Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he
destroyed his most infamous invention, a machine that turned water into food
causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes, seen in the first movie ‘cloudy
with a chance of meatballs.’ But Flint soon learns that his invention survived
on a remote island and is now creating food animals “foodimals!" Flint and
his friends set out on a dangerous mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees,
hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world from the
newly created world of food!
Who goes to a kid’s movie with one friend at 10 pm? This
guy. This movie was not so surprisingly packed. Filling the theater with sold
out tickets. Want to know if this movie is for you? Well ask yourself, do I like
food? Do I like cute childish entertainment? Of course you do…
In the immediate aftermath of the dangerous food catastrophe
at Swallow Falls, the technology firm Live Corp. led by orange-vested CEO
Chester V swoops in to clean up the mess. First Chester tells everyone that
they must evacuate the island and offers young inventor Flint Lockwood a job at
his renowned company in "San Franjose," where Flint discovers what it
means to be an overcaffeinated 9 to 5 inventor in a Live Corp. cubicle. Then
Chester V reveals that Swallow Falls has been taken over by wild food-animal
hybrids and sends Flint to retrieve his invention from the island. But instead
of going alone, as directed by Chester V, Flint reluctantly brings along his
fisherman father Tim, weather reporter girlfriend Sam, her cameraman, security
guard Earl, chicken-loving Brent and, of course, pet monkey Steve.
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs two is not like the first
movie, in the first it is based off the children’s book which gives it a set up
story line we have all seen before. Since
the original Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs made it clear that this
cinematic story was only very loosely based on the beloved children's book, it
was easy to step into the story again for the second without any preconceived
expectations. To keep the food machine (" the FLDSMDFR") plot going,
the writers devised a conceit in which the FLDSMDFR is able to create
"living" food that looks and acts like a host of different real animal/food
hybrids. Some of the frightening predators; like the cheespider, the taco-diles,
and the apple pie-thons will momentarily scare younger viewers, whereas others
like Barry the strawberry, the fruit cockatiel, and the mini marshmallows are
sweet and huggable. In addition to "foodimals," the story introduces
viewers to new characters who might seem friendly to kids, but adults will
recognize them as evil right away like Chester V, a wall street like visionary
with a thing for facial hair, turtlenecks, and grand announcements. His
interest in Flint makes for an interesting conflict, and his talking ape
assistant, Barb, is the kind of confused character who just wants to be
considered a friend. The focus on the Live Corp. characters leaves less for
Flint's friends to do, but they manage to add enough comic relief for fans of
the first movie. As for the squishy Barry, the marshmallow family, and Mr.
Lockwood's new fishing pals (hey're like Despicable Me's Minions.
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