Over the Moon 2 The Dragon King (2022)

Over the Moon 2 The Dragon King is a 2022 is an American-Chinese computer-animated adventure musical -film directed by Peter Ramsey and is a sequel to the successful 2020 Netflix film Over the Moon director and by Peter Ramsey and is made by Sony Pictures Animation and Columbia Pictures. The film stars the likes of Matt Damon, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Keegan-Michael Key, Emma Stone, Kate McKinnon Ian McShane and Phillipa Soo. The sequel follows a young blue lunarian dragon named Remy wanting to fit in at Lunaria and find his Identity but gets out of placed and flees from his home of banishment from the other lunarians and cop guards and comes across some colorful characters along the way and tries to find a way to prove himself.

The film was released September 24, 2022 in theaters and digitally on Netflix on the same day, the film gained positive reception by families and especially by parents saying "its a fun entertaining movie for very young kids who love this kind of stuff. The film also was reviewed a 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and gained 173.1 million at the box office. The movie was a massive success at the box and was the highest reviewed film next to Sea Beast (2022) and Puss and Boots: The Last Wish (2022).

Summery
"In this animated film, a little blue dragon rides a submarine across the beautiful depts of space and meets some colorful new creatures along the way, Legendary director of the Spider-Verse Peter Ramsey directs. -Netflix Synopsis

Bright young dragon who is determined to prove himself by journeying across space on the moon

"In Memory of Audrey Wells"

Plot
A young Dragon named Remy (Matt Damon) is always wanting a place for Lunaria but has never gotten any recognition cause every looks at him as joke and goof. Searching for an identity after he gets banished and when he realizes that he's out of place among the Lunarians. He ventures out into the deep side of the moon and gets joined by a series of other colorful dragon creatures to see if they might be better role models. This approach does not succeed. It's only when he meets a reclusive dragon named Long (TBA) that his journey toward self-discovery nears its destination.

Main Voice Cast

 * Matt Damon as Remy
 * Emma Stone as Luna
 * Anna Kendrick as Mellow
 * Aubrey Plaza as Plum
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Chimp
 * Kate McKinnon as Shelly the Shark
 * TBA as Long the Dragon (The Missing Dragon King)
 * TBA as Sal (Lunarian Cop)
 * Phillipa Soo as Chang'e (Moon Goddess)
 * TBA as Ni the Tinkle Star (The Last Consolation)
 * Richard Ayoade as The Iconicle (Manager of Universe)
 * Conard Ricamora as Hou Yi, (Chang'e's true love)
 * TBA as Jupiter the Green Lunarian Dog

Production
After the success of the first film in 2020, in 2021 was first announced that Netflix was in production of a brand new fresh sequel that will sadly won't have any of the same cast or characters from the first movie, and that Sony Animation Pictures would be involved it was said that the sequel would this time be directed by Pete Ramsey and that Glen Keane would be a producer and storyboard artist. The movie would this time would directly be taken inspiration from the books by Audrey Wells and that it would a dedicated adaptation from the books and other stuff from the first film. A announcement came out on a Netflix Direct video from Netflix on July of 2021 that reveled the voice cast of Matt Damon, Emma Stone, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and many more new cast for sequel that weren't in the first film. And the first teaser for the film came out on December of 2021 that shows Remy (voiced by Matt Damon) is joined by Luna (voiced by Emma Stone) in a completely white background talking about.

Release
The film was released in selected theaters for 2 weeks and was released on Netflix on the same day it hit the big screen. Prior to it's September 24th release in 2022, Over the Moon 2 was shown at the Montclair Film Festival on October 17. A day before its release, a book written by animation historian Leonard Maltin about the history about the film called Over the Moon 2 The Dragon King: Illuminating the Journey, was released on October 22. In January 2023, Netflix reported 43 million households had watched the film.

Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 100 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 10.9/12. The website's critics consensus reads: "Although many of Over the Moon 's narrative ingredients will seem familiar, the film's absorbing animation offers colorful compensation." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, the film gained a massive positive reception from families and children especially from it's younger audience and had bunch of videos from the Netflix channel on Youtube where the parents give their special message for their own experience of the film saying "It's a massive adventure for families and gives their children new and interesting knowledge of the world the galaxies far far away".

Events
Thanks to Over the Moon 2 The Dragon King's massive hit at the box office, the film keep growing everywhere in the world with merchandise, TV shorts, stage shows and even gained a Netflix series in 2023. at the Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event 2022 on the year the film came out, Greg Peters (Netflix CEO) and Peter Ramsey announced since the Over the Moon sequel massive success around the world, they announced that film will get it's own mini short film called Over the Moon: Across The Galaxy which is a 360 short film that premiered at planetarium's around the world with merchandise markets that opened at The Florida Mall with big play-on screen's that you can interact with the characters. The film also gained a playable game app called Over the Moon:

Trivia

 * This is Anna Kendrick's second animated character she has voiced next to the Trolls movies.
 * This is also Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick 4th paring since Scott Pilgrim.
 * Matt Damon had a lot fun voicing Remy since he rarely every voiced acted in a movie since Happy Feet 2
 * Chang'e barely appear in the film until around the third act.
 * Emma Stone had to use a more cuter and little more babyish kind of voice for Luna that was told by the director.
 * this is the first time Keegan-Michael Key used his Toad voice before the Mario Movie.

Future
A Netflix Original Series titled Over the Moon: The Magic Begins (2023 Series) was announced in November of 2022 and was released in May of 2023. A preschool block of five main characters going on little adventures and having fun activities while saying hi to some human friends on their belly screens. The five celebrities even return for the series for a whole season.