Cartoon's Game II

Cartoon's Game II is a 2012 American live-action/animated slasher film and the direct sequel to Cartoon's Game, written by Jason Ward and directed by Joe Clark. It is the second installment in the Cartoon's Game franchise and set four years after the first film; the plot follows Robert Ingram (better known as Skinny) continuing his pursuit of the Cartoons, especially Gumball Watterson, as they were placed in an FBI research facility. The film stars Jason Grant as Daniel Frontman, Martha Grant as Sarah, and Jason Ward (the writer of the film) as Skinny, the killer skeleton.

Cartoon's Game II was released on October 29, 2012, and grossed $140.7 million on a $60 million budget. It was followed by the sequel Cartoon's Game 3 five years later in 2017.

Plot

Four years after the first film, the Halloween Corporation, which produces the Skeletoy Spooktacular models, recovers from the negative publicity, and reassembles Skinny to reassure its stockholders that there was never anything wrong with the toy. During the reassembly, a power surge from a machine electrocutes and subsequentially kills one of the assembly line works. Mr. Baha, the CEO of the company, order his assistant Johnson to cover up the death and to get rid of Skinny, unaware that the electric surge and awakened Skinny’s soul and because of that has now been revived.

Meanwhile, the Cartoons, not aged a bit for the last four years ago, have been under FBI investigation in Washington D.C. since the murders, Stacy having been placed in a mental hospital for backing up the Cartoons story about Skinny. Daniel Frontman is now an assistant at the FBI centre (after his wife Stacy called for a divorce) helping the Cartoons recover from the murders, which caused a severe case of PTSD. Nearby, a cocaine addict named Ricky Santora is being investigated for defending his act of smoking marijuana at a playground with kids nearby. Skinny discovers the Cartoon’s whereabouts by using Johnson’s car phone to call Julie Simpson, a manager at the FBI centre, before suffocating Johnson with a plastic bag.

Skinny breaks into the centre by smashing a window and destroying another Skeletoy named “Boney” and replacing it with himself. The Cartoons begin to become friends with Sarah, a worker at the FBI centre, who was accused of smashing a federal heirloom that Skinny smashed to destroy "Boney". That night, Skinny realises that in a new body he doesn’t have to possess the same person, so he ties up another cartoon named Gumball and reveals himself, but Sarah enters the room before Skinny can complete the voodoo chant to possess him. Sarah doesn’t believe Gumball’s assertions about Skinny while another FBI worker takes Skinny and throws him in the basement. Skinny realises that he is becoming human after suffering a nosebleed. The next day, Gumball and his brother Darwin are sent into a portal Daniel had constructed hours before and take them to school, Skinny secretly following them. Skinny scares everyone out the classroom as the teacher steps out, and Skinny kills him by beating him to death with a yardstick. Later, Gumball and Darwin try to warn the FBI workers about Skinny, but they refuse and consider putting them in solitary confinement.

That night, Gumball sneaks out of his room without anyone knowing to kill Skinny with an electric knife he found on the floor, but Skinny overpowers him by pulling him to the floor. When an FBI worker named Bill arrives to investigate the commotion, Skinny stabs him in the heel, causing Bill to fall and break his neck. Bill’s wife, Katie Lindsey, immediately orders all the Cartoons to go to solitary confinement a few miles away from the FBI centre. Sarah discovers “Boney” buried outside and realises that Gumball and Darwin were telling the truth all along. She rushes to warn Katie, only to discover that Skinny killed her by slicing her neck open. Skinny ambushes Sarah and forces her to the solitary confinement place. There, he pulls a fire alarm in order to clear the building and free the prisoners. He stabs Julie to death and forces Gumball to drive him to the Skeletoy factory (via a Grumman LLV) to perform the voodoo chant. Daniel catches up and creates a portal which leads to Cartoon Network City, him, Sarah, and the Cartoons chase Skinny and Gumball down the city and out to the factory, but they are unable to find them before Skinny knocks Gumball unconscious and completes the ritual.

However, the chant fails as Skinny has spent too much time in his skeleton body and is now permanently trapped. Angry, Skinny chases Daniel, Sarah, and the Cartoons through the factory, intending to kill all of them. Sarah slams a gate shut on Skinny hand, which Skinny breaks off and replaces with a makeshift blade from a knife. After Skinny murders a technician by slashing his throat open, the group manage to trap him in a giant assembly line machine that mutilates his body, appearing to kill him for good. However, Skinny manages to escape the machine by cutting off his own legs and attacks again, knocking out Daniel and Sarah. Gumball and the rest of the Cartoons can defeat him a second time by opening a valve, showering Skinny with a lethal amount of melted plastic. After saving both Daniel and Sarah from a conveyor belt, the group approach the half-melted Skinny, who suddenly attacks them again.

During the struggle, Daniel shoves a high-pressure air hose into Skinny’s mouth, inflating his head until it explodes, killing him. The group leave the factory, unsure of where to go but destined to keep going in life.