Post by Mark T. Locker.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a sequel to a movie that was adapted from a picture book that I used to love as a child. There were a whole lot of reasons I anticipated a terrible movie; for one, it was so many degrees removed from that beloved childhood book that the spirit of the original would surely be lost. I was right about that, but was wrong about what that would do to the movie. I actually enjoyed it, and perhaps that was partly because it was so far removed from the original that it was its own story altogether.
In the land of Swallow Falls, an inventor by the name of Flint Lockwood developed a device which made food rain down from the sky. Something must have gone wrong, because everyone fled. I think the food became enormous. That’s why they left in the book, at least. This is where the sequel picks up. Flint is contacted by a celebrated inventor named Chester V, who tells him that the giant food has become sentient! Flint and his crew head back to Swallow Falls to investigate.
The living food creatures vary from cute to vicious but not at all scary. (My son’s favorite is Tacodile…SUPREME!) Flint and his team discover that these creatures are not monsters at all. But as soon as they decide not to “clean up” the town, the inventor Chester