Boing! Too

'Boing! Too' is a 2021 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy-drama produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by LeSean Thomas. It is the sequel to 2017's Boing!.

Like the first film, the film stars Trey Songz alongside Kevin Hart, Lady Gaga, Ryan Reynolds, Naya Rivera posthumously in her final film role before her death, RZA, Mary J. Blige, Rick Ross, Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Jordyn Raya James, Young Thug and Billy Dee Williams alongside new cast members such as Robert Pattinson, Stephen Lang, Vin Diesel, Ludacris, and. The film was on August 13, 2021 after being pushed back from its original release date due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. The film received generally positive reviews with most critics calling it "a fantastic follow up to the first film", although criticism was on it's uneven plot with some critics calling the film derivative to the first film but overall the film was a box office success despite making less than the original, grossing $452 million worldwide.

Plot
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Voice cast

 * Trey Songz as Christopher "Chris" Groove, a college student who is a professional boxer beating Barney Hughes in a boxing match during his sophomore year of high school and the middle child of the Groove family.
 * Naya Rivera as Mary Jane Young, Chris' girlfriend. This is her last voice role before her death from drowning in July 2020.
 * Kevin Hart as Jim, one of Chris' friends.
 * Robert Pattinson as Bobby Rae, an old childhood friend of Chris.
 * Stephen Lang as Austin Misters, Grandpa Dee's old rival.
 * Vin Diesel
 * Ludacris
 * RZA as Roderick Groove, Chris' rapping and tap dancing father.
 * Mary J. Blige as Amy Groove, Chris' singing mother.
 * Rick Ross as Devin Groove, Chris' older brother and a basketball player with a talent of being a magician. He is the oldest of the Groove children.
 * Angela Bassett as Aunt Mary, the clumsy aunt and a talented cook.
 * Young Thug as Arthur, the instigator of Chris' high school whose only talent is playing baseball.
 * Taye Diggs as Uncle Drew, the strict uncle of Chris and a daredevil.
 * Jordyn Raya James as Josephine, Chris' younger sister with her voice acting abilities and the youngest of the Groove children.
 * Billy Dee Williams as Grandpa Dee
 * Lady Gaga as Jenifer, one of Chris' friends and is his ex-girlfriend who is talented in beat boxing.
 * Ryan Reynolds as Mike Mike, one of Chris' friends.

Development
In August 2017, when asked about sequels to the first film, producer Roy Conli said that Pharrell Williams, RZA, and Jordan Roberts, and he "work very, very well together, so I believe we will be developing a new project. But I don't know what that is right now." In late November of that year, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan F. Horn stated that a sequel was in production but however wasn't going to be under Xtranormal Animation Studios due to all of Xtranormal's units either being shut down and folded or moved to other parts of the Walt Disney Company.

On March 12, 2018, at Disney's annual meeting of shareholders in San Francisco, Iger, Lasseter, and actor Taye Diggs (the voice of Uncle Drew) officially announced a full-length sequel, ''Boing! Too'', was in development at Disney Animation Studios, with LeSean Thomas returning as directors and Roy Conli returning as producer. Lasseter said that at Disney Animation, "as with Pixar, when we do a sequel, it is because the filmmakers who created the original have created an idea that is so good that it's worthy of these characters." He said that in the case of Boing!, the directors had "come up with a great idea for a sequel and you will be hearing a lot more about it, and we're taking you back to Arendelle." According to the Los Angeles Times, there was "considerable internal debate" at Disney over whether to proceed with a Boing! sequel at Disney Animation, but the unprecedented success of the first film apparently swayed Disney executives towards making a sequel.

In a September 2018 interview with The Arizona Republic, Trey Songz confirmed that he'll return to the role as Chris and was spotted recording his lines as well.

On September 28, Gad announced his role in the sequel with Buck, Lee, Del Vecho and Lasseter.

Jonathan Groff (the voice of Kristoff) said earlier in July 2017, "I don't know anything about it yet other than I'm about to start recording my section of it." On October 11, he confirmed on the British talk show Lorraine that he too had started recording for the sequel the previous month.

In an October 2017 interview with CinemaBlend, Bell said that there will be some new characters too. She further said that the directors and the producers had "taken their trip to Norway" and took "the entire culture in" to make this "fun home movie." She added that Lee had drafted personal journals in character as Elsa and Anna "for months to try and figure out [what they'd say]". From the Scandinavia research trip, the production team derived the important insight (as paraphrased by Animation Magazine) that "Elsa is very clearly a mythic hero who takes on the world and the world’s problems with supernatural powers, while Anna is a fairytale hero who is human and lives in a world that’s surrounded by magic, but she doesn’t possess magic herself." They also realized that what makes the original Frozen so powerful is how it combines these two different types of stories.

