Nick: The Movie 2

Nick: The Movie 2 (symbolized as Nickelodeon: The Movie 2) is an 2024 American live-action / animated comedy film directed by Tim Burton.

The movie is a sequel to the 2020 movie Nick: The Movie which had a big box office and many Nickelodeon fans demanded for an sequel. The movie stars Iain Armitage, Johnny Depp, Jace Norman, & Bryce Papenbrook with Tom Kenny as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Synopsis
After the events of the first film, the Nickelodeon characters need somebody to help them on a mission to bring back their leader after he went missing.

Plot
Three years after the first film, the Nickelodeon characters’ leader goes on a journey to claim the Nickelodeon Universe flag as theirs but 2 hours later, he doesn’t come back, causing the whole Nickelodeon universe to go haywire. And they must call in somebody who can help. An evil martian offscreen then laughs as he has captured the leader. Two days later, an young boy named Ryan gets out of bed to get ready for school. After getting ready, his friend then waits for him outside his house and they get going. After school, he and his friend have an history test about how Nickelodeon came to life and became one of the most popular television channel in history. As Timmy Turner is looking to see anybody to help them, they find Ryan and decide to select him. Ryan then gets pulled into the portal and travels to the Nickelodeon Universe to find himself animated again.

The Nickelodeon Characters then meet Ryan, saying that he doesn’t look like a helper but SpongeBob assumes that he is. Ryan then wants to know what’s going on only for Timmy to zip his mouth close and telling him that their leader has gone missing after going on a quest and they need HIM to find their leader. Patrick then brings Ryan’s friend Matthew to the universe only for the robots to carry him and Ryan to the headquarters to discuss what happened to their leader. Matthew then tells the Nickelodeon characters that he is a bit of a nerd with technology so he does some researching and finds out that they have been captured by Aliens in space. Everyone then gasps in horror. Wanda then tells everyone to think of a plan before their leader is gone forever. Ryan then finds his plan and tells the people that maybe they should build a spaceship. It would take a month to do, but not for teamwork!

1 minute of building a spaceship montage later...

Ryan then cuts the montage because the spaceship is made out of wood, only to re-do the montage. After the montage, the spaceship is later done and some of the Nickelodeon characters, Matthew, and Ryan then enter the ship and blast off into space with spacesuits. They then get attacked by aliens and their spaceship crash on to Mars. They then find a place to hide from the aliens and try to rebuild their spaceship but there is no use. Later, in the place of the aliens, their despicable leader puts the Nickelodeon Universe leader (Tom) in a cage until they find out what to do with him later. Meanwhile, they call in Jenny and Danny to fix their spaceship until aliens attack and then Jenny holds them off. Jenny then accidentally sends a alien spaceship into the galaxy, causing a major time lapse into the future.

In the future 2096, Timmy, Matthew, Ryan, and SpongeBob then find Patrick who is an old man saying that this place was destroyed 68 years ago. The gang then scream and go back to the present with Jenny still fighting the aliens and Danny has already fixed the ship. They then go into the ship and blast off, leaving the aliens behind. They then find an endangered alien named Dan who soon helps them on their quest. They then arrive at the place of the aliens and then burst in to see their leader captured.

Dafoe (the leader of the aliens) then sends his henchmen to attack the others while Ryan and SpongeBob deal with Dafoe. Matthew then hands Ryan a lightsaber (reference to Star Wars) with SpongeBob pretending to be a space hero. Jenny then bursts in the wall and knocks 39% of the aliens on the ground with 76% of them left. Dafoe then traps Ryan in a bubble while Timmy then frees Tom while Dafoe is defeated, falling into the void along with his minions. Ryan then falls until SpongeBob quickly catches him before he can fall into the void. Tom is then freed and they go back to Earth with all the Nickelodeon characters cheering. They then thank Ryan and Matthew and then go home.

In a post-credits seen, Dafoe and his minions are still falling into the void.

Cast

 * Iain Armitage as Ryan Abbuck, an 12 year old boy who gets selected to save the Nickelodeon Universe’s leader, Tom.
 * Johnny Depp as Dafoe, an evil martian and the leader of the Aliens.
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Aliens, the minions of Dafoe.
 * Jace Norman as Matthew McBrayer, an 12 year old boy and the friend of Ryan.
 * Bryce Papenbrook as Dan, a friendly alien who helps Ryan, Matthew, and the others on their quest.

Voices

 * Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, an yellow funny, and annoying sponge.
 * Janice Kawaye as Jenny Wakeman
 * Tara Strong as Timmy Turner
 * Bill Faggerbake as Patrick Star
 * Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles
 * Susan Blakeslee as Wanda
 * Daran Norris as Cosmo
 * Asher Bishop as Lincoln Loud
 * Doug Lawrence as Sheldon J. Plankton
 * Clancy Brown as Eugene Krabs
 * Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks
 * David Kaufman as Danny Phantom

Development
After the release of Nick: The Movie with a big box office, many Nickelodeon fans demanded for an second movie. In 2021, the Nickelodeon Twitter account made a picture saying: “Your favorite characters are back in Nick: The Movie 2!”, when people saw it, they got excited. Weeks after that, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller then announced that a second movie was confirmed and in development but Tim Burton would be directing it instead with Lord and Miller producing the film.

The movie was originally gonna come out as a 67 minute direct-to-DVD film until Nickelodeon wanted to make it a 114 minute film with people reprising their roles as the Nickelodeon characters.

Animation
The animation was done by several of the show’s animation studios.

Casting
Christopher Miller was hired as the casting director. He hired Iain Armitage as Ryan, Johnny Depp as Dafoe, Jace Norman as Matthew, and Bryce Papenbrook as Dan while several people reprised their role for Nickelodeon characters including Tom Kenny, Janice Kawaye, Tara Strong, Rodger Bumpass, Susan Blakeslee, and many others. Miller also hired voice actor Dee Bradley Baker as the voice of the aliens. Tom Kenny and Baker had previously worked on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999).

Writing
The writing was done by Pam Marsden. Lord and Miller had previously worked with Marsden on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a film based on the book of the same name by Judi & Ron Barett. Marsden described the film to be one of her favorite works with people she had previously worked with a long time ago.

Ratings
The movie has been rated G for...

Action-Family
10/10, the movie has several action scenes which also have family-friendly moments.

Funny Humor
7/10, the movie has some humor scenes.

Release Dates

 * June 10, 2024 (United States), (Theaters)
 * August 29, 2024 (Home Media)
 * September 2, 2024 (DVD)

Marketing
The film had two McDonalds’ happy meal toys to promote the film. It also had a 2023 Comic-Con teaser trailer to also promote the film along with two Nickelodeon commericals showing the 2023 Comic-Con trailer. However, several toys were made by the company, Toys “R” Us.

Critical Response
Just like the first film, it has also received many more positive reviews. It has gotten a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7/10 on IMDb, and TBD on WikiViews.