LazyTown 2: Trashy's Revenge

* Original Cut
* GOOD Edition

***LazyTown 2: Trashy's Revenge*** (Icelandic: ***Latibær 2: Hefnd Rusl***) is a 2019 Icelandic-American animated superhero comedy film directed by Aaron M. Thompson. It is the sequel to his previous film, *LazyTown: The Movie*. It centers on one of Robbie's previous minions, Trashy, aiming to get revenge on Sportacus for all the pain he's endured in the last film.

The film started production on November 13, 2017 and has been in Development Hell and back numerous times, and DBG almost cancelled the film at one point, until it was finally completed on April 5, 2019. A supercut of the film premiered on YouTube on February 21, 2020.

Upon completion, the film received mixed reviews, however, as time went on, the reception grew more negative. In order to make up for his project not being up to his standards, DBG created the first part of *LazyTown 2: The GOOD Edition* on August 9, 2019, but was cancelled in November 2020 for a lack of viewers and him losing interest in the project, plus DBG ended up hating this version more. Over time, this movie has gained a reputation of being "so bad, it's good." DBG initially despised this movie, but has since said that "it is a beautiful disaster-piece, it's garbage, but it is MY garbage, and in a odd way, i am proud of how terrible the film is."

A third film, *LazyTown 3: Mindgames*, started production on April 29, 2019, but was cancelled on July 13, 2020 due to lack of interest in favor of *Happy Wheels 3: Multi-Insanity*.

In 2021, DBG announced that he would try one last time to finish the LazyTown franchise, with *LazyTown II: The Rotten Chase*, which was to ignore the events of *Trashy's Revenge* and *MindGames.* As a result, Trashy's Revenge is no longer canon. However that too was quietly cancelled.

## Plot

In the lab of Robbie Rotten, Trashy, one of his minions, creates a formula that gives him extra strength so he can fight Sportacus, the hero of LazyTown, Iceland, once again. In the meantime, Robbie has broken out of jail. A fight between Sportacus and Trashy ensues in the streets of LazyTown, then eventually gets taken into a train. Then due to a petty fight over hot chocolate, two train drivers accidentally break the controls and cause the train to go at a speed of about 280 MPH. After pushing Trashy away from him, Sportacus pulls the emergency brake to stop the train, saving everybody on board, including Ms. Busybody, who was coming back from her vacation to Hawaii.

On his way back to LazyTown, Robbie encounters Trashy, who betrays his own creator due to his incompetence and goes to destroy Sportacus on his own. Robbie finds Sportacus in the street and accuses him of turning Trashy against him. The two engage in battle and in the end, Robbie runs away. In the meantime, Trashy throws cars with passengers inside around LazyTown and one almost crushes Stephanie and Ziggy in a diner. They decide to gear up as superheroes - Ziggy as Triple Cheese Hero and Stephanie as the Pink Speedster - to save the people of LazyTown. They meet up with Sportacus and the three go looking for Robbie.

Trashy flies a helicopter into Sportacus' airship and the two fight aboard the craft. Stephanie intervenes and gets Trashy off the airship. Trashy tosses his old suit, which he wore after he took the formula, and creates a new suit, as well as a new forumla, at Robbie's lab. His new powers prove to be destructive. Ziggy fights Trashy and with his super burp, Ziggy causes Trashy to vomit, which creates a minion for Trashy: a multi-colored skeleton called Remonica. She fights Ziggy and is stopped by Evil Stephanie (now with "95% less evil"), another of Robbie's minions.

Another fight between Trashy and Sportacus begins, with Stephanie joining in the fight. Then when Trashy attempts to throw a mailbox at Sportacus, Stingy stops him, being surprisingly strong, having claimed the mailbox to be his own according to his song, "The Mine Song". Sportacus and Robbie join forces to stop Trashy. They first disguise themselves as each other. While Robbie stalls Trashy, Sportacus consults Pixel about making an invention to dig a huge hole in the ground to push Trashy in after removing the potion from his body, then pouring concrete in that same hole while Trashy is inside to put an end to him. Eventually, Sportacus arrives so Robbie can keep Trashy still so the potion can be ejected from his body. Trashy is then taken to the hole and is covered in concrete.

After a scene of Robbie lamenting the loss of his creation, the film cuts to DBG, the creator of the film, berating himself for creating such a painful movie, but promises the audience that when he makes the third LazyTown movie, it will be even better. In a scene during the credits, Robbie looks to his old blueprints and finds one for a mind-control device and plans to finally be victorious against Sportacus.

## Characters

Sportacus - The hero of LazyTown

Trashy - Robbie's previous minion

Robbie Rotten - A lazy villain of LazyTown who eventually teams up with Sportacus to stop Trashy

Stephanie AKA The Pink Speedster

Ziggy AKA Triple Cheese Hero

Stingy

Milford Meanswell

Ms. Busybody

## Production

Production on the film started on November 13, 2017. There were many issues in making the film, such as delays and lack of creativity to make a clever story that allows for a longer runtime than 41 minutes. The film was in Development Hell and back many times and at a certain point, DBG considered cancelling the movie. However, the film continued and was finally completed on April 5, 2019.

