Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen

**Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen** is the second made-for-TV movie based on the Cartoon Network animated series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. It first aired on July 6, 2007, on Cartoon Network and was last shown on October 8, 2017, for the network's 25th anniversary. The film is a sequel to Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure.

## Plot

When Grim's past comes back to haunt him, Billy and Mandy are forced to join forces with their enemies to stop evil spiders from taking over the world.

## Why It Rocks

1. This is the second movie from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy franchise, and it’s actually also good, considering this takes also place during season 6.
2. The characters, like the Grim Reaper, Irwin, Billy's dad Harold, Principal Goodvibes, Eris, and Jeff the Spider are likable here. Billy and Mandy are also likable here, being their normal, charming and hilarious selves before they got flanderized.
3. The voice acting is still amazing.
4. The animation is awesome and it’s slightly better than the TV show and the previous film.
5. Many hilarious moments, like Grim’s jokes about the grave, and using the title of the movie, as well as Billy talking to the milk cartons.
6. The most hilarious moment is when the show just says that it got old (aka that it went downhill).
	* **Eleanor Butterbean: Billy, the Grim Reaper was pretty neat the first 5 or 6 times you've brought it to class, but the magic sort of worn off.**
7. Creative and spooky plot where a spider army is taking over and the main cast has to work together to stop them, as well as save Grim from the leader.
8. Good brief cameo of the Betty Bop cartoon, Bimbo's Initation.
9. The fight scenes between the main cast and the spiders was awesome and intense.
10. The new character, Velma Green the Spider Queen, is a pretty likable villain, being the childhood friend and crush of Grim, having a spooky spider army, and wants vengeance on Grim for cheating his way to becoming Reaper, which is understandable.
11. Grim, however, isn’t the cheater she thought he was, as he actually stopped Boogey, who was the real cheater, and the votes he put in were for Velma, thinking she deserves to win. He also gives Boogey his comeuppance for his cheating ways, but thanks to impressing everyone during that moment, he ended up winning anyways, but he still tried to get Velma to win.
12. After Velma sees the truth, she apologizes to Grim for her behavior and they repair their friendship.
13. Billy and Mandy are also likable because they cared about their friends, and have some great moments, like when Mandy worked together with Mindy, despite being her enemy, to defeat the spiders, and when Billy apologized to Jeff for his behavior and they make up in the end.
14. The wedding scene and being called off was pretty funny.
15. The ending was spooky as Velma decided to take over the world with her spiders.
16. The credits scene where Billy hangs out with Jeff was good, heartwarming and funny.

## Bad Qualities

1. Like the TV show, there is excessive amounts of gross-out and toilet humors alike.
2. There are some pretty mean-spirited, annoying, dumb, juvenile, and corny moments, like when Billy snaps at Jeff and it hurts Jeff (they did make up in the end), and when Billy got tortured by the big cow spider.
3. Some unlikable characters in the movie like Mindy, Sperg and the Boogeyman. Mindy is the least unlikable though because she did work together with Mandy to defeat the spiders.
4. The next episode of the TV show, "Dracula Must Die!", had a very lack of continuity and consistency to this movie, as Velma took over the world with her spiders at the end of this movie, but then "Dracula Must Die!" shows the world is fine and is spider-free.

## Reception

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, audiences and fans of the franchise. It got a 7.5/10 on IMDb.com, making it the highest rated movie in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy franchise.

## Trivia

* The expiration date on the chocolate milk carton is also the birth date of creator Maxwell Atoms.
* This is the only film in the franchise without Fred Fredburger.

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