Beethoven's 2nd

At first, the children lie to teachers and parents to avoid going to school in favor of trying to take care of four puppies, but when the lie is found out, they realize they still need to balance school with the huge responsibilities required to take care of pets.

At a party in a lake house, a teen boy who has been drinking leads a teen girl he goes to high school with to an upstairs bedroom. He locks her in the room and tells her, "Relax. This is going to be an experience you're never going to forget." This seemingly near-date rape is averted when Beethoven rips down a load-bearing beam, causing the house to collapse. The antagonists threaten to drown puppies. Aside from this, comedic pratfalls abound: Characters are frequently slipping and falling in Beethoven's (and his newborn puppies') wake. One of these puppies is thrown off a skateboard and flies high into the air before landing in a garbage can filled with grass clippings. A man gets hit in the groin by a stick. A woman falls off a wooden bridge into mud.

"Hell," and a boy commands his dog to bite a bully "in the wiener."

At a lake house, dozens of teens are shown drinking beer and acting intoxicated. Three teen boys are shown pouring beer on Beethoven's head. The lead teen daughter is offered beer at this party by intoxicated teenage boys but turns it down.