The Killer Bean 2: The Party

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## The Killer Bean 2: The Party

### Released

* August 8th, 2000 (IFILM)
* March 25th 2009 (YouTube)

## Credits

### Voice Cast

Jeff Lew

**The Killer Bean 2: The Party** (also known as **The Killer Bean 2.1 - The Party** when it was rereleased on Youtube) was a 7-min short released by Jeff Lew in 2000. It has over 5 million views on YouTube, and had over 1 million views on IFILM.

## Plot

The short starts with a group of beans having a party in a warehouse across the street where Killer Bean lives. The high volume bothers him, so he calls DJ Bean to turn down the volume. He refuses by turning up the volume, which infuriates Killer Bean and prompts him to go deal with the DJ himself. He drives to the warehouse, and fights the other beans, while DJ Bean escapes to the roof. After killing all the beans in the warehouse, Killer Bean chases the DJ to the rooftop. After Killer Bean finds the DJ, he demands that the DJ gives him the CD, but DJ refuses and fires shots at him. After a short fight Killer Bean kills DJ Bean and his flashback scene appears, with his final party and a scene of him taking a dump. Killer Bean then destroys the CD by shooting it, and goes back to sleep, only to be greeted with his alarm clock which he destroys.

## Official Description

"A 3-D, animated action flick about a coffee bean who doesn't take crap from anyone, The Killer Bean 2 is an amazing, amusing shoot-'em-up. A big house party spins out of control and wakes the wrong guy: He's one mean bean who has been pushed to the boiling point. This homage to John Woo's The Killers--with nonstop gunplay, choreographed fight scenes and Matrix-like special effects--took filmmaker Jeffrey Lew three years to create in his spare time on his home computer. We're guessing he drank a lot of coffee."

## Digital Remaster

After the initial release of The Killer Bean 2, according to Jeff, the video "had some poor texture quality problems", so he decided to upgrade the texture quality to a higher resolution (and video quality overall) and released it to download in three different versions: a standard version, a standard one but with Stereo sound and an Ultimate Edition which was released on DVD.

## Development

In 1997, after having created *The Interrogation*, Jeff Lew began working on the sequel to KB 1: The Interrogation. This sequel would be called "Killer Bean Forever". Jeff made the first Killer Bean short film to learn 3D animation. His goal in this second short film was to grow as a filmmaker. During the development, Killer Bean had been turned into a coffee bean with guns of gold. Jeff felt it suited his personality better, also during development the name was changed to "The Killer Bean 2: The Party". At the time, Jeff Lew had a full-time job as an animator, so it took him 3 years of late nights and weekends to complete the short.

In 1999, a trailer and a 39-second clip were released.

On August 8, 2000, the short was released for download. Later in September it got released on IFILM, gaining over 1 million views and was on the front page of the site. After having created his YouTube channel, Jeff would upload the short to YouTube in March 2009.

## Accolades

* In 2001, Ebert & Roeper reviewed The Killer Bean 2 on their "best of the web" show, and declared it had "one of the most enjoyable gun fight sequences in a long time."

* Won Ifilm's "Best Animation," and "Best Director of Animation" awards in 2000.

* Ranked #1 on Ifilm's "Top Ten Webfilms of 2000."

* Featured in an 8 page spread in issue #9 of 3D World Magazine.

* Killer Bean also graced the cover of issue #38.

* In issue #40 of 3D World Magazine, The Killer Bean 2 ranked #28 of the "50 Greatest 3D Projects Ever".

* In the June 2002 issue of Yahoo Internet Life, Killer Bean was listed under the Web's Funniest Sites for animation.

* The Killer Bean 2 was also mentioned in a short blurb in Entertainment Weekly.

* The Killer Bean 2 was featured in TechTV as the top action film and is a salute to John Woo and his cult-classic *The Killer*.

## Trivia

* The premise of this short and was reused for the opening sequence of Killer Bean Forever. Similarly, The Interrogation was also adapted by the movie.
* The short was made with Animation Master 7.1, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, ACID Pro 2, Adobe Premiere 4.2, Sound Forge XP 4.5 and most of the sound effects were taken from sounddogs.com
* Some bodies in the short disappear.
* The "bullet ripple" effect seen in the gunfight scene is a reference to The Matrix. Jeff would later go on to work on the VFX for *The Matrix: Reloaded.*Dance party!Motionless Bean.Killer Bean's famous pose.The last epic fight!The only occasion when a bean "bleeds".The second famous pose of Killer Bean.

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## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1vWnF9bS4&t
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20061022115145/http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/421953

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307057/
* https://www.sounddogs.com/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20020210180923/http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film\_info/0,3699,421953,00.html?ad\_ref=top\_twenty\_shorts\_online&cch=
* https://web.archive.org/web/20020124023208/http://www.3dworldmag.com/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20020202200036/http://pocketmovies.net/detail\_76.html