Rap Island 2

Rap Island 2 is a 2008 American computer-animated musical comedy-drama film produced by Lionsgate Animation and Spyglass Entertainment with distribution provided by Lionsgate. It is the sequel to 2005's Rap Island while being directed by Peter Lepeniotis replacing Steve Moore from the original with the returning writing team of Brian Lynch and Will Davies. It features the reprised roles of Romeo Miller, Dennis Haybert, Kanye West, and Whitney Houston alongside the new additions of Queen Latifah, Mark Wahlberg, Cedric the Entertainer, Arsenio Hall, Jared Leto, Whitney Houston, Brandy Norwood, Carey Means, and Kevin Hart.

The film was released in theaters on April 11, 2008 in select IMAX theaters, the first film by Lionsgate Animation to do.

It received mixed reviews from critics, most who considered the film an improvement over the first film and praised the humor, musical sequences, but criticized the screenplay. It was nonetheless a box office success making $452 million worldwide.

A sequel, titled Rap Island 3, was released on February 3, 2012.

Plot
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Cast

 * Romeo Miller
 * Queen Latifah
 * Mark Wahlberg
 * Kanye West
 * Dennis Haybert
 * Cedric the Entertainer
 * Arsenio Hall
 * Jared Leto
 * Whitney Houston
 * Brandy Norwood
 * Carey Means
 * Kevin Hart
 * Phil LaMarr and Kevin Michael Richardson
 * Tom Kenny

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Critical Reception
Rap Island 2 has a 52% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 4.9/10 based on 206 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Lionsgate's Rap Island 2 is an improvement over the original film but still has lackluster moments although it embraces the roots of hip-hop." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 46, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, the same grade as the first film.

Box office
Rap Island 2 has grossed $156.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $296.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $452.3 million.

Sequel
A sequel, titled Rap Island 3, was released on February 3, 2012, to positive reviews and was a success becoming the highest grossing film in the trilogy with over $640 million.