Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving

**Green Eggs and Ham : The Second Serving** is an American traditionally-animated spy comedy adventure film produced by Amblimation and based on the 1984 Dr. Seuss book, *The Butter Battle Book.* It stars the voices of Adam DeVine, Michael Douglas, Patricia Clarkson, Rob Brydon , Diane Keaton, Rita Moreno, Héctor Elizondo, Darren Criss and Ilana Glazer, and is narrated by Keegan-Michael Key.

*Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving* was theatrically released on February 8, 2022, by Universal Pictures. Like its predecessor, the film received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised it for its animation, visuals, writing, direction and vocal performances (particularly DeVine and Douglas), though it received criticism for its runtime.

## Plot

A spy (later revealed to be Pam-I-Am) breaks into a secret lair and steals the Moo-Lacka-Moo, a precious orb-like object. Meanwhile, Sam continues to make plans to find his mother in East Flubria. Overseas, it is learned that the nations of Yookia and Zookia are at war with one another. Guy and Michellee are revealed to have been married, with the former having built an Inventitorium shop and cannot find the time to travel with Sam. However, on opening day, the shop explodes with Gluntz convinced that it was sabotage. Michellee tells Guy to go with Sam so that he is not so stressed and E.B. also joins them. Upon arrival in East Flubria, Sam, Guy and E.B. arrive at the factory where they produce green eggs.

They manage to get an address, though it is written in chicken scratch due to the employees all being chickens but manage to find the house. The house is occupied by a tiny old lady, but Sam recognizes that it is indeed the childhood home where he once lived. As they are about to leave defeated at a dead end, Sam witnesses a briefcase getting swapped and tries to return it, only to encounter two spies fighting over it. The briefcase contains the Moo-Lacka-Moo and as one of the spies takes off with it refers to the other spy as Pam-I-Am; Sam's mother. Pam protects Sam, Guy and E.B. from Zookian goons and make their escape with the help of her partner Sylvester. Despite Sam wanting to bond with her, it is apparent that Pam, while caring, has no time to act motherly.

They arrive at a small Robababobrian village where Pam keeps some of her spy equipment. Sam excitedly tries to have her make green eggs and ham or tell a story to him, but she is not in the mood. E.B. begins to admire her, flummoxing Guy who tries to tell Sam that Pam does not have any interest in being a mother at the moment, but he refuses to listen. In the morning, Pam gets the group to leave via a stampede of Camelopes (camel antelope hybrids) and they make it to the port of Ta-Gong. Sam comes to finally realize that Pam has no time for him and she tells him that she will meet up with him in Glurfsburg someday. As Guy and E.B. get on the boat back home, Sam declares that he is staying to help his mom. Before Guy and E.B. can do anything about it, two Zookian goons bag them.

Guy and E.B. find themselves being interrogated by Hayzel and Jeremy of Zookia. Meanwhile, Pam chases after her rival Philip Trousers, who has the Moo-Lacka-Moo, via boat, only to discover that Sam has stowed away. Once Hayzel realizes that everything Guy and E.B. told her was true, she explains that Yookia is evil and that Zookia is a good nation due to how they butter their toast: butter side down. Every time Sam and Pam get close, Sam's ineptitude causes them to lose Trousers. Guy and E.B. are given a tour of Zookia and while E.B. is impressed, Guy just wants to return home. When Hayzel learns that Guy is an inventor, she takes them to Zookia Institute of Technology (Z.I.T.). Pam leaves Sam on a buoy with a flare gun; leaving him to finally realize that she does not want him around. Guy excitedly designs an "anti-weapon"; impressing the Dookess of Zookia who offers to hire Guy who reluctantly agrees.

Pam catches up to Trousers, but her boat is suddenly destroyed and about to be eaten by Dolphacudas (dolphin barracuda hybrids). However, Sam rescues Pam using the flair gun and she agrees to let him join her on her mission. The two spot Trousers, along with Marilyn Blouse and tail them to a party. Meanwhile, E.B. asks Guy if she can explore Zookia and Guy agrees, tells her to stay away from the wall, and gives her a funpass, an object that directs people to the next best thing, somewhere over the wall. After exploring, E.B. spots a Squail (squirrel quail hybrids), who takes her funpass. Despite Pam's reluctance, Sam uses the disguise of Dr. Lydia Schwartz to get them in (the name taker's marriage was saved by her). E.B. chases the Squail up the wall before she gets her funpass back and meets boy named Looka. The two then become friends.

As Sam and Pam try to find a secret passageway, Sam accidently presses the button which turns the floor into stairs. When E.B. discovers that Looka is from Yookia, she quietly leaves. Sam and Pam find Trousers and Blouse in a secret lab under the party and a fight breaks out. While Trousers and Blouse escape, Sam manages to retrieve the Moo-Lacka-Moo, which impresses Pam. However, it turns out to be a heat-absorbing substance called Goo-Lacka-Goo and the two escape from the party from getting absorbed. After hearing an overjoyed Guy explain how they will be staying longer and badmouthing the Yooks, E.B. becomes curious and decides to go climb the wall at night. It turns out to be a heat-absorbing substance called Goo-Lacka-Goo and Sam and Pam escape from the party from getting absorbed. As E.B climbs the wall, she gets caught by the guards.

