Malachi 2: The Rise of Evil

Malachi 2: The Rise of Red Ghost is an 2002 American animated animated comedy film based on the series, Malachi Universal, produced by Bear Bones Productions  and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the sequel to the 1992 film Malachi: The Movie and second installment of a projected trilogy. The film takes place tenyears after the first film, as it focuses on Malachi, Purple Guy, Takashi, Kally, Jenny and the rest of the gang going up against Red Ghost, whose plan is to take over the world. In order to stop Cabel, Malachi recruits his old friends, Lotta and Lioe.

Plot
10 years later, right after the events of Malachi: The Movie, Malachi and Purple Guy decides to go on the journey again when they saw Cabel kidnapped Kally on TV. They team up with Lotta and Red again. Malachi, Purple Guy, Lotta and Red later meets Nataly, a 9-year-old girl and Lioe, a 15-year-old boy who wanted to join with them.

Later, Cabel tells her red robots minions to track down Malachi, Purple, Lotta, Red, Lioe and Nataly, and she tells Barry to following them to capture Nataly. Meanwhile, Malachi, Purple, Lotta, Red, Lioe and Nataly find the place that look like a kingdom and a village, they never know about this place. When they enter the castle, they meet Princess Eloise, who is the ruler of this kingdom, and her lady-in-waiting Eugenia. Malachi tells Eloise about Cabel, she is nothing more than a bad princess. Princess Eloise joins Malachi and his friends, as well as Eugenia. When the kingdom was attack by Cabel's red robots minions, Malachi and his gang fight for it, including Barry and Cabel's giant robot. They then going on the adventure to stop Cabel, until they get some rest for tonight.

In Cabel's lair, she blame Barry and Cabel's red robots minions for failing to destroy Malachi, Purple, Lotta, Red, Lioe, Princess Eloise, and Eugenia, and capture Nataly. She also had a plans to destroy Tyrusville and renamed to Cabeltopia (like in the first film).

Kally breaks free and escapes Cabel's lair with the help of a young boy named Nick. Meanwhile, Malachi and his gang went to a science laboratory called Lab-Lab Technologies, while searching for Cabel. They met Dr. Robert Anderson and Ernest. Malachi cons them into using their magic to send them all to Cabel's lair, the spell works. When they sneak into Cabel's lair, they been caught by Cabel and learn that she plans to kill Malachi and his friends in her lair. Cabel's red robots minions had captured Nataly, Eloise, and Eugenia and sent them to prison.

Kally and Nick find a motel for the night, while they are escaping from Cabel's lair. Kally decides to call Malachi in her phone. Malachi and his friends are in danger, because Nataly, Eloise, and Genia were in jail. Kally and Nick needs to save Malachi and his friends, and team up with Daniel, Elijah, and Ryan. Meanwhile in jail, a heartbroken Nataly, who becomes scared after she captured. Eloise and Genia cheer her up. When they saw Kally, Nick, Daniel, Elijah, and Ryan, Nataly happy to see her friend, Nick. Kally, Nick, Daniel, Elijah, and Ryan and Nick are being heroes to save Malachi and his friends.

Back in Cabel's lair, she sets a bomb on Malachi, Purple, Lotta, and Red (minus Nataly, Eloise, and Genia) and Cabel tells them that the bomb is a timer and Cabel leaves the room. Then, Kally, Daniel, Elijah, Ryan, Eloise, Genia, Nataly, and Nick are here to save them, stop the timer and they escape from Cabel's lair. When Cabel got in the room, he saw Malachi and his friends were gone and the timer is stopped. She tells her red robots minions to get them.

