TORONTO — "Hi, I'm Michael and I need to take a piss."

This is the first thing "Fubar 2" director Michael Dowse says to me in a downtown Toronto hotel a few hours before the world premiere at TIFF. It is also among the most printable.

This shouldn't be surprising.

As writer and director of Fubar (2002), one of the most beloved (and vulgar) Canadian movies of all-time (274 F-bombs, according to Wikipedia), Dowse is no stranger to the odd cuss word.

He's also no stranger to pressure, which he says was the biggest factor behind making "Fubar 2."

Sequels need to be bigger and badder than their predecessor, and "Fubar 2" doesn't disappoint.

Dowse says he and his co-writers and Fubar stars Paul Spence (Dean) and David Lawrence (Terry) began throwing around ideas for another Fubar film a few years ago.

"It was just sort of there for the taking . . . we said, ‘Let's start writing something and if we like what we write, we can explore making a film,'" he said.

"There's a huge amount of pressure, but it kept you honest. We wanted it to be as funny as the first one, we wanted it to be different. It couldn't suck."

The original Fubar was a micro-budgeted mockmentary following two clueless Calgary metalheads (or bangers) as they tested and perfected the art of drinking beer like a man. However, the strength of their friendship is tested after Dean is diagnosed with "nut cancer."

"Fubar 2" takes place years later, but have the guys grown up, cut their hair and got a real job? Don't count on it.

"Knowledge of non-knowledge is power," Dean tells Terry as they drive towards Fort McMurray and their new lives in making fat cash in Alberta's oil patch.

That's the plot. "We thought it would be interesting for the bangers to get money," Dowse says.

"Fort McMurray is just the logical place, because that's where headbangers go to start making $80,000 a year."

Fort McMurray is a central character in the story, as many Canadian audiences will be seeing for the first time the massive scale of Texas North.

"Everything is big there, the trucks, the people, the jobs, and especially those refineries. It's this interesting place, it's a weird little bubble of tons of money," Dowse, a former Calgarian who now lives in Montreal, says. "Tons of drugs, tons of prostitution, it's this little freezing cold, Vegas place."

There was no written dialogue for "Fubar 2," which lends to a lot of authentic and natural wordplay. Scenes of oil patch workers taking a coffee break are particularly apt at catching the ebb and flow of men sitting around in a circle razzing each other.

"You don't really know as a filmmaker where the scene is necessarily going," Dowse says. "That brings so much energy to it."

Both Lawrence and Spence spent time working in the oil patch when they were younger, which added to the dialogue's authenticity and general feel.

Even for those who haven't seen the first film, Fubar's legacy lives in rural Canadian fields, beaches and parentally abandoned suburb houses anytime some young fella cracks open a beer and begins to "giv'er."

The sequel may not have the same contribution to the Canadian lexicon, although singer Michael Buble may be interested to know that his surname is used to describe an unprintable sex act.

"That's one of my favourite jokes," Dowse says with a big ole' belly laugh. He then says something I can't print.

Fubar 2 will giv'er again in theatres October 1.