Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

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.

 

Was it any good?

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 (they're like Despicable Me's Minions.