Review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) by Josh B — 27 Apr 2014

It was bound to happen, after the success of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), a sequel was immediately greenlit. Though they decided not to adapt the follow-up to the original Cloudy book, Pickles to Pittsburgh, the makers created an original sequel which follows on immediately from the first film.

It's a charming and very imaginative animated film which is funny. After the island town of Swallow Falls is engulfed by food, inventing whiz Chester V (Will Forte) promises to clean up the mess, while it's residents including Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader), his father Tim (James Caan), weathergirl Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Officer Earl (Terry Crews) are moved temporarily to San Franjose, and Flint gets a job at Chester V's company, Live Corp.

However, Chester V has a dark plan, sending his team in to look for Flint's invention that caused the mess in the first place, but when they go missing, Chester V sends Flint and his friends back to the island to find out what happened, and what they find is beyond belief.

It's very inventive, especially when it's revealed what happened to the food from the first film, and it turns into something like Jurassic Park, only with food. There are a lot of food related gags throughout, some clever and some are plain groaners, but it has a lot of imagination and fun on display, and it's amazing to look at.