Boing! Too

'Boing! Too' is a 2022 American 3D computer-animated adventure musical 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 February 4, 2022 after being pushed back from its original release date due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. The film received 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 $861 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest grossing film of 2022.

A sequel is currently in development.

Plot
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Voice cast

 * Trey Songz as Christopher "Chris" Groove, a college student who is a professional pogostick rider after beating Barney Hughes in a pogostick contest 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.

Naya Rivera (the voice of Mary Jane Young) said earlier in July 2018, "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 she too had started recording for the sequel the previous month.

In an October 2018 interview with CinemaBlend, Thomas said that there will be some new characters too. He 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." He added that Lee had drafted personal journals in character as Chris and Mary "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 "Chris is very confident sports and athlete who is always confident in winning no matter what, 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 2019, Lee said in an interview that she was doing the second draft out of six drafts, which she referred as "six screenings". In July 2019, 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 2018 making-of ABC television special about Boing!, reached out to Disney Animation about whether she could document the production of ''Boing! Too''. 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 Boing! (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 2020 through the February 2022 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 2021, it had already been firmly established that Chris would be challenging somebody from his family's past

The first presentation of completed scenes from the movie was shown at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2021. At the Annecy presentation, head of animation Becky Bresee and head of effects animation Marlon West said that as of mid-June 2021, the film was "still in production, with seven weeks of animation to be completed and 10 weeks of special effects."

At the 2021 D23 Expo, the directors said that the sequel will answer the questions that were left open by the original 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 film's official teaser trailer was released on July 6, 2022, and was attached to showing of Marvel's Black Widow. The official trailer was later released on September 15, 2023, and was attached to Alaina Gleen: World's Most Wanted. The final trailer was released on December 1, 2021, and attached to Cool Spot: Spot Goes to Hollywood.

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Box office
''Boing! Too'' grossed $407.1 million in the United States and $454.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $861.7 million.

In the United States and Canada, ''Boing! Too was released alongside Jackass Forever and Moonfall'', and was initially projected to make $75–80 million from 4,300 theaters in its opening weekend. However, after the film made $38 million on it's opening day including $6 million in Thursday night previews, projections were increased to $90–100 million. The film ended up making $102.2 million in its opening weekend. In it's second weekend, the film dropped -59% and made $41.9 million while remaining in first. The film later surpassed the original film's gross on May 28, 2022.

Overseas, the film was expected to make $95–110 in its opening weekend for a worldwide opening of $170–198 million. The film ended up overperforming, making $142.3 million overseas for a worldwide debut of $262.5 million.

Critical response
''Boing! Too has an approval rating of 75% 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 with catchy songs and great action." Metacritic (which uses a weighted average) assigned ''Boing! Too a score of 44 out of 100 score based on 47 critics, indicating "average 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 3.5 out of five stars on the film's opening day.

Future
LeSean Thomas stated that Disney green-lit a third film. Thomas teased that the third film would possibly focus on boxing rather than pogo jumping. On February 8, 2023, it was announced that a third film is in production.