In March 2018, Lee said in an interview that she was doing the second draft out of six drafts, which she referred as "six screenings". In July 2018, it was announced that Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown had entered talks to join the cast in undisclosed roles. In August 2018, Allison Schroeder, the screenwriter of Hidden Figures and Disney's Christopher Robin, was hired to assist Lee with writing the film's screenplay after Lee succeeded Lasseter as Disney Animation's chief creative officer. Lee was credited as screenwriter. Schroeder was credited with additional screenplay material.

Meanwhile, Megan Harding, who had previously directed a 2014 making-of ABC television special about Frozen, reached out to Disney Animation about whether she could document the production of Frozen II. While working on the television special, both Harding and Del Vecho had wished that cameras had been there a year earlier to document the production of Frozen (rather than interviewing people talking about the process after the fact). Harding began to travel regularly from her base in New York City to Burbank with camera crews in tow, and ended up shooting 1,300 hours of footage on 115 shooting days from December 2018 through the November 2019 world premiere. According to Harding, Disney Animation provided full cooperation knowing she intended to take a "fearless" and "honest look" at its filmmaking process; her crew was asked to leave the room only once, and that moment (and the reason why) ended up in her documentary. Harding's documentary would later reveal that by December 2018, it had already been firmly established that Elsa was following a mysterious voice, but the production team had not yet resolved the critical question of the identity of The Voice.

The first presentation of completed scenes from the movie was shown at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2019. At the Annecy presentation, head of animation Becky Bresee and head of effects animation Marlon West said that as of mid-June 2019, the film was "still in production, with seven weeks of animation to be completed and 10 weeks of special effects."

At the 2019 D23 Expo, the directors said that the sequel will answer the questions that were left open by the original film; "Why does Elsa have magical powers", "Why was Anna born without powers", "Where were their parents going when their ship sank", and more will be addressed. It was announced that Brown's role is a soldier in the Arendelle army who worked for Elsa and Anna's grandfather King Runeard, and Wood announced that her role would be shown in flashback and that it would help "uncover some mysteries that we didn't know before".

Throughout the production of the film, filmmakers collaborated with Sámi experts on the depiction of the fictional Northuldra tribe. An advisory group, Verdett, was formed. This collaboration was the result of an agreement between The Walt Disney Company, the transnational Saami Council, and the Sámi parliaments of Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Additionally, while some fans campaigned for Elsa to receive a female love interest in the film, Anderson-Lopez confirmed that Elsa will have no love interest in the movie. Lee later explained to Maureen Dowd that they had put the characters through Myers-Briggs tests, and "[i]t really came out that Elsa is not ready for a relationship."

During a press conference for the film, Lee confirmed that the sequel would not feature elements from Once Upon a Time 's Frozen storyline, since she had "made a point of certain things not to see" while developing the film.

Animation
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Release
Originally the film was supposed to be released on April 17, 2020, until being delayed to it's current release date due to the coronavirus pandemic as well as Disney's update film schedule.

Marketing
The teaser trailer was released on. The first trailer was released on, while the second one was released on , and the final trailer was released on.

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Box office
''Boing! Too'' grossed $201.2 million in the United States and $251.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $452.6 million.

In the United States and Canada, ''Boing! Too was released alongside Free Guy, Respect and Don't Breathe 2'', and is projected to gross $15–18 million from 4,300 theaters in its opening weekend. However, after the film made $22 million on it's opening day including $5.4 million in Thursday night previews, projections were increased to $45–50 million. The film ended up making $54.2 million on it's opening weekend.

Critical response
''Boing! Too has an approval rating of 80% based on 336 professional reviews on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 6.7/10, lower than Boing!'' 's 93% rating out of 250 reviews. The former's critical consensus reads, "Boing! Too can't quite recapture the showstopping feel of its predecessor, but it remains a funny flick." Metacritic (which uses a weighted average) assigned ''Boing! Too a score of 64 out of 100 score based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews", whereas Boing!'' received a higher 75 score out of 48 critics. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A− (lower than Boing! 's A) on an A+ to F scale, and PostTrak rated it 4.5 out of five stars on the film's opening day.