Cast

 * Mala Miles as Malachi / Purple Guy / Lucas
 * Frank Welker as Takashi / Wyatt / Ratchet / Freddy / Popkies / Jake / Chewy / Scott Pig
 * Grey DeLisle as Jenny / Eugenia / Hilda Cat
 * Sean Schemmel as Lioe
 * Anndi McAfee as Lotta / Sarah
 * Lara Jill Miller as Nataly
 * Jennifer Hale as Princess Eloise
 * Mr. Lawrence as Little Guy
 * Jack Angel as Dr. Beanson
 * Tom Kenny as Green Bob
 * Jess Harnell as Edgar
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Cabel
 * Phil LaMarr as Barry
 * Tress MacNeillie as Arpeggio
 * Cathy Cavadini as Nevada
 * Russi Taylor as Lolly
 * Debi Derryberry as Lara
 * Susan Blu as Tiana
 * Tara Strong as Lola / Giana
 * Carolyn Lawrence as Ella
 * E.G. Daily as Kally / Zaria / Nick
 * Charlie Adler as Nate / Deshaun
 * Joe Alaskey as Daniel
 * David Kaufman as Ryan
 * Billy West as Cory
 * Candi Milo as Michael
 * Cree Summer as Kila
 * Kath Soucie as Tanya
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Gree

Development
Following the release of Malachi: The Movie in 1992, Sid John, the writer of the film, stated that a sequel is unlikely, despite the film's successful box office performance. He said "I think that we make a sequel of this movie."

On 1994, Mala Miles announced that the sequel to the 1992 film is in development and was slated for an unspecified 1998 release, titled as ''Malachi Tyrus: The Revenge of Tiana. ''The film would have focused on Malachi and his friends had heard that Tyrusville is in trouble, and it's because Tiana are taking over every cartoons universe. Malachi and his friends had to recruit other good characters from other cartoons universes and defeat Tiana and other evil cartoons characters before the invasion occurs. Mala initially stated "We will be releasing a Malachi Tyrus movie at the November of 1998, which will serve to start off or be one of our films that starts off our new animation effort." Originally slated as a direct-to-video film with a 1998 release, but Warner Bros. concluded this film did not count towards the '5 picture' contract when it was released in theaters.

Cast
The regular series main cast members returned.

Attached short film
A short animated film starring the characters of the Toon Friends franchise, Felix's Hangout, accompanied Malachi 2: The Rise of Red Ghost during its theatrical release.

Trailers

 * The teaser trailer for the film was released on February 18, 2001, and was attached to Spy Kids and Shrek.
 * Another teaser trailer was released in October 2001, and was later released with  Max Keeble's Big Move,  Monsters, Inc., Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
 * The first theatrical trailer was released in February 2002 and was shown with Big Fat Liar, The Rookie, and Ice Age.
 * The second theatrical trailer was released in May 2002 and was later shown before Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, The Journey to Adventures, Lilo & Stitch, Hey Arnold!: The Movie, Like Mike, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Stuart Little 2, The Gabriel Graza Movie and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
 * There were a few television spots for the film; the first one was released in March 2002, the second one was released in May 2002, and the third one was released in June 2002.

Marketing
Upon its release, Burger King had a promotional tie-in with seven toys with a paid Kids' Meal order. The film was backed by a large marketing campaign, with toys, books, games, clothes, and many other items becoming available throughout 2002. A video game based on the film has been released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PC, and Macintosh, as well as on mobile phones.

Home media
Malachi Tyrus: The Movie 2 was released on DVD and VHS on November 2, 2002 by Warner Home Video in United States and Universal Home Entertainment internationally. This release also includes a short film called. The film was also released on Game Boy Advance Video in December 2004 and on UMD for the Sony PSP. It was released on Blu-ray in North America on October 10, 2013, and on Blu-ray 3D on March 10, 2014. The film was released on May 25, 2019 on Blu-ray by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, coinciding with Malachi Universal 's 55th Anniversary. This release was later available individually on March 10, 2020, along with the rest of the Malachi Universal films, in a "septology" pack to promote Malachi: The Ultimate Time!. As of May 2019, the film, along with the rest of the Malachi Universal films are now available on Netflix, Crackle, Digital on iTunes, Movies Anywhere, Microsoft Store, Vudu and Amazon Prime.

Soundtrack
Main article: Malachi Tyrus: The Movie 2/Soundtrack

Cancelled Sequel
In addition to Malachi 2, Bear Bones had plans for a third film, tentatively titled Malachi 3: Evil Returns!. On July 3, 2005, Bear Bones stated that the third film was cancelled due to multiple problems with its story.