Antboy (Dietz) is more popular than ever. He and his friends Wilhelm (Graf) and Ida (Jensen) protect the city, while still finding time to enjoy being kids. But new threats are on the horizon. At school, a new boy named Christian (Hectores Brogger Andersen) wants to steal Ida away from Pelle. And school bullies Allan (Petersen) and Mark (Sorensen) take over the Gaemelkra home. While investigating, they both get bit by one of Gaemelkra's experiments and start to change, taking the moniker The Terror Twins.
Meanwhile, shy Maria (Juncher-Benzon) is a huge Antboy fan. After he saves her from bullies, she makes a move but is mocked by the other girls. Her father's latest experiment gives her the ability to become invisible. With her newfound ability, she vows revenge on Antboy and Pelle and seeks help from his foe the Flea (Bro). With the Terror Twins and the Red Fury causing trouble, can Pelle save his friends and the town?
After the success of 2013's Antboy, director Ask Hasselbalch reunited the team to bring a new Antboy story to the screen. The story is based on the comic Antboy by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen. Both the comics and film are in Danish.
Hasselbalch won the Robert Award for Best Children's Film (Robert Prisen for årets børne- og ungdomsfilm) in 2015 (he also won in 2014 for Antboy). The Robert Awards are awarded by the Danish Film Academy and are Denmark's equivalent to the Oscars.
Like it's predecessor, I watched this film on Netflix. The film is in Danish, but the Netflix version is dubbed in English, so the voices do not match the actors mouths do not match. Despite that, it is a well-made film. Hasselbalch keeps the story moving. You are immediately thrust into this world and the action continues from there. It is not necessary to watch the first film to understand the story, it helps, but the film does a quick refresher to the events of the first film. Once again it is a fun, mostly clean film that will appeal to a younger audience.
Oscar Dietz is good as Pelle, trying to find the balance between being a superhero and being a regular kid. Nicolas Bro doesn't have much to do here, just react to the main story and explain the changes of the twins. This time the main villain is filled by Astrid Juncher-Benzon's Maria. From the beginning, it is easy to empathize with her character while still understanding that she will become the villain of the piece. Marcuz Jess Petersen and Johannes Jeffries Sorensen are just the dumb muscle.
In 2016, they released a sequel: Antboy 3. This film is again directed by Hasselbalch, with a screenplay by Anders Olholm, and the main cast.
Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury [Antboy: Den Røde Furies hævn] (2014) 83 minutes
Director: Ask Hasselbalch
Starring: Oscar Dietz as Pelle / Antboy
Samuel Ting Graf as Wilhelm
Amalie Kruse Jensen as Ida
Astrid Juncher-Benzon as Maria / Den Rode Furie
Marcuz Jess Petersen as Allan / Terror Tvilling
Johannes Jeffries Sorensen as Mark / Terror Tvilling
Nicolas Bro as Gaemelkra / Loppen
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