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Unable to stay out of trouble, Peter Rabbit embarks on a series of adventures with a new bunny friend who knew his father.
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Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway Plot Summary and Synopsis
A wedding of Thomas and Bea takes place, with all their friends, human and animal, in attendance. Peter Rabbit accepts this new part of his life. After their honeymoon, Thomas helps Bea with her children’s storybooks based on Peter and his friends. Peter is a bit dismayed to know that the books have portrayed him as naughty. Bea then gets a letter in the mail from a publisher who wants to distribute her books.
Thomas and Bea take Peter, Benjamin, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail to meet the publisher, Nigel Basil-Jones. Nigel presents his marketing plan toward the rabbits, which paints Peter as a troublemaker. They even see a billboard for a potential Peter Rabbit movie, which makes him look outright villainous. A dismayed Peter walks away from the group and goes into town, where he meets an older rabbit named Barnabas. Barnabas recognizes Peter as the son of his old friend but they are unfortunately caught by animal catchers and taken to a pet shelter.
Bea starts to sign over the rights to her books to Nigel, in agreement that the books would not be turned into some cash grab property. But it becomes apparent that this is Nigel’s plan anyway, as he is known for turning simple concepts into something for a more commercial audience.
Peter and Barnabas are taken in by a little girl named Amelia and kept in a cage. Barnabas manages to free himself and Peter with the help of Barnabas’s crew: mouse Samuel Whiskers, creepy cat Tom Kitten, and his sister Mittens. They all get away to town with the food after raiding the refrigerator. Thomas and Bea then find Peter and bring him home while Barnabas returns to his hideout.
The next day, Peter takes Benjamin and his sisters to join him in meeting the Barnabas crew. Barnabas recognizes Peter’s sisters and divulges to all of them his big plan. He and his crew want to rob from the farmers’ market, with their big score being packs of dried fruit. Meanwhile, Thomas and Bea meet with Nigel again to go over designs for the rabbits. Thomas starts to realize that Nigel’s ideas are not in the best interests of Bea’s work.
The rabbits gather help from their animal friends, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, Felix D’eer, and Tommy Brock to pull off their heist. After getting the dried fruits into their getaway truck, all the animals, including Benjamin and the sisters, are captured by the pet pound people. To Peter’s dismay, it turns out Barnabas was always using him and his friends to keep the dried fruit for themselves. He even intentionally met Peter in town after reading about him in his book. Everyone is left to blame Peter for getting them into this mess, while he himself feels utterly terrible.
Peter enlists Thomas for his help in recovering his friends. After hitting a snag with their truck, they go to Bea for help while she is in a meeting with Nigel and others from the publishing company. Bea realizes Nigel’s intentions and pulls her stories from his company. After talking it out with Thomas, she agrees to help him and Peter recovers all their friends.
Peter, Benjamin, and the sisters then go to Barnabas’s hideout where they turn the tables by tying Barnabas and his crew to ropes so that they get pulled away when the nearby tailor shop owner leaves in his truck. They are all then captured by the pet pound people, putting Barnabas back where he once got away from. The rabbits then return all the dried fruit to their owners.
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway Ending
The rabbits rejoin Thomas and Bea as they drive home, with Peter deciding to be more willing to listen to the ones that love him.
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