Looney Eye 2 – The Movie

2024 · 11m · Germany

Directed by Alexander Peskador

Genres: comedy, crime, mystery

Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical

A bumbling private eye hunts a stolen burger while a mysterious man in white shadows his every move.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

A sequel to a film nobody asked for, about a burger heist that's really about nothing—and somehow that's exactly the point. Peskador knows the bit is the absurdity itself, and he's shameless enough to commit to it fully, which is why it lands where it shouldn't.

Felix

The whimsy gestures toward Kaufman and early Wes Anderson, but without the formal discipline those traditions demand; the absurdist tone feels more YouTube sketch than considered cinema, untethered to the visual or editorial rigor that would elevate the conceit.

Margot

That mysterious man in white stalking every frame is the real engine—the decision to make him a constant, wordless presence transforms what could've been a throw-away gag into genuine eerie comedy, and it's a choice that costs nothing but execution.

Zoe