Animaniacs 2

Animaniacs 2 is an American animated comedy live-action / animated hybrid comedy film which serves as an sequel to Animaniacs, based on the 1993 television series created by Tom Ruegger. Directed by David Soren (who directed the first film) and written by Brian Lynch and Ruegger, it stars Anna Kendrick, Christina Ricci, Steve Zahn, Will Arnett, Tom Holland, and Jack Dylan Grazer with Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, and Tress MacNeille serving as the voices for Yakko, Wakko, and Dot.

Despite being announced in 2020, the film had a troubled production history that the first film's writers Steven Spielberg and Tim Story abandoned the project to work on their films, Tom & Jerry and Jurassic World: Dominion. Soren hired Lynch to help Ruegger with the script. Eric Goldberg, an animator for Warner Bros. and The Walt Disney Company, signed on as the animation director after Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone signed off of the first film in January 2017.

The film released in Dolby Cinema on March 30, 2023 and just like it's first film, received positive reviews from Animaniacs fans.

Synopsis
As a sequel to the 2019 Animaniacs film, we follow the lives of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot living with their new roommates Ariana, Jack, and Mel Palante after the events of the first film. When the Animaniacs and Ariana sneak into the basement and find a magical book, they, along with the other characters of the Animaniacs series get transferred into the book and get portrayed as wizards from the 1700s with dinosaurs and dragons. After getting rules from a wise woman, they must complete the story in order to get out of the book and return to their normal and zany lives.

Plot
After having flashbacks from the previous film, this movie opens up with Yakko, Wakko, and Dot watching television in Ariana's room at nighttime until Ariana scolds Yakko, Wakko, and Dot and decides to put them down in the basement that they find "scary."

Eventually, when Dot turns on the light, they see that it's a large mansion stuffed inside of one small room and Yakko, Wakko, and Dot decide to play in there instead of going to bed. However, they later fall asleep due to getting too tired. Ariana's nephew, Jack, comes down the basement before leaving in frustration, later getting the title card: "Animaniacs 2". The next morning, Ariana wakes up to get ready for school, but Jack and Ariana's father Mel tell them that it's the first day of summer and that Ariana is an adult which shows a montages of Ariana and the Warner Siblings having fun.

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot both show the basement of Ariana, but then have fun, but the next hour, they are bored. They then decide to somehow explore another basement, which yes, is located in an actual basement. Going in the rusty laundry room (with Jack catching them, but promising not to tell Mel) and move one of them, only to find out an secret wall with secret stuff hidden from Ariana, Jack, and Mel's ancestors. While Yakko, Wakko, and Dot search through the stuff, Ariana finds a book named "The Great 1700s", in which Wakko believes that it is a stupid name. Dot then gets the idea of bringing their new neighbor Paul into their basement, in which Paul is curious to look at.

Paul, very excited for new adventures, soon opens the book, later teleporting them, and the Animaniacs characters (including Rita and Runt, Skippy and Slappy, Pinky and the Brain, Buttons and Mindy, and Hello Nurse) into the book. Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, then blaming Paul for the situation, finds a village, where all of the villagers (who are mostly Looney Tunes, The Flintstones, and Tom and Jerry characters) aren't happy since their king, Harris III, retired and left them in the old forest. A wise woman, going by the name of Ella, tells them the story of why Harris III left, was that he was tired of doing stuff for everyone. Ella tells the Animaniacs, Ariana, and Paul that they can find Harris III and restore the village to peace.

Pinky and his boss The Brain, whom both has a drone, quickly informs the other Animaniacs characters. Hello Nurse, later quits her nurse job (though still having her nurse uniform on) to find Harris, Buttons' owner leaves and Buttons is now to watch Mindy. Buttons gets informed by The Brain on a radio and decides to go and bring Mindy with him, though accidentally having her fall down the stairs. To have more time (for somethin'), Paul interrupts the movie and shows a clip of two commercials before cutting to Rita and Runt, who handshake eachother before going and Skippy and Slappy Squirrel later ride horses there.

Before Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Ariana, and Paul go to find the king, Ella informs them that there are many obstacles including knights, guards, puzzles, mazes, booby traps, fire, quicksand, and many, many more. Thanking Ella for her help, they then agree to make Ella come alomg with them. Before they go again, Wakko informs them if they should remind the villagers, but they do remind them, in which they celebrate and then finally go to their adventure. Meanwhile with Buttons and Mindy, they bump into knights and guards with swords. Buttons puts Mindy behind him and attacks all of the guards, leaving Buttons victorious with Mindy clapping, but a bullet from a rocket launcher explodes, sending them all the way to the village, with Yakko questioning what he saw in the sky, but then, Wakko stops them to enjoy a lunch (sandwich) break, and then go on.

