Monster Family 2

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Monster Family 2
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byHolger Tappe
Screenplay by David Safier
Based onHappy 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]

Contents

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

A young girl named Mila, who is part of the Starr family, infiltrates Count Dracula's castle, and awakens Dracula, who has been frozen by the Wishbone family, [a] who then the girl traps Dracula, and captures him for the Starr family. The family instructs Mila to capture Baba Yaga on her next mission.

The Wishbone family visit a wedding where Yaga and Renfield are about to be married, when Mila abducts both witches and takes them to her family. Max, determined to save the both witches, uses Yaga's magic amulet, and transforms his family into monsters as like before. Meanwhile, the Starr family gives Mila a mission to capture Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, while Max uses the amulet to find the location of where Mila is going. Max tries to get to Loch Ness using the amulet to transport there, but to no avail. The family then goes to a farm, where it houses Dracula's bat-jet, and take the jet to head to Loch Ness.

There, they find Mila, who starts to fight the family, while Mila manages to shrink Nessie. As Mila successfully returns to the surface, Max develops a crush on Mila, but Mila leaves to head to the snow mountains to capture a yeti. The family goes to the jet to catch up with her to the mountains. A yeti scares the family, but Frank befriends the yeti, only for the yeti to be instantly shrunk by Mila. Fay tries to give chase, only for her powers to trigger an avalanche, while Mila manages to escape. The family slide down the mountain, where they find Mila about to fall off a cliff, but Max saves Mila from falling. As Mila returns to her family, she refuses to capture her final monster. Her family take Mila to the highest point of the headquarters, where all the monsters are imprisoned here, and Mila later accepts to capture the final monster.

Max uses the amulet to find Mila heading to Tora Tora, and the family head there. As the family confront Mila, a giant gorilla named King Conga appears, and Mila was unable to shrink the gorilla, but the gorilla seemed friendly. As the gorilla snaps, the family play music to entertain the gorilla. Meanwhile, the family seems worried about Mila wasting her time on other children. As Mila shrinks the gorilla in the middle of the night, her family calls, and the family tricks Mila into thinking her mother is sick, and order her to return the gorilla immediately. At the headquarters, all the captured monsters powers are injected to a clone of Mila, and her family reveals that Mila is not part of her family, and Mila 2.0 is ordered to eliminate the original Mila.

As Mila tearfully flees from the Starr family, the Wishbone family suddenly appear, and Mila tells them that the Starr family are corrupt, and that she is disowned. Mila 2.0 confronts them, but the family activates the elevator to take them to the highest headquarters, while Mila 2.0 pursues them. Mila 2.0 defeats the original Mila, while Max catches the original Mila. Max uses the amulet to teleport them to the highest headquarters, but are quickly returned to the elevator because of the amulet's low power after self doubt of his family. At the elevator, Max reconciles with his family, and they are about to turn back to normal, only to no avail because Max is not happy yet. Mila 2.0 attacks the family, and are taken to the headquarters. The family are turned back to normal, and Max finds the bats are holding the shrink ray. As the bats drop the shrink ray, Max decides to distract the Starr family by a dance, before the bats finally arrive, and Max takes the shrink ray, and tries to aim it at Mila 2.0, but instead shrinks the family, and destroys the headquarters in the process. The family un-imprissions the monsters in the ensuing destruction, while the Starr family flees in the Starr-copter. Max successfully shrinks Mila 2.0, and the Wishbone family trap her, but Dracula escapes, swearing revenge, only to be quickly shrunk by Max.

As the family celebrates, Conga's weight causes the headquarters to collapse, prompting the Wishbone family to flee, while Max and Mila frees Mila 2.0. Max falls, but Mila saves him, but Mila 2.0 blinds the original Mila, leaving Max to give command to Mila's control. After successfully maneuvering the collapsing headquarters, Mila 2.0 is run over by the Starr family controlling the Starr-copter. The family, and with Max and Mila's relationship developed, watch Yaga and Renfield get married.

Voice cast

Release

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

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

  1. As depicted in Monster Family (2017)

References

  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.