archived 2021-12-05 at the Wayback Machine. Timeless Films. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Monster Family 2 (2021)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  4. ↑ Kinderfilme: Es muss nicht immer Disney sein Archived 2021-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, 5 October 2021. (in German). Wiener Zeitung. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Milligan, Mercedes (30 September 2021) Trailer: The Hunt for Fun Is on in 'Monster Family 2: Nobody's Perfect' Archived 2022-01-20 at the Wayback Machine. Animation Magazine. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. 1 2 Monster Family 2 Archived 2021-10-22 at the Wayback Machine at Common Sense Media. Reviewed by Cassidy, Tom. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  7. ↑ Monster Family 2 Archived 2021-10-25 at the Wayback Machine on Sky. Sky Cinema, owned by the Sky Group. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Monster Family 2". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
  9. ↑ Croot, James (March 4, 2022). "Monster Family 2: A pallid, inspid animated sequel that struggles to entertain". Stuff.co.nz. Archived from the original on July 29, 2022. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
  10. ↑ De Vita, Pablo (December 2, 2021). "Estrenos de cine: La familia Monster 2 entretiene con una historia efectiva y convencional". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 29, 2022. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
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