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Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (also known simply as Peter Rabbit 2) is a 2021 3D adventure comedy film directed and produced by Will Gluck, who co-wrote the screenplay with Patrick Burleigh. The film is a sequel to 2018's Peter Rabbit produced by Sony Pictures Animation, and is based on the stories of Peter Rabbit created by Beatrix Potter. James Corden reprises his role as the title character, alongside Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, and David Oyelowo in live-action roles, and the voices of Elizabeth Debicki, Lennie James, and Margot Robbie.

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Theatrical release poster with its previous release date
Directed by	Will Gluck
Written by	Will Gluck Patrick Burleigh
Based on	The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Produced by	Will Gluck Zareh Nalbandian Catherine Bishop Jodi Hildebrand
Starring	Rose Byrne Domhnall Gleeson David Oyelowo Elizabeth Debicki Lennie James Margot Robbie James Corden
Cinematography	Peter Menzies Jr.
Edited by	Matt Villa
Music by	Dominic Lewis
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Animal Logic MRC[1] 2.0 Entertainment Olive Bridge Entertainment
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates	March 25, 2021 (2021-03-25) (Australia) May 17, 2021 (2021-05-17) (United Kingdom) June 11, 2021 (2021-06-11) (United States)
Running time	93 minutes[2]
Countries	Australia United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	$45 million[3][4]
Box office	$154 million[4][5]

After facing numerous delays from its original February 2020 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label, first in Australia on March 25, 2021, then in the United Kingdom on May 17 and in the United States on June 11. The film has grossed over $154 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the voice performances but criticized the deviations from the source material.

Plot

Thomas and Bea are about to get married, with all their friends, human and animal, attending. Peter tells Benjamin that he is totally fine with Thomas marrying Bea, until the priest mentions Thomas becoming like a father to the animals. Peter imagines going berserk and attacking Thomas, leading the other animals to attack the humans until Peter makes Thomas float away on balloons. After Peter snaps out of his fantasy, he still accepts this new part of his life.

After their honeymoon, Thomas helps Bea as she works on her children’s storybooks based on Peter and his friends. Peter is a bit dismayed to know that the books have portrayed him as “naughty”. Outside, he talks to Johnny Town-Mouse who talks about his life as a married mouse with kids, and Peter does not want to think about Thomas and Bea starting their own family without him. Bea then gets a letter in the mail from a publisher who wants to distribute her books.

Thomas and Bea take Peter, Benjamin, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail to meet the publisher, Nigel Basil-Jones. The other rabbits, barring a suspicious Cottontail, seem to like Nigel, until he presents his marketing plan toward the rabbits, which paints Peter as a troublemaker. They even see a billboard for a potential Peter Rabbit movie, which makes him look outright villainous.

A dismayed Peter walks away from the group and goes into town, where he meets an older rabbit named Barnabas. After getting into some more mischief, Barnabas recognizes Peter as the son of his old friend when they would swipe food from the McGregor farm. He is impressed with Peter’s movements and skills, but they are unfortunately caught by animal catchers and taken to a pet pound and taken in by a little girl named Amelia. After an afternoon spent being washed and roughly played with, the family steps out of the house, leaving Peter and Barnabas in a cage. Barnabas manages to free himself and Peter, so they go to raid the family’s fridge with the helps of Barnabas’s crew – the mouse Samuel Whiskers, creepy cat Tom Kitten, and his sister Mittens. As they try to sneak the food out, Amelia’s mother comes home with the intention of getting rid of the rabbits before her kids come home. The animals manage to run from her as she chases them into town, and they get away with their food into their hideout. Barnabas later takes Peter through the town as he talks about how his father used to steal for Peter and his sisters to keep their bellies full. Thomas and Bea then find Peter and bring him home while Barnabas returns to his hideout. The next morning, Peter tells Benjamin about Barnabas and convinces him and his sisters to join him in meeting the crew. Barnabas recognizes Peter’s sisters and divulges to all of them his big plan – he and his crew want to rob from the farmers market, with their big score being packs of dried fruit.

