Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2" Movie Review"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" is the sequel to the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." This is a about a boy named Flint Lockwood. Ever since he was a little boy, his idol has been Chester V., a genius inventor who has a company called Live Corp. Flint Lockwood's dream was to become a Thinkwanot and work with Chester V. In the first movie, Flint's invention was the "FLDSMDFR" which creates food. The machine goes rabid and starts to make giant food. Chester V. then comes to Swallow Falls Island to help with the clean-up of the food. He relocates all the people of the island to San Franjose. While there, Chester V. gives him an opportunity to work for his company. His assistant, Barb, a talking and lipstick wearing orangutan ape, tells Flint that he has six months to prepare for the promotion ceremony. The promotion ceremony is when Chester V. hand picks one inventor to become a Thinkwanot. At the ceremony, Flint does not get picked by Chester. However, the next day Chester V. requests for Flint to come and talk to him. Chester explains to him that the island is being overrun by food animals and needs his help to find the FLDSMDFR to shut it down. Flint happily agrees to go. He then rushes home to inform his dad, Sam, Brent, Officer Earl Devereaux, and Manny. They then all head to the island to try and find his invention. They face many trials and meet new people. In my opinion, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" is an entertaining fiction story. It is very whimsical and engaging. I would recommend this movie for families with young children. However, even if you do not have young children, this movie is sure to put a smile on your face. The story line is unique and creative. Animation was effectively used to help viewer's imagine a world gone crazy with food animals. The movie's plot takes many twists, leaving the audience in suspense of what will happen next. Grab some popcorn and soda and enjoy "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" this weekend. Just make sure the popcorn does not become giant and bury you in your seat!

The story isn't great, about a 6/10, but I'm giving it an 8 purely because of how beautiful the art is in this film. I'm a concept artist so backgrounds and cinematography tend to be things I notice a lot more in movies. The cinematography and set design are incredible in this film. I was blown away by how gorgeous it is. It's not just good for a kids movie, it's just good art. The color schemes and shifts from scene to scene are top notch. Some of the best I've seen of any kids cartoon movie and comparable to: Princess and The Frog, Cinderella, Nausicaa, Akira, Lupin III, Kiki's Delivery Sevice, the first Toy Story, etc. I had to keep pausing the movie just to take screenshots. Anyway, that's why I'm rating it so high.

After the first one, there was no sequels needed. But those die hard fans enforced a sequel, making this a franchise.Lets just start of with fact that the writing is just awful. It feel like it was only made for fans, with not much heart and charm. The jokes aren't funny anymore, now they're just stale, annoying, and repetitive. Did I mention how pointless the plot is?SPOILERS AHEAD!!OK, in this film, Flint is sent back to Swallow falls because his hero Chester V wants him to shut off his invention that survived the explosion from the first one using a chip. When Flint puts in the chip, it reveals Chester was using his thing to make food animals (Which were created by the machine) into a food bar. Why couldn't Chester use his technology to put the food animals down without telling Flint? This film also has an environmental message to save animals. Environmental messages only films aren't very deep and I prefer messages about having a better life.END OF SPOILERS!!The animation, like the first one has generic back-rounds, but the character design is very mediocre and the humans just don't look beautiful or good. DreamWorks and Pixar do their animation well with humans but not this film.For the characters, on the middle of this pointless adventure, Flint brings his friends even though Chester told him not to. These characters are completely useless, stupid, and unfunny during the adventure. The character that brings the (SPOILER) environmental message to life is Sam. Flint was completely stupid to bring his friends on this trip and there's not much character development.This film is pretty bad. So this film is about Flint getting a job at Live corp. to work for his idol. He has to go back to his home island to save it from food-animals. This film has awful writing , useless characters, and mediocre animation. This film relates to Jurassic park 3 because of the plot. Story: 3/10 Animation: 4/10 Characters: 3/103/10

"Cloud 2" walks right into the standard reasons the sequel always comes across about 2/3rds as good as the original. Cody Cameron overloads the film with the elements that made the original, well, original. Every conceivable color is used, the visuals are wild and imaginative and a lot of dopey food puns are tossed around ("there's a leek in the boat"). Unfortunately, throwing in more these elements makes for a more overwhelming and not, necessarily better film. Take the food monsters in the film - while some are mildly entertaining (flamangoes), most are just stupid (a spider/cheeseburger hybrid?). To continue the food metaphor, putting more of the same spice into a dish patrons previously found enjoyable can work against it. The father/son dynamic which gave dramatic drive to the original gets over played here with Tim, the father, now looking for validation from Flint, the son. Credit Terry Crews for bringing and interesting and distinctive void to the proceedings. In short, not a bad film but not quite worth making a special time to see.