As traditionally in the films of the James Bond series, the animated film “Die Gangster Gang 2” by Pierre Perifel begins with a so-called “Cold Open”-a scene that gets into the action immediately: In Cairo, Mr. Wolf (voice: Sam Rockwell) and his walking of gangster animals into the villa of an Egyptian businessman, stealing a sports car and burgating over the Reduced marketplace of the city, a police cohort on the back of the neck.
The chase continues over the roofs of the city, until the gang finally turns a police block from motorcycles by steering the car on wooden planks over a river and, there-directed by the technology-promoted gangster-training Tarantula (Awkwafina)-led to the other bank with a magnetic crane again. For the car, Mr. Wolf actually has no use, the campaign is only a finger exercise for him: “Robby is never just about the prey. It is a demonstration of power.”
Mr. Wolf & Co. do not have to hide from George Clooney, Brad Pitt & Co. in front of the “Ocean's Eleven” crew.
Stunts and action scenes, for which it needs an immense effort in feature films, can be implemented with the means of animation more directly: This already benefited the first film adaptation of the Graphic Novel series “Evil Jungs”, in which Perifel was maneuvered by a gang of those who are willing to burglish Light, fast joke did not need to hide from Steven Soderbergh's “Ocean's” films. The film was an allegational homage to numerous Heist films, which he also visually quoted in a cut and camera work, with frozen still pictures and slow motion.
At the end of the film, the gangster gang was forced to make good expression to make a bad game and became the law. There, “The Gangster Gang 2” immediately starts again immediately. In a stuttering knuckle mill, Mr. Wolf drives to an interview that is again unsuccessful: How should you also explain to a bank that you could hand over a suitable employee if you wanted to rob the corresponding branch yourself recently?
First wrestling, then space
His former spit journeyman Mr. Shark (Craig Robinson) and Mr. Piranha (Anthony Ramos) are hardly better. Only the strange deep -relaxed Mr. Snake (Marc Maron) seems to be more relaxed: Instead of trying to acquire a respectable, he spends his days with yoga and pottery, sips Kombucha and hears Sabrina Carpenter. He got to know the witty Elster Susan (Natasha Lyonne) and, together with her, dearly indulges in the idle how to look at his former work colleagues – at least until a series of burglary suddenly welds them back together.
According to the dazzling model, the gangster gang are stolen in numerous, quickly completed raids, all of which seem to seem to seem to seem to shine together: they contain macGuffinit, a material that forms a magnetic atomic counterpoint to gold and automatically attracts it. Nobody is as much suitable to catch gangsters as gangsters themselves, they may have become so righteous: their investigations lead the animal gang from a Mexican wrestling event, in which they have to fight as a fighting chicken to fight a trophy belt changing with MacGuffinite, right down to an elaborate showdown in space on an international space station.
Because a second gangster gang commits raids and pushes them into their shoes, the original gangster gang must also take action for better or bad.
From the spectacular and superhuman stunts of the “Mission: Impossible” films to space epenpes such as “Gravity” and “Interstellar” and the destruction excesses of the disaster cinema, the references of the sequel literally know no boundaries. As far as the style-proof staging of action sequences is concerned, the film does not have to hide from any real film franchise in recent years. After “The Wild Robot” and “Die Croods”, the DreamWorks production company with “Die Gangster Gang 2” will be strengthening their reputation for being the most creative and most original workshop for contemporary American animated films for several years.
Conclusion: “The Gangster Gang 2” is an extremely successful sequel that has countless allusions to classic action films and visually experienced animations. Pierre Perifel succeeds not only sending the animal gang into spectacular raids, but also in original settings such as a showdown in space – all without losing the charm and lightness of the predecessor. Dreamworks once again set standards in contemporary American animation cinema.