Thomas and Bea meet with Nigel again to go over designs for the rabbits. After already having them dressed up in contemporary clothes (one that says “hype beast”), Nigel makes another suggestion that they be on a beach, despite Thomas disagreeing with the idea. He starts to realize that Nigel’s idea are not in the best interests of Bea’s work. He even later goes to confront Nigel himself in a boxing gym to express how he feels, with Nigel interpreting it as him speaking for Bea. She finds out and is unhappy with Thomas.

The rabbits gather help from their animal friends to pull off their heist. The animals create distractions, even getting a girl named Sara Nakamoto – whose family creates the dried fruit – distracted when the boy she has a crush on (whose family sells cheese wheels) is knocked over. The rabbits prepare the bins of dried fruit, but in the chaos, a cheese wheel rolls by and knocks over Thomas and his tomatoes that he was going to sell. After getting the dried fruits into their getaway truck, all the animals, including Benjamin and the sisters, are captured by the pet pound people. To Peter’s dismay, Barnabas reveals he was all along using him and his friends to keep the dried fruit for themselves. He even explains that he intentionally “bumped into” Peter in town after reading about him in his book, having spent a lot of time feeling angry that nobody wanted him because he was too old. Everyone is left to blame Peter for getting them into this mess, while he himself feels utterly terrible.

Peter leaves Barnabas and his gang and goes to find Thomas, enlisting his help in recovering his friends. After hitting a snag with their truck, they go to Bea for help while she is in a meeting with Nigel and others from the publishing company. They want to put Peter and his friends in a ludicrous space adventure, which pushes Bea to realize that this is nothing like what she had in mind, and she pulls her stories from Nigel’s company. After talking it out with Thomas, she agrees to help him and Peter recover all their friends while going on over-the-top missions to find them

Peter, Benjamin, and the sisters then make one last stop at Barnabas’s hideout. They take the dried fruit away from them, only for the crew to appear and capture Peter’s family. They then turn the tables on them by having prepared for this, with the rabbits stringing up Barnabas and his crew by nooses so that they get pulled away when the nearby tailor shop owner leaves in his truck. The rabbits then return all the dried fruit to Sara and her family. The rabbits rejoin Thomas and Bea as they drive home, with Peter deciding to be more willing to listen to the ones that love him.

Cast

Live-action cast

• Rose Byrne as Bea
• Domhnall Gleeson as Thomas McGregor
• David Oyelowo as Nigel Basil-Jones

Voice cast

Production

In May 2018, it was announced that Sony Pictures had started the development of the sequel to Peter Rabbit.[6] In February 2019, it was announced David Oyelowo had joined the cast of the film, with Rose Byrne and Domnhall Gleeson reprising their roles from the first.[7] Elizabeth Debicki and Margot Robbie were confirmed to reprise their respective roles in October 2019.[8]

Unlike the first film, the sequel was not released under the Sony Pictures Animation label, though Columbia Pictures did return for distribution.

Filming

Principal photography began in January 2019 in Centennial Parklands, Australia.[9][10] Filming took place in the Lake District at Ambleside and Haverthwaite, around Hill Street and Richmond Bridge in London, Gloucester Docks, a replica of the House of the Tailor of Gloucester, and in Camden, New South Wales.[11]

Release

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway was theatrically released in Australia on March 25, 2021,[12] in the United Kingdom on May 17, and in the United States on June 11.

It was initially set to be released in the United States on February 7, 2020,[6] before being moved back to April 3, 2020, earlier in Australia on March 19, and in the United Kingdom on March 27.[13] The film was delayed again to August 7, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14] It was then further delayed to January 15, 2021, in the United States,[15] then to April 2,[16] and again to June 11.[17] The date was then moved up to May 14 before moving back again to July 2,[18] then moving up once more to June 18,[19] and then once again back to June 11, following the film's box office success outside of the United States.[20]

Home media

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway was released as a purchase on VOD on July 27, 2021, and was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray on August 24, 2021 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Reception

