Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp is the 2024note sequel to the 2017 film Woody Woodpecker. Based on the character of the same name created by Walter Lantz, the film was directed by Jon Rosenbaum from a screenplay by Cory Edwards, Jim Martin & Stephen Mazur from a story by Mazur & Edwards and produced by Joy Kuyper. The film stars Chloe De Los Santos, Mary-Louise Parker & Josh Lawson with Kevin Michael Richardson, Tom Kenny & Eric Bauza as the voices of Buzz Buzzard, Wally Walrus and Woody Woodpecker respectively.
When Woody Woodpecker is kicked out of his home in the woods, he finds himself at Camp Woo Hoo where he makes himself at home, but ends up having to deal with longtime foes Buzz Buzzard, who wants to claim the gold buried somewhere in the camp, and Wally Walrus, who's an inspector threatening to shut down the camp due to its many violations. The film was released on Netflix on April 12th of that year.
Previews: Official Trailer
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- Animals Not to Scale: Woody is somewhat larger than an actual woodpecker, but still closer to his species in size than Buzz Buzzard, who towers above the humans.
- The Bus Came Back: After being Adapted Out of the first movie, Wally and Buzz make their return here. Chilly Willy is also referenced as a wood carving made by Woody.
- Butt-Monkey: Buzz's schemes hilariously backfire on him throughout the movie. Wally also gets a few moments, such as falling into poison ivy at one point.
- Camping Episode: The movie's main setting, with Hoo Rah, Woo Hoo's rivals leaning more towards the boot camp variety.
- Clothing Appendage: Along with Woody, who already got this treatment in the first film, Buzz's gloves are made out of feathers.
- The Comically Serious: Buzz is treated much more seriously than the villains of the first film, and pulls off a closer win than they did. He also succumbs to a lot of pratfalls in the process, much like the cartoons.
- Continuity Nod: Woody's fondness for peanut butter is brought up once again when he decides to enter the mess hall where Buzz is also in.
- Continuity Snarl:
- In the first film, Woody is the last surviving member of a woodpecker species labeled the "pileated red-crowned woodpecker". However, in this film, Mikey refers to him as a "red-crested pileated woodpecker".
- In the first film, humans couldn't understand what Woody was saying at all. Here, everyone understands him.
- Double Take: Around the beginning of the movie, Woody passes a TV showing a real life woodpecker on screen, which causes him to look back in confusion.
- Fire-Breathing Diner: After eating the pies at the pie-eating contest and costing Woo Hoo a win as a result, Woody succumbs to the hot sauce that has been injected in some of them and expels the fire from his beak into a trash bin Buzz was hiding in, charring the buzzard offscreen.
- Gold Fever: The founder of Camp Woo Hoo found a gold depot, which his sons argued over, up to and including building the campsite over it. Buzz intends to steal the deposit from the camp by tricking both Woo Hoo and Hoo Rah out of the area so he can have the site to himself.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: As usual, Buzz wears pants but no shirt.
- The Inspector Is Coming: Wally's role in the film initially, giving Woo Hoo plenty of citations during the first few minutes of his stay thanks to Woody's antics. He later becomes the referee for the camp games.
- Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Like with the original cartoons, Wally and Buzz are like this, being anthropomorphic animals living alongside humans like it's no big deal.
- Mythology Gag:
- The image of Buzz on his "Wanted!" Poster during the mid-credits sequence is that of his design from The New Woody Woodpecker Show.
- Before that, when Woody is made the mascot of the newly joint camps, their flag displays his image from the 2018 web series.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: During the games' pie eating contest, Woody's Big Eater tendencies strike, eating all the pies and costing Woo Hoo a point in the process. At least he did save Woo Hoo from falling victim to the spicy pies tampered with by Buzz.
- Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Although brief, Woody breaks off his partnership with Camp Woo Hoo over wanting more pizza. It's through this he manages to overhear Buzz's plan about the gold.
- Red Herring: Veteran fans of the cartoons would expect that Buzz's partner would be revealed to be Wally, as he is one of his old antagonists, however here, he is mostly a nice, if strict rule follower guy.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Before the pie-eating contest at the Wilderness Games, Buzz injects hot sauce into the pies that are to be eaten by Woo Hoo. When the contest actually starts, though, Woody eats all of the pies before either team does, and as a result is the one who ends up suffering the effects of the spicy pies.
- Toilet Humor: Wally cuts the cheese after blowing the whistle to start the wheelbarrow relay event at the Wilderness Games. Woody, who is relaxing in a beach chair next to him during this, is visibly surprised and unamused at the walrus.
- World of Pun: The film is filled to the brim with characters, mostly Woody and Buzz, dropping puns left and right.