While Sam and Pam use a cloaking device and Guy closes the door without being interrupted, the narrator decides to give some focus to E.B. who manages to evade the guards and runs into Looka again. Looka, knowing that E.B. is from Glurfsburg, but thinking that she is visiting Yookia, shows her around the city. To her surprise, Yookia looks just like Zookia in every way, right down to the Aquatic Center waterpark being lavish (she was told that it was a dirty hole filled with water earlier in the movie). The narrator cuts to Michellee, who is still at Glurfsburg before the narrator cuts back to E.B. and Looka. After having fun at the waterpark, E.B. is relieved to learn that Looka also does not believe that the other side is so bad and venture into an abandoned part of the museum where they learn that Yookia and Zookia were once one nation called Ookia that was split after the Dooka and Dookess argued over how to butter their toast.

The narrator cuts to Michellee again, who is shopping for food and getting a checkup. Looka takes E.B. to his house where he reveals that he is the son of the Dooka, who is inattentive to him. E.B. solemnly reveals that she came from Zookia; forcing Looka to hurriedly take her back to the wall before they seal it off. They promise to see each other again. Back in Glurfsburg, the narrator is shocked to learn that Michellee is pregnant as she sends a message to Guy who is preoccupied at the moment. E.B. makes it back to the house, but realizes that she left her funpass.

Elsewhere, Sam and Pam chase Trousers to the Keela-Kee Trapezoid where ships have mysteriously vanished. Upon landing, Trousers loses the Moo-Lacka-Moo to Kangarangutans (kangaroo orangutan hybrids). Meanwhile, Guy gets Michellee's message and asks to work full time, made better when the Dookess learns that Michellee is a painter and hires her too. Sam and Pam encounter an islander named Bo who reveals that the deeper into the island you go, the younger you become. As the two venture deeper, it becomes evident that Pam neglected her priorities with Sam. As he becomes an baby, Pam protects him from the Kangarangutans, who empathetically relate to her and give her the Moo-Lacka-Moo. Trousers catches up and as they escape the island, Pam and Sam hastily experience the times they should have had growing up. Trousers is accosted by Crocopotamuses (crocodile hippopotamus hybrids). Believing that Guy and E.B. have been kidnapped, Bo gives Sam and Pam a boat to escape the island.

Back at Zookia, Guy calls Michellee and tells her that Zookia is a great place. The Zook guards find E.B.'s funpass for Guy .Guy returns to the house and confronts E.B. about the funpass and while making E.B. lunch as Guy learns what she has been up to. Despite her attempts to explain the Yooks to Guy, he forbids her from seeing Looka again. In Yookia, Looka attempts to do the same with his father, but he also forbids him from seeing E.B. again. Meanwhile, Sam and Pam head to Zookia to save Guy and E.B. Guy reveals where Looka was supposed to meet with E.B. and has him captured, much to E.B.'s anger who refuses to speak with him now. A very delighted Sam and Pam "rescue" the two of them and takes them to their safehouse for a sleepover. Guy reveals that Michellee is having a baby, but E.B. is still angry with him, even when Sam attempts to get her to make up with him.

Guy becomes suspicious of Pam when she fails to remember how the Yooks and Zooks butter their toast and becomes convinced that her mission to return the Moo-Lacka-Moo to the Yooks is for selfish reasons. He tells Sam this who appears convinced after he realizes that she still has not made green eggs and ham for him. At night, Guy tries to convince E.B. that they should leave with Sam, but she rebuffs him. Sam takes the Moo-Lacka-Moo and wakes up Pam as they leave to deliver it to the Yooks.

Guy and E.B. discover that Sam and Pam have fled with the Moo-Lacka-Moo. They are immediately found by Blouse, Trousers and the Zooks who take them back to the city. As Guy gets back to work, he sadly discovers that the Zooks intentionally want his inventions to explode and urge him to continue working when Michellee arrives. He manages to assure her. Meanwhile, Sam and Pam deliver the Moo-Lacka-Moo to the Dooka and are rewarded. Michellee goes talks to E.B., but is not in the mood to talk right now. She manages to go save Looka from jail. Pam takes Sam to her lavish spy apartment and finally makes him green eggs and ham, much to his pleasure.

