MAD 2: The Movie

MAD 2: The Movie, or simply MAD 2, is a 2015 American 3D live-action/animated comedy fantasy-adventure film directed and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Kevin Shinnick. The film was based on Mad magazine, where each episode is a collection of short animated parodies of television shows, movies, games, celebrities, and other media using various types of animation (CGI, claymation, stopmotion, etc.) instead of the usual animation style that Warner Bros. Animation is known for.

Film Summary
After constantly being rejected for being too stingy, the cartoon characters try to be more violent to show that they are worthy of a show, even the preschool characters agree because of their hatred. Pursued by villains, mainly Petula Woolwright and Nigel, they escape the television and end up in the real world.

Plot
The movie begins with a series of the cartoon characters erased from existence by the businessman Pete McNugget and the creators by the giant, magic pencil. Five years later, the sole survivors, Alfred E. Neuman, Black Spy, Grey Spy, and White Spy, escaping from the fate, doing nothing. They decide to wander around the room, but are shocked to see other rooms disappearing. Soon, the whole living room starts fading away as well. This forces them to go through the fourth wall, and they end up at the Warner Bros. Studios. There they meet the whole MAD Crew, led by Pete McNugget. They are soon taken to meet their voice actors. All seems to go well, but a fight breaks out between the two parties, causing the characters to be kicked out of the studio. Meanwhile, Pete McNugget wants to desroys MAD heaquarters in the face of the earth with the power of his giant, magic pencil.

They soon head to San Pedro in California to find Michael and Aaron. They go to Michael's house, and his father welcomes them. At first, they have a great conversation, until the Titans argue with Michael's father, causing him to order his pets to fight back. Frightened, the Titans retreat quickly, before Michael's father shouts that he wants them to come back.

Meanwhile, while they're walking to Aaron's house, Alfred sees the parts of the deceased cartoon bodies, revealing Pete McNugget is actually working for Grey Spy, who actually plans to destroy the MAD headquarters, while Grey Spy and Pete became the antagonists forever. Shortly, the child transforms into a dinosaur; Robin claims that it's the power of make believe. The Titans confront the "dinosaur", but they are beaten.

With their very existence on the line, Alfred E. Neuman, Black Spy, and White Spy take drastic action to avoid oblivion. They head to a bread restaurant where a bunch of other children are sold into slavery by Grey Spy in a plan to destroy the MAD headquaters by carrying bombs, and they just so happen to stumble upon Michael and Aaron! But their good fortune is short lived, as they’re beleagured by their burdenous schedule and want nothing more to do with The show.

The Spies then set out to make the revival themselves, with the help of the show’s crew of course. They write a rather lousy script (mostly about Black Spy and White Spy fighting), but the episode is somehow how able to be produced nonetheless. Alfred and the spies is amused by their creation, but Pete tells them that it won’t fly with the audience and refuses to give them a do-over, still seeking the fortune. They consult Michael and Aaron again who mock thier failed attempt and tell them that make believe only becomes real if there’s actual quality to back it up.

Grey Spy plans to destroy the MAD Headquarters to control the world, having made numerous superhero films so that they would be too busy to stop him, before leaving a captured Alfred to die by setting of the tower ablaze. Thanks to his role, Alfred escapes the burning tower in the nick of time but after he resurfaces from the ocean, he can only watch he and his friends' home being destroyed. He then calls his friends back who gladly join to take out Grey Spy and Pete. While the Spies unmask him at the premiere of MAD: The Movie, Grey Spy unleashes the crystal's power and takes control of all the heroes who chase down the Titans. Alfred goes after Pete while the rest of the team leads off the heroes. Although this results their car getting crashed, Raven, after brought back to life, manages to teleport the brainwashed heroes into the universe where the Challengers Of the Unknown being sent to, causing the innocent Challengers to be attacked by those heroes.

Alfred then attempts to destroy the gem by tossing a bomb, only for Grey Spy to catch it and throw it away. Having no choice, Robin has to have a close combat with Grey Spy, but Grey Spy takes the advantage, and by damaging the rope of Alfred's grapple hook, manages to cause Alfred to fall into a place full of screens that soon play the movie about him. In the beginning, Alfred hopes to refrain himself from watching them. However, when the spies arrive and destroy the screens, Grey Spy has already used his new power to control Alfred by forcing him to watch his own movie and tells him to attack his friends. Superman and Batman try to stop her but to no avail as he violently kicks Batman (much to Superman's concern) and uses his staff to electrocute Wonder-Woman who screams in agony before tossing her away. As the four are being cornered, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj inserts the tape of their homemade movie to show himself the rest of it. At first, he still believes that they regard him as a joke, but when he sees how they credit him for bringing them together as a team and regard him as a true hero, Alfred comes to his senses and the team takes out Grey Spy together, defeating him and his giant robot with a remix of their song "Mad!" after Pete teased them about defeating himself with it. Grey Spy, who manages to use his remaining strength to get out from his destroyed robot, passes out after admitting that the Toons' rap is dope, and the characters all celebrate.

The creators prepare to accept their fate, as they fade along with the rest of sketches. But all hope wasn’t lost, as farts started to sound, and miraculously, the headquarters reappeared.

Original Characters and Voiced Cameos

 * Gilbert Gottfried as Crash, Linkong
 * Mikey Day as Spider-Man
 * Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Black Spy, and White Spy
 * Kevin Shinick as the Narrator, Announcer

Release
MAD: The Movie premiered at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, California on October 31, 2012, and was released in theaters on November 10, 2012.

Home Media
MAD: The Movie was released on Digital HD on April 2, 2013. It was released on DVD, Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray 3D on April 23, 2013.