Greeny Phatom: The Movie 2

Greeny Phatom The Movie 2 is a 2016 American live-action/hand-drawn animated/CGI animated comedy fantasy adventure film based on the animated television series Greeny Phatom created by Robert Stainton. The film is a sequel to the 2002 animated film Greeny Phatom The Movie. It was directed by Terry Ward, one of the writers of the first film, and written by Stainton, Gabriel Garcia, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Mike Reiss and Jon Vitti. The movie stars the regular television cast (Robert Stainton, Billy Crystal, Jason Lee, James Clayton, Owen Wilson, Geo G., Tony Daniels, Tom Kenny and Martin Sherman), who are returning to reprise their respective roles from the series and the previous film, with guest appearances by Sachi Matsumoto as Toon Link and Drew Adkins as Arthur Read. The film is produced by 20th Century Fox Animation, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Wonder, Sesame Workshop, DHX Media and Film Roman and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was released in 2D and 3D on August 23, 2013. The film received generally positive reviews, and proved to be a box office success, earning $729 million on a budget of $73 million.

Plot
Little Guy has been working on his new clone, but when Gree Guy came and put his own chewing gum into the DNA scanner of the cloning machine, it made a brand-new evil clone named Dark Little Guy. Gree Guy is back for revenge. With help from Dark Little Guy, Gree Guy is in search of the final object, which happens to be the blue and green toy (which Dr. Beanson purchased from Toys R Us in the first film), so he can add it to the Triton that he possesses. With the Triton in Gree Guy's hands, he could use it to write any evil plan and make it happen. When the entire city of 123 Greeny Phatom is put into danger, Little Guy and his friends (Dr. Beanson, Little Guy 2, Geo Guy, Dr. PBS, Green Bob, Santed Sailor, and Toon Link) need to go on an incredible quest that takes them to Los Angeles inside the alternate live-action universe. In order to get back the toy and save their city in the 'Greenytoons' universe, the gang must retrieve the Triton and transform themselves into a superhero league called 'The GreenyHeroes'.

Cast

 * Robert Stainton as Little Guy and Santed Sailor
 * Sachi Matsumoto as Toon Link
 * James Clayton and Owen Wilson as Little Guy 2
 * Geo G. as Geo Guy
 * Jason Lee as Dr. Beanson
 * Tom Kenny as Green Bob and Lucas Guy
 * Billy Crystal as Doctor
 * Tony Daniels as Little Guy 3
 * Martin Sherman as Green Bob 2
 * Drew Adkins as Dark Little Guy
 * Ulises Tobar as Gree Guy
 * Tara Strong as Toon Zelda
 * Georgia Denney as Little Girl

Production
After the release of Greeny Phatom The Movie in 2002, Robert Stainton confirmed that they might work on a Greeny Phatom movie sequel. In late 2009, The New York Times reported that the Greeny Phatom team are developing a sequel to Greeny Phatom The Movie. In 2011, it was first announced under the title of "Untitled Greeny Phatom sequel". Other titles that had been considered include, among others Greeny Phatom: The Second Film, Greeny Phatom The Movie: The Sequel and Greeny Phatom The Movie 2: Little Guy and The Mystery to New York (before getting split apart). The film was originally going to be fully animated, but the executives at Fox made it into a live-action/animated movie instead.

Music
David Newman returned to compose the themes for the movie while Olaf Henderson and Steven Price composed the film score.

Release
The film was released on August 23, 2013. The film also includes an original animated short film made by Robert Stainton and Terry Ward, "Crazy Nuts". Promotional television spots for the movie featured the song "Stupid Grin" by Dragonette.

Marketing
The teaser trailer was released on November 9, 2012, and was attached to Lincoln and Rise of the Guardians, The first trailer was released on March 22, 2013, attached to The Croods, and the last trailer on May 24, 2013, attached to Epic, Monsters University and Despicable Me 2.

Home media
Greeny Phatom The Movie 2 was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-Ray 3D on November 26, 2013.

Box office
Greeny Phatom The Movie 2 was a box office success, earning $729 million on a budget of $73 million.

Critical reception
Greeny Phatom The Movie 2 recieved generally positive reviews from critics and audiences. The film scored a 80% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The critics' consensus read: "Greeny Phatom The Movie 2 manages to bring in a different story, which is recycled from The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, but is still better than the simple "stopping the shoplifter" story from the first movie, while still having the animated slapstick humor and a cast of Greeny Phatom characters from both the show and the first movie." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.