Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 |
  • USA • 2013 • 95m •   • Directed by: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn. • Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Will Forte, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Terry Crews, Kristen Schaal, Cody Cameron, Melissa Sturm, Kris Pearn, Craig Kellman. • Music by: Mark Mothersbaugh.    After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.
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If you recall, the original dealt with a machine designed by junior scientist Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader) called The Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator, or FLDSMDFR, that caused giant food to rain from the sky, burying his hometown island of Swallow Falls under pizza, spaghetti, pancakes and hamburgers. This sequel deals with its after effects. Flint's hometown is still buried under mountains of giant food, so he moves away from the island, to work for his hero, a flimsy-limbed super-scientist named Chester V (voiced by Will Forte, but looking very much like Mythbusters' Adam Savage). Chester runs a giant corporation called Live Corp. (read the first part of that title backwards) and sends Flint and his friends back to the island to turn off the FLDSMDFR because the invention has started imbuing its gastronomical creations with sentience, leading to an entire edible ecosystem.
Amid this edible population, Chester's main concern are the cheespiders -' large cheeseburgers with French fry legs that are learning to swim. If they can swim, they'll reach the mainlands of Europe, Africa, and North and South America. It's up to Flint to turn off his machine before it can do anymore damage. It doesn't take much to understand what Chester is up to or what the outcome will be. It hardly matters, this isn't a movie about plot, it's about visual delight.
You can see that the animators were given free reign over the populace here and they didn't just stop at the obvious. This is a movie in which they have taken their sequel and moved it in a different direction rather than just repeat the original. They stretch the animated form into something really special here. There's always something new to behold.
It has been a year of dry sauce for the animated feature. Lots of products, but little imagination. Of the films released in the past 9 months, only this film and "Monsters University" have really been special. There are nice messages about the importance of friendship and respecting the environment without beating you over the head. Will kids enjoy it? Absolutely. Is it funny? You bet. The humor is light and funny, and not overly-crude (there's a joke about cutting the cheese that is quite literal), and it is a lot of fun. This may not be any kind of a masterpiece but it's a work of imagination that feeds your appetite to be entertained.
Review by The_Film_Cricket from Birmingham, Alabama from the Internet Movie Database.
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