Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
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| Directed by | Luc Besson |
| Produced by | Luc Besson Emmanuel Prévost |
| Written by | Luc Besson Céline Garcia |
| Based on |
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard by Luc Besson |
| Starring |
Freddie Highmore Selena Gomez Mia Farrow Lou Reed Jimmy Fallon Ron Crawford Stacy Ferguson Snoop Dogg will.i.am Logan Miller Robert Stanton Penny Balfour Jean-Paul Rouve |
| Music by | Éric Serra |
| Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
| Edited by | Julien Rey |
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EuropaCorp (France) 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/The Weinstein Company (USA) Entertainment Film Distributors (UK) |
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93 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Budget |
€65 million ($90 million) shared with Arthur 3 |
| Box office | $78,520,547 |
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (French: Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard, also known in North America as Arthur and the Invisibles 2 or simply Arthur 2) is a 2009 English-language French animated/live-action feature film co-written, co-produced and directed by Luc Besson, based on his novel of the same title and starring Freddie Highmore and Mia Farrow. EuropaCorp produced the film, which is the second in Besson's Arthur series, following Arthur and the Invisibles. The film was panned by critics. It was a success in France but, due to its predecessor's failure at the American box office, was released direct-to-video in the United States. It performed disappointingly in the rest of the world. As a result, the film and its sequel, Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds, generated huge money losses for EuropaCorp.
In 1963, protagonist Arthur stays with his grandparents for the holidays, during which the Bogo Matassalai (a fictitious African society) assign Arthur a series of tests including camouflage and environmental nonviolence. Having passed these tests, Arthur prepares to see the Minimoys to celebrate, until his father decides to take him and his mother back to the metropolis. When a spider gives Arthur a grain of rice containing a distress-call, which he believes has come from the Minimoys, he returns to his grandparents' house, where the Bogo Matassalai's attempt to give him Minimoy stature through a telescope fails, and they instead wrap him in vines of increasing tightness until he falls in a drop of sap into the Minimoy Max's bar. En route to investigate the Minimoys' condition, Arthur and Max rescue Betameche, who leads Arthur to the King. He then learns that Selenia is held by Maltazard, who is inspired to invade the human world by increasing his own size. Maltazard tricks the Minimoys into completing this design. The telescope itself is destroyed in the process, leaving Arthur trapped at his Minimoy size.
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