While Pinky and the Brain are on their quest to get their king back, they run into a fire-breathing dragon, in which Pinky and the Brain defeat after Pinky uses idiotic words to confuse and defeat the dragon. After this, Pinky and the Brain stop to drink some ginger-ale and then go to continue their quest. Later then, the camera zooms all the way (far away) to Harris' castle, in which Harris is guarded by two guards: Ralph and an unnamed guard. When Harris finds out about the people trying to bring him back to his village, he decides to send Ralph and the unnamed guard to stop them, since Harris is 88 years old and an retired king.

Hello Nurse bumps into tree monsters, but uses her karate skills (when she used in second grade) to defeat them and runs off. Meanwhile, Animaniacs, Ariana, Paul, and Ella climb into Ralph and the unnamed guard, in which the Animaniacs chase Ralph in the forest, and then to the maze, where Ralph gets stuck, and the Animaniacs escape the maze while the unnamed guard was somehow smashed to pieces by Dot' s mallet, in which Ella says that if is impressive. Buttons and Mindy run behind them, in which Buttons makes a race with them, though Mindy and Buttons lose and get thrown all the way back to the village, making Buttons grunt and collapse.

Live-action

 * Anna Kendrick as Ariana Palante, a 29-year-old girl.
 * Christina Ricci as Ella Stampkee, a wise woman.
 * Tom Holland as Paul DavisonMak, the friend of Ariana.
 * Steve Zahn as Mel Palante, the father of Ariana who is 47.
 * Jack Dylan Grazer as Jack Palante, the nephew of Ariana.

Voice cast

 * Rob Paulsen as Yakko Warner, the oldest sibling of the Warner Siblings.
 * Paulsen also voices Pinky, the sidekick of The Brain.
 * Paulsen also voices Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff, a scientist who once tried to make the Animaniacs less-zany.
 * Jess Harnell as Wakko Warner, the eldest sibling of the Warner Siblings.
 * Tress MacNeille as Dot Warner, the youngest sibling of the Warner Siblings.
 * MacNeille also voices Hello Nurse, a nurse at the Warner Bros. lot. The character was previously voiced by Emma Stone in the first film.
 * Will Arnett as King Harris III, the former king of the village.
 * Nancy Cartwright as Mindy, the child of Buttons' owner, in which Mindy is always protected by Buttons.
 * Dee Bradley Baker as a dragon that Pinky and the Brain run into.
 * Roger L. Jackson as Unnamed Guard, the partner of Ralph.
 * Maurice LaMarche as The Brain, a small mouse who wants to take over the world.
 * LaMarche also voices Wakko's burps.
 * Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff, a braindead 5-year-old.
 * Kath Soucie as Lola Bunny, the girlfriend of Bugs.
 * Frank Welker as Buttons, the guard of Mindy.
 * Weller also voices Ralph T. Guard, a guard at the Warner Bros. lot.
 * Welker also voices Thaddeus Plotz, former chairman of Warner Bros.
 * Welker, along with Kenny James and Dee Bradley Baker, voices the dinosaurs and the dragons.
 * Bob Bergen as Porky Pig, a stuttering pig.
 * Asher Blinkoff as Sylvester Junior, the son of Sylvester. The character was previously voiced by Javon Walton in the first film.
 * Candi Milo as Granny, the owner of Sylvester and Tweety.
 * Eric Bauza as Tweety Bird, the pet of Granny.
 * Bauza also voices Daffy Duck, a duck who is the rival of Bugs Bunny.
 * Bauza also voices some of Porky's lines.
 * Jeff Bergman as Bugs Bunny, an bunny who always outsmarts Daffy Duck.
 * Bergman also voices Foghorn Leghorn, a chicken who is also a car engineer.
 * Bergman also voices Fred Flintstone, a man from the stone-age.
 * Bergman also voices Sylvester, the cat of Granny who tries to eat Tweety all the time.
 * Bergman also voices Beaky Buzzard, the rival of Bugs.
 * Grey DeLisle as Wilma Flintstone, the wife of Fred from the stone-age.