Box office

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway grossed $40.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $113.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $154 million.[4][5]

In the United States and Canada, Peter Rabbit 2 was released alongside In the Heights and The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 and was projected to gross $16–20 million from 3,346 theaters in its opening weekend, with Sony predicting a more modest $8–10 million debut.[21] The film made $4 million on its first day, including $900,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $10.1 million, finishing fourth behind A Quiet Place Part II, In the Heights, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.[22] The film fell 39.8% in its second weekend, grossing $6.1 million and finishing in third.[23] In its third weekend, the film fell 21.5% and grossed $4.8 million, finishing in fourth.[24]

In Australia, the film debuted to $2.1 million.[25] By its third weekend in the country (where it made $2.5 million), the film had a running total of $9.2 million.[26] In the UK, the film topped the charts in the first three days of cinemas reopening, making $6.4 million.[27][3]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 76 reviews with an average rating of 6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "An enjoyably silly and self-aware sequel, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway should leave fans of the original feeling fairly hoppy."[28] On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[29] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 74% of audience members gave it a positive score, with 45% saying they would definitely recommend it.[22]

Courtney Howard of Variety called it a "superior sequel" and said the film "serves as both a meta-commentary on his humbling past antics and a pivotal point for the eponymous protagonist."[30] Brian Penn of UK Film Review called it a "great popcorn movie" and said the "voicing actors are undoubtedly the stars even though the humans on screen are perfectly fine."[31]

Ian Freer of Empire rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing "It feels a little thin and generic compared to family fare like The Mitchells Vs The Machines, but the Byrne-Gleeson combo is winning and Gluck injects just enough slapstick and smarts to justify the last-gasp gag about a sequel. It's no Paddington 2, but Peter Rabbit 2 works well thanks to a mocking sense of self and a strong second half." However, he noted that "It [Peter Rabbit 2] may not be for the Beatrix Potter purists and has a scattershot quality", but that it "remains enjoyable for its brisk 93 minutes."[32] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, remarking that "Unlike Paddington, whose literary source material is genuinely funny, this digital Peter Rabbit is never really humorous. It can sometimes be cute or zany and briefly send itself up, but there is fundamentally something pretty straight in its DNA. And so the film rattles inoffensively on, every line and every image seeming as if it has been test marketed in ways advocated by the wicked Nigel Basil-Jones."[33] Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com also gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, who said "By indulging in the exact same instincts it insists are problematic artistically, “Peter Rabbit 2” wants to have its carrot and eat it, too. But maybe that won't bother you. Maybe you'll be grateful for a return to the theater and the opportunity to do so with your kids. In that regard, the sequel hops along in sufficiently bouncy fashion."[34]

Accolades

Award	Ceremony date	Category	Subject	Result	Ref
AACTA Awards	December 8, 2021	Best Adapted Screenplay	Patrick Burleigh	Nominated	[35]
			Will Gluck	Nominated
		Best Actress	Rose Byrne	Nominated
		Best Editing	Matt Villa	Nominated
		Best Sound	Robert Mackenzie	Nominated
			Kevin O'Connell	Nominated
			Ben Osmo	Nominated
			Andy Wright	Nominated
		Best Production Design	Roger Ford	Nominated
		Best Visual Effects or Animation	Jason Bath	Won
			Matt Middleton	Won
			Simon Pickard	Won
			Will Reichelt	Won
			Simon Whiteley	Won

Future

In May 2021, Will Gluck said he nearly completed the script for an untitled third Peter Rabbit movie.[36]

References

External links

• Official website
• Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

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[it] Peter Rabbit 2 - Un birbante in fuga

Peter Rabbit 2 - Un birbante in fuga (Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway) è un film del 2021 diretto da Will Gluck.

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[ru] Кролик Питер 2

«Кролик Питер 2» (англ. Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway) — американский комедийный фильм с совмещением живых актёров и анимации режиссера Уилла Глака. Фильм является продолжением фильма 2018 года «Кролик Питер» и основан на произведениях о «Кролике Питере», написанных Беатрис Поттер.

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