## Reception

### Critical response

The reception for the film was initially mixed, however nowadays reception is mainly negative. Based on 25 assessments on the like-to-dislike ratio system, 40% of assessments were positive (10 likes and 15 dislikes).

DBG initially said about his creation, “This is my absolute least favorite movie I made, it’s TERRIBLE. If there were any good things about the movie, the animation and I guess the action scenes are better than the first... and maybe SOME of the humor works? ...Part 5 was okay I guess, but that doesn’t save the movie. Aside from those positives, this movie is a complete loss. The story is HORRIBLE, the writing is PAINFUL AND IT IS ABSOLUTE CRINGE AT TIMES. I am so glad that I am through with this piece of trash. (No pun intended)"

Adventure King 1000 commented, "Trashys revenge is trash cuz it's "Trash" ys revenge". TheNinjaGuy Studios comments, "Okay I think this movie is massively average and I totally understand why your call it a "disaster class" this movie was too short like HW was 7 minutes longer than this and that was made a year before this 4/10". Sammy Knight states at the end of his comment, “OVERALL: Geez, I don’t think words can describe this movie. It’s pretty bad, but it’s not one of the worst films I’ve seen. Oh well, I can at least hope that “Lazytown 2: The GOOD Edition” is actually GOOD. Overall rating: 3.6/10” Jackster Does Plotagon said this in his comment, “While not painful, this movie is still very unsatisfactory. SCORES: Story: 1/10. Animation: 9/10. Characters: 3/10 (I don't hate these characters, but the extremely short length is to blame here) Voice Acting: 4/10 (Generally, the TTS voice actors do fine, but there's the obvious voice change which couldn't be helped and to be fair, the material they were given to work with was awful) Music: 7/10 (The music is absolutely fine, but usage can be absent in a few of the earlier parts) OVERALL: 24/50 (4.8/10)” TheNinjaGuy Studios later updated his review, stating, “This, this, shouldn't exist. Now I completely understand your hatred for the movie. I mean, the beginning was \*OKAY\*, Later on in the film, it was like you completely gave up... My original score was 4/10 but now, I downgraded it to a 3.1/10. The film feels incredibly rushed, and you've made better movies than this garbage.”

Over time, the movie has earned the status of being "so bad, it's good". And DBG has since stated that he now enjoys the movie for how awful it is, and some others agree with him.

The supercut of the film premiered on YouTube on February 20, 2020

### Accolades

 Worst Director
 Worst Actor
 Worst Actress
 Worst Supporting Actor
 Worst Adapted Screenplay
 Worst Sequel

## Cancelled Follow-ups and Aftermath

### Cancelled Sequel (2018)

In early 2018, DBG had plans for a bunch of sequels to LazyTown 2, one of them, was called *LazyTown 3: Darkness Awakens*. Not many plot details are known about this version. It was cancelled later on in the same year.

### Cancelled Sequel (2019-2020)

Sometime in December 2018, DBG had thoughts of reviving LazyTown 3, but with a different plot, he was unsure of if he would go through with it, but he still stated that it was a possibility.

In early 2019, DBG announced the development of LazyTown 3: Mindgames, it was teased in the ending and mid credits scene of Trashy's Revenge.

On April 29, 2019, about three weeks after *LazyTown 2* was completed, DBG started production on the film. There were only 15 parts completed up until January 2020. Then finally, on July 13, 2020, the film was officially cancelled due to lowering view counts and DBG's preference of another film in production, *Happy Wheels 3: Multi-Insanity*. LazyTown 3 received a Supercut on October 14th 2020. In that Supercut’s comments contained an pinned comment by DBG Channel revealing the rest of the plot to LazyTown 3.

### Cancelled Franchise

Also in early 2018, DBG started to have thoughts of expanding the LazyTown franchise even further, along with LazyTown 3: Darkness Awakens, there was supposed to be *LazyTown 4: Sister Troubles. LazyTown 5, LazyTown 6,* *LazyTown 7,* and potentially even more sequels beyond that.

He also planned multiple spin offs, including a Sport-A-Trio movie (the Sport-A-Trio was briefly mentioned in Trashy's Revenge), a Pink Speedster & Triple Cheese Hero movie, a Trashy movie, potential prequel film trilogies for Sportacus and Robbie Rotten, a movie starring Pixel, called *Pixel: High Resolution,* And possibly a movie starring Evil Stephanie.

Around mid-late 2018, DBG cancelled all of these projects, mainly due to production problems of Trashy's Revenge, and him losing interest, but (As mentioned above) LazyTown 3 was later revived (and cancelled).

## Planned Alternate Cuts

### The GOOD Edition (2019)

On August 9, 2019, DBG started production on *LazyTown 2: The GOOD Edition*, which was an updated version of this "disaster-piece". This version of the film was cancelled in November 2020 due to the film failing to get interest from viewers and DBG losing interest in the project.

### The Final Cut (2021)

In late March 2021, DBG had thoughts about doing a re-edit of The GOOD Edition, which would increase the speed of the action, fix the problems that TGE didn't, and overall, try to make the film better.

However, in June 2021, DBG cancelled it, stating that it was stressing him out, and also, he found that it was pointless trying to fix the movie.