Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back

An evil tech genius threatens to turn the city into a metaverse simulation, leaving the Combat Wombat to save the day. She'll save the world... after a quick nap.

• Deborah Mailman as Maggie Diggins / Combat Wombat, a lazy female wombat who turns into a superhero at night.
• Ed Oxenbould as Sweetie, a sugar glider
• David Wenham as Lenny Glick, a villainous chameleon scientist who wants to control all animals through a device that makes them enter a virtual world where their wishes are fulfilled but where they abandon their freedom and power.
• Elizabeth Cullen as Skylar, a teenage chameleon delinquent
• Mark Coles Smith as Reginald, an elderly echidna
• Dan Brumm as Chief Furbank, an elderly dingo
• Grant Denyer as Grant Quokka, a quokka with a moustache who works as a news reporter
• Riley Von Husen as Bradley Burrows, a Raccoon bandit

The film has worldwide sales by the Stuttgart-based company Sola Media, it premiered at the Brisbane International Film Festival in 2023 but was only theatrically released in Australia on 29 February 2024 with distribution by Maslow Entertainment.^[3] and by Universal Pictures internationally.

The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Cath Clark of The Guardian wrote that it was "an overly fast animation about a chameleon taking over the world with computer wizardry feels bizarrely inappropriate for children under five".^[4] James Croot, writing for The Post, gave the film a negative review, noting that it "suffers from a severe case of sequelitis".^[5] The Canberra Times' reviewer gave the film two stars and felt that whilst the film was "colourful and keeps moving" it was "loud and heavy handed".^[6]