A school anniversary, a musical nobody can agree on, and mysterious holes appearing across the grounds — School of Magical Animals 2 has a full plate before its students even open the curtain.
What is School of Magical Animals 2 about?
The second entry in the German family franchise returns to the School of Magical Animals for a bigger, noisier occasion: the school's anniversary, which the students decide to mark with a full musical production. Getting there is anything but smooth. Rehearsals splinter under competing egos and stage fright, friendships strain under the pressure of putting on a show everyone will actually see, and just as the class starts to find its footing, strange holes begin appearing across the school grounds with no explanation in sight. The film balances the two threads — will the musical actually come together, and what's digging up the yard — as its young cast and their animal companions navigate both mysteries at once. It's a story about a class learning to pull together when the easy path would be to fall apart.
About the cast
Emilia Maier and Loris Sichrovsky lead the young ensemble alongside Leonard Artur Conrads, with Marleen Lohse, Justus von Dohnányi, Milan Peschel, Nadja Uhl and Heiko Pinkowski rounding out the adult cast as the school's staff and parents caught up in the anniversary chaos.
Context & significance
Directed by Sven Unterwaldt Jr., the film is a 2022 German production and the second installment in a franchise built around a magical boarding school where students are paired with talking animal companions. At 103 minutes, it keeps its family-adventure tone light and its fantasy elements playful rather than dark, aimed squarely at younger viewers and the adults watching alongside them.
Watching School of Magical Animals 2 on Ktime
School of Magical Animals 2 streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so younger viewers can follow the whole adventure in Farsi audio without needing to read subtitles. A free K-Time account login is all it takes to start watching, on a platform built with a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking families.