Cartoon's Game 3

Cartoon's Game 3 is a 2017 American live-action/animated slasher film, the sequel to Cartoon's Game II and the third installment in the Cartoon's Game film series. The film is written by Jason Ward and directed by Joe Clark, and stars Jason Grant, Martha Grant, Stuart Jackson, and Jason Ward. The plot follows the Cartoons as they are sent to a military academy to cope with the murders, but Skinny has found them and it's up to Daniel and Sarah to get them out of there quickly.

Cartoon's Game 3 was released on October 30, 2017 and grossed $196.2 million on a production budget of $83 million. It was followed by Cartoon's Game 4 in 2022.

Plot

Five years after Skinny’s second demise, the Halloween Corporation has once again recovered from the bad publicity and reputation of Skinny’s murder sprees and resume manufacturing Skeletoy models. The company also restores the factory, which was abandoned due to the murders. A splash of blood from Skinny’s melted corpse mixed in with the plastic used to make the models, reviving him in a new fresh body. Skinny is given to Halloween CEO Mr. Braha. Skinny teases, tortures and strangles him to death with a thin piece of wire, then uses Braha’s computer records to locate the Cartoons.

Still not aged since 2012, the Cartoons have been sent to Jacobs Military Academy in Chicago after failing to cope in any other place in America. Miss Brunchman, the school’s commandant, strongly urges the Cartoons to forget their “fantasies” about the model. The Cartoons befriend a lone Cartooner named Jack Robbie, an 8-year-old cadet they met whilst riding the bus to Jacobs. They also meet Arnold C. Mosley, a sadistic lieutenant colonel who relentlessly bullies the cadets, especially the Cartoons (nicknaming them 'flatties').

Robbie is asked to deliver a package to the Cartoons room. Robbie realizes that the package contains a skeletoy and takes it to the armory to open it, only to have Skinny burst free from the packaging. Skinny is incensed to find Robbie instead of Gumball but remembering he can possess the first person who learns his true identity, tells Robbie his secret. Before Skinny can enact the ritual, Brunchman interrupts them and confiscates the model, throwing him in the garbage truck. Skinny escapes by luring the driver into the truck’s compactor and crushing him to death.

That night, Skinny attacks the Cartoons and tells them his plans for taking over Robbie’s body instead of Gumball’s. Before they can fight back, Mosley comes in and takes the model from them. Gumball is then told to get the doll from Mosley’s room while he’s asleep, but he awakens and confronts Gumball, only to find Skinny has vanished. Suspecting the model was stolen, Mosley forces all the cadets to do exercises as punishment. Skinny attempts to possess Robbie again but are interrupted by two fellow female cadets. The three leave the room, leaving Skinny in the room. Brunchman enters a little later, suspecting she may have heard something but leaves in confusion. Skinny comes alive again and kills another soldier by making him suffer a fatal heart attack. The next morning, Gumball tries to tell Robbie that Skinny is evil, but Robbie refuses to believe him. Meanwhile, Skinny kills Mosley by slamming his head repetitively into a drawer.

Despite Mosley’s death, Brunchman orders the cadets to form a line in another classroom, but the cadets have had enough of her orders and attack her relentlessly, eventually the Cartoons get involved. Brunchman is chased out of the school but crashes her car into a brick wall after Skinny shoves a knife in her skull. The car explodes, killing Brunchman. Skinny orders the Cartoons over to where he is but Daniel and Sarah appear, the latter shooting Skinny in the leg. Daniel then drives a bus onto the school grounds, ordering everyone to get on board except the real people. Skinny goes after them by steal an oncoming car on the road. Skinny chases the bus and eventually starts stabbing its engines but he ends up crashing into a tree, the bus manages to escape the explosion.

That night, the group camp near a gas station. Daniel explains he was fired from the FBI center for ‘causing an issue’. Skinny finds a house to camp out at, an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of Chicago. The next morning, the group finds Skinny’s house by following a trail of blood left by his knife. Daniel orders Gumball, Darwin, and Anais to go in the house to find a piece of the buses’ engine that Skinny tore off. They go in with Roger Rabbit but are caught by Skinny when they do retrieve the piece, they escape on the skin of their teeth, but Roger gets killed by Skinny because he couldn’t run fast enough. Skinny chases after the bus on feet and gets on the roof, when he tries to get in, he has flung off the bus thanks to a FedEx truck. The group settles in a forest where they hope they will be safe, but Skinny finds them in another car he stole on the highway. The group gets chased through the forest where Skinny nearly kills another cartoon hanging out the window, but Sarah pulls him back in.

The bus and car arrive at a carnival where Skinny captures Robbie and forces him into a haunted house roller-coaster, where he will perform the chant, but Daniel and Sarah are right behind him. Skinny shoots Sarah in the leg, causing her to bleed out badly. Daniel goes after Skinny and Robbie who have made it on the top of a pile of fake skeletons. Skinny starts the chant, but Daniel shoots him in the left hand and stomach, causing him to fall off. Daniel tells Robbie to go, but Skinny appears again to attack Daniel. Daniel snaps Skinny’s other hand off and pushes him off, causing him to fall into an exposed bladed fan, killing him. Daniel is put into custody and the Cartoons are placed under FBI investigation. The cars leave as the carnival shuts down for good.