Storyline
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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Cast
Neil Patrick Harris, Khamani Griffin, Terry Crews, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Kelly Stables, Cody Cameron, Maddie Taylor, Melissa Sturm, Ashley Lambert, Shane Sweet, Kristen Schaal, Eddie Frierson, Wendy Hoffman, Elisa Gabrielli, Bridget Hoffman, David Cowgill, Steve Alterman, June Christopher, Scott Menville, Jackie Gonneau, Andy Samberg, Craig Kellman, Al Roker, Benjamin Bratt, Peter Siragusa, Marina Squerciati, Will Forte, James Caan, Kris Pearn, Tania Gunadi, Walter Jones, David Sheinkopf
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Reviews
80
Village Voice
The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise takes its comic cues from The Muppets and Pee Wee's Playhouse, kids' shows that ripen as their audience matures.
71
The sequel quadruples the recipe, with gags on top of gags on top of gags in a way only animation could achieve. Like a foodie “Jurassic Park” conjured up by Tex Avery, “Cloudy 2″ is a sight to behold … as long as your brain hasn’t turned to mush by the halfway point.
70
It might not possess the robust charm of its 2009 predecessor, but Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 nevertheless gets an amusing boost from a genetically modified, marauding menagerie of Tacodiles, Watermelophants, Sasquashes and assorted other "Foodimals" that have overtaken the once-tranquil island of Swallow Falls.
70
What Erica Rivinoja, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s script lacks in lingering nutritional value, it compensates for with amusing food puns. If nothing else, the pic’s zany tone and manic pace are good for a quick-hit sugar high.
70
The Dissolve
The film retains much of what worked about the first film, and it brings a similarly smart, patient, visually striking approach to the gags.
