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.

Allen West

By Allen Stewart 

Editor of Centerfold 

 

    If I had the confidence, personality and life of Kanye West and how it would affect my day, the morning of the change would be so drastic it would nearly mirror the way I changed the music game. Me being a creative genius and all I would not step out of bed but more so…glide out of bed. I would land on my rug designed as an air strip into my snake skin loafers because everyone knows I only ride first class. I’d walk down stairs and be greeted by my chef. I would give him a hand five but automatically purell them. The reason being is simply…..I can’t get sick. 

Classic "Breakfast Club" still relevant

Breakfast anyone?: John Hughes' movie about troublemakers is a classic.

   This John Hughes creation shows five high school students from different social circles at a Saturday detention.  Of the five, there is a socialite, a jock, a criminal, a nerd, and a basket case.  In order to escape boredom, they wander the halls, avoid the principal, and actually get to know each other.  Through the many disagreements among them, they discover that they are all bizarre in one way or another.  In the end, all truths are revealed and new friendships are formed.

   This movie is a classic.  The clothes, hairstyles, and technologies may be behind us, but the pressures, stereotypes, and detentions all still exist.  I love this movie because of its honesty; it shows that five completely different people can become friends, based merely on personality as opposed to the status quo.  This is a must-see movie and can be found in many different locations such as Target or Netflix.

- By Rachael Sprague 

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