Producer Yves Rousset-Rouard was already considering a sequel during the shooting of the first film, but Patrice Leconte and the Splendid actors were not very motivated. He finally convinced them by offering each of them a fee of 650,000 francs, compared to 10,000 francs for the first film.

Michel Blanc did not participate in writing this second installment, not being convinced by the idea of a sequel, which was poorly received by his friends and spoiled the atmosphere on set.

The shooting was initially supposed to take place in Megève, but Stéphane Clavier, Christian Clavier's brother and ski instructor at Val-d'Isère, convinced the producer to change location because Megève would no longer have enough snow on the planned dates (March-May).

Several actors from the first film return in different roles: Guy Laporte goes from village chief to Popeye's wife's lover, Bruno Moynot from the man in black briefs to the weather presenter, and Hélène Aubert, wife of Thierry Lhermitte, plays Popeye's wife after playing one of the "strikeouts" of Jean-Claude in the first film.

The ski instructor teaching the "pole plant" to Jean-Claude Dusse, Fernand Bonnevie, was a real instructor from the French ski school in Val-d'Isère, chosen for his Savoyard authenticity.

Actor Roland Giraud was hired at the last minute for the role of Monsieur Camus after the initial extra withdrew, and shot his scene in an hour and a half.

Josiane Balasko had asked to be doubled for her famous fall in the snow, but it was ultimately she who performed it in the film.

The song Étoile des neiges was supposed to be hummed by Michel Blanc stuck in the chairlift, but as the rights were too high, Pierre Bachelet and Raymond Gimenès composed an alternative song, Quand te reverrai-je, using the same rhymes and an inverted melody from the original.

For the scene with the pig in the Val-d'Isère apartment, the animal weighing over 100 kg was introduced asleep in a wardrobe trunk because the property owner was not supposed to know that an animal was there; the effect of the sedative lasted only 52 minutes and the pig became aggressive when it woke up during filming.

The tasting scene of the "toad liqueur" had to be redone about twenty times because the director of photography Jean-François Robin was overcome with laughter at the grimaces of Gérard Jugnot and Michel Blanc, who actually burned their mouths with the real liqueur that was used.

The recipe for the toad in shallot liqueur had already been described in the theatrical version of Father Christmas is a Bastard.

The film only drew 1.5 million admissions on its release, compared to 2.3 million for the first part, but found its audience through television broadcasts, notably during the December 2008 re-broadcast which brought together 10.4 million viewers.

A third installment of the Bronzés was considered shortly after the success of this second film, with the characters meeting up in New York, but the team preferred to focus on the adaptation of Father Christmas is a Bastard; it would take until 2006 for The Bronzés 3.