Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 is an animated family film directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn. The plot continues the story of the first showing the aftermath of the food disaster. The machine Flint (Bill Hader), created was not actually destroyed and has made sentient food that is going to take over the planet. Or is it? Everything is not as it seems and Flint and co are dragged into a world of intrigue.
I thought this was very meh, it felt like a sequel that didn’t need to be made. It failed to recapture the emotion of the first film especially between Flint and his dad and felt like it retread a lot of characters beats from the first film.
Something that I thought was odd and just want to point out is the relationship between Flint (Bill Hader) and Sam (Anna Faris). So at the end of the first film they’re a couple in a romantic sense, but in this film you could easily just think they’re friends; they don’t even hold hands. Personally, I thought it was odd and ruined both of their characters a bit; maybe it was done in a effort to make the film even more PG then it already is.
The imagination is also less impressive this time around because we have seen it all before, yes the food creatures are cute, but the design of them is not all that different from the food itself so it does not feel like a lot of effort has gone into the design.
Overall, this is by no means a bad film, but it is lesser than the first film which already had problems.
Pros
The premise is still kind of neat
The food creatures are cute
Cons
It doesn’t justify its own existence
Ignoring the Flint Sam relationship
The side characters are even more bland
2.5/5
Reviewed by Luke
Another Millennial Reviewer 