Alt Name: | Muzzy 2 Muzzy Level II |
Director: | Richard Taylor |
Starring: | Jack May Willie Rushton Miriam Margolyes Susan Sheridan Derek Griffiths Benjamin Whitrow Peter Jones |
Theme Music Composer: | Peter Shade |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Company: | Richard Taylor Cartoon Films |
Network: | BBC |
Related: | Muzzy in Gondoland |
Muzzy Comes Back (also known as Muzzy 2 and Muzzy Level II) is a sequel to the animated direct-to-video film Muzzy in Gondoland, created by the BBC in 1989, as a way of teaching English as a second language. It has been adapted, using changed text in speaking and subtitles, for teaching other languages, such as German.[1]
Muzzy, the friendly metal and machine-eating extraterrestrial, returns for more adventures with his friends in the kingdom of Gondoland. Everyone expects him, and King Nigel and Queen Elza decide to arrange a ball for the christening of Bob and Sylvia's new baby daughter, Amanda. Meanwhile, Corvax, Nigel's former vizier and the villain of the previous film, who was demoted to a cook for failure to stop his computer from producing Sylvia clones, invents an invisibility device. With his assistant Thimbo "the Terrible", a thief on parole, he schemes to kidnap Amanda so he can get revenge on Bob for tricking him and taking Sylvia away from him.
Corvax and Thimbo succeed in kidnapping Amanda, and they get away on Nigel's yacht. However, Amanda sinks the boat by pulling the plug out of the hull. The three survive and enter Corvax's hideout: a small hut, which turns out to be Corvax's operations centre. Meanwhile, Muzzy, Nigel, Elza, Bob, and Sylvia follow Corvax's trail, recover Nigel's yacht, and track Corvax to his hideout.
In the hideout, Amanda gets hungry and wants to eat; while preparing the food, Thimbo lets the invisibility device loose; it is picked up by Amanda, who activates it. Corvax and Thimbo struggle to find Amanda. Muzzy, Nigel, Bob, Elza, and Sylvia enter the hideout and confront Corvax. Thimbo confesses to Nigel that the hut is an operations centre. Meanwhile, Amanda is found, but cannot be seen. Muzzy constructs another invisibility device and uses it to make Amanda visible. Everyone then goes back to the palace. In the end, Corvax and Thimbo ride with sheep to receive the unknown ultimate punishment offscreen (although it is accordingly known that, in Britain, this means 250 years in prison).