Good Burger 2 is a 2023 American comedy film directed by Phil Traill, written by the writing team of Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert, and produced by and starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.

The story follows Dexter Reed reuniting with Ed at his old workplace Good Burger, where the pair unveils a secret involving a successor to their old rival restaurant.

Talks of a sequel for Good Burger occurred in 2018 through the interest of both Thompson and Mitchell, three years after the pair were reunited in a sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2015.

Kopelow and Seifert, the co-creators of the original sketch and co-writers of the first film, were hired to write the screenplay, and Traill was confirmed to be directing.

Twenty-six years after the events of the first film, Dexter Reed has quit Good Burger in the hopes of becoming a successful entrepreneur, but his ideas turn out to be failures.

Cecil tries to appeal to Dexter, explaining their intent is to expand Good Burger but not to take it away from Ed and are planning to give the employees big raises.

At the franchise launch party, Cecil reveals that the flagship store is being shut down with their employees being fired as mandated by the contract, which Dexter and Ed had failed to read before signing.

[4] On September 23, 2015, both Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell made a "Good Burger" sketch for a reunion on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

[5] In December 2021, the director of the original film and current CEO of Paramount Pictures, Brian Robbins revealed he wanted to create an animated series based on Good Burger for the Paramount+ streaming service, and hoped to have Thompson and Mitchell involved at some capacity.

[8] During the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards where Thompson served as host, the duo once again hinted the sequel after performing a skit with Kumail Nanjiani.

[11] In March 2023, both Thompson and Mitchell officially announced the sequel's title as Good Burger 2, in addition to both actors reprising their roles as Dexter Reed and Ed.

[2] The film was dedicated to two of the original Good Burger cast members, Abe Vigoda and Ron Lester, who both died in 2016, as well as rapper Coolio (performer of the original theme song for the sitcom Kenan & Kel) and singer Irish Grinstead from 702 (performers of the promotional single from the Good Burger soundtrack), who died in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

[20] It featured Vic Mensa, Maeta, Wiz Khalifa, Yung Gravy, Teezo Touchdown, Paul Russell, Wé Ani, Trey Makai, Jutes, NoiseOfCory and Kel Mitchell.

Forced into playing the straight man to Mitchell's more flashy character, Thompson ends up explaining the wacky shenanigans happening instead of doing anything comedic.

Almost every nonsensical line Mitchell utters is followed by a sober explanation from Thompson, suggesting the writers don't trust the audience to get the obvious jokes".