Michellee goes to talk to Guy that he has been a great provider. When Sam tastes green eggs and ham, he likes the way Pam makes. Guy discovers that E.B. snuck out of the house again to rescue Looka. Guy surprisingly helps her and she frees Looka who is well aware that his imprisonment was not her fault. Sam is shocked to discover that the Yooks plan to use the Moo-Lacka-Moo on the Zooks and demands they go back. However, Pam, not wanting to give up Sam again because of her spy life, tries to tell him that they are safer together and away from them. Sam disagrees and leaves to rescue his friends. At the same time, Pam is given her next mission which is to take out Sam.

As Sam hurries to Yookia to reclaim the Moo-Lacka-Moo, Guy explains to Michellee what is happening, but they are quickly caught by the Dookess. He convinces her to let Michellee stay with him because she is his "secret weapon". E.B. and Looka, who are now slightly identifying as boyfriend and girlfriend, go to the Dooka to inform him of what is happening. Sam heads to Yookia while Pam heads to Zookia. Guy dismantles his invention while Michellee distracts Guy's watcher with a painting and then fake labor. The Dooka sends Looka and E.B. to Looka's room and insists on using the Moo-Lacka-Moo to destroy Zookia. Michellee keeps fake laboring before getting rid of Guy's watcher quickly. Sam goes climbing through the vents and rescues E.B. and Looka before being told where the Moo-Lacka-Moo is being held. E.B. and Looka go to rescue their respective side's people and promise to meet each other later. As Sam finally gets the Moo-Lacka-Moo, he is suddenly confronted by Trousers.

Pam is revealed to have headed to Zookia and confronts Guy and Michellee. Guy and Pam both realize that they are both dismantling the bomb when Michellee suddenly goes into  real labor (she faked it earlier so Guy could dismantle his weapon). Sam and Trousers fight over the Moo-Lacka-Moo, but they lose it. Guy, Michellee and Pam are confronted by the Dookess and her guards whom Pam and Michellee fight off. Guy tries to take the bomb apart, but the Dookess prepares it to be launched. The Moo-Lacka-Moo ends up in the hands of the Dooka who attaches it to his missile to launch. E.B. and Looka manage to get their respective sides to hide underground.

As soon as the Dookess sees the missile, she speeds up the launch. Both bombs fire off with Sam and Pam riding both of them. They meet halfway as the bombs collide and blow up in the sky. Pam uses the Goo-Lacka-Goo to contain the combined explosions with only the wall getting destroyed. Trousers gets caught in the goo and Blouse blows him away. E.B. and Looka meet and create a butter sandwich for everyone to see. The Dooka and Dookess reluctantly share it to the delight of everyone, and they become Ookia again. Gluntz arrives, revealing that the conflict was started by cows in order to raise the profit margins of the butter industry for "the 2%", though no one believes her except the Dooka and Dookess, who take them into "custardy". Michellee gives birth to a baby boy named Guy Jr (he looks like Guy hence the name). Everyone returns to Glurfsburg with E.B. keeping a long-distance relationship with Looka, Guy's inventions finally stop exploding thanks to some Goo-Lacka-Goo Pam gave him, and Sam makes green eggs and ham for Pam at home.

## Cast

* Adam DeVine as Sam, a happy-go-lucky enthusiast of green eggs and ham.
* Michael Douglas as Guy, a cantankerous inventor who dislikes green eggs and ham.
* Keegan-Michael Key as Narrator
* Ilana Glazer as E.B., a good-hearted girl and Michellee’s daughter.
* Jillian Bell as Gluntz and Hayzel, a perky (but also tough-as-nails) Zookian guard, who captures Guy and E.B. and interrogates the two
* Diane Keaton as Michellee, the overprotective mother of E.B.

* Patricia Clarkson as Pam-I-Am, Sam's mother and an international super spy working for Yookia to retrieve a dangerous substance known as the Moo-Lacka-Moo
* José Andrés as Sylvester, a super spy who works alongside Pam and Yookia. He lives with his wife Hester, five children named Lester, and their gerbil Allan.
* Rob Brydon as Philip Trousers, Pam's vain yet unintelligent super spy arch-rival who is working for Zookia to retrieve the Moo-Lacka-Moo
	+ Brydon also voices Snalfred, Pam's elderly and stiff butler
* Gwendoline Christie as Marilyn Blouse, a beautiful and intelligent super spy who works with Philip Trousers and Zookia
* Rita Moreno as the Dookess of Zookia
* Héctor Elizondo as the Dooka of Yookia, Looka's father. Since this film is based on *The Butter Battle Book*, he's most likely based on character Chief Yookeroo.
* Darren Criss as Looka, the "Crown Dooka of Yookia, Chief Yookeroo, Order of the Unburnt Toast, Seventeenth of His Name", the son of the Dooka of Yookia, and E.B.'s love interest
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Gobo, Chief of the Robababobrians
* James Marsden as Bo, a maroonee trapped within the Keela-Kee Trapezoid, where he stays in one place to stay in his perfect age
* Marques Ray as Guy Watcher, a Zookian hired by the Dookess to watch over Guy and his inventing.