Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Review

By Kelsey Yang 

Staff Writer 

  Since the title of the movie is so long, from now on it’s just going to be called Cloudy Meatballs 2.

  You didn’t need to see the first movie to enjoy this sequel, as I saw the first movie in elementary school. It’s one of those movies where you go in not expecting much but twenty minutes in you’re thinking: Hahaha this is great.

  Unlike Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1, Cloudy Meatballs 2 doesn’t involve the beloved “food rain” that made the first movie so popular. Instead its plotline revolves around what’s left of the huge heap of food and what to do with it. With all the civilians of the island evacuated, no one knows what’s become of the island. A revisit to the island revealed that instead of rotting (which is what should’ve happened to all those food, come on), all the food has “come alive” and morphed into food-animals, or foodimals; and now there is a huge ecosystem of food living happily on the island. The main character Flint Lockwood, who is the inventor of the machine, is the only one with the power to control the food machine – do the foodimals stay or go?

  The movie’s biggest success is the comedy that got even older audiences to laugh out loud. (Yeah out loud.) They threw out many animal puns. One example was when the cheese-spider (cheeseburger) rolled over and revealed its bottom bun. “Scratch its buns,” said Lockwood. The audience got a good laugh out of that. In another scene a leek was fired onto a boat, the captain, shocked, screamed, “There’s a leek in my boat!” Cloudy Meatballs 2 also brought new vocabulary, like flamangos, hippotato, mosquitoast, buffaloaf… Check out the list at http://cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.wikia.com/wiki/Foodimals . It’s actually really funny when you see the foodimals in the movie.

  I’ve got to give it to the producers behind Cloudy Meatballs 2, they managed to create a sequel that didn’t disappoint fans of the first movie and kept the eyes of both young and older audiences glued to the screen. I didn’t even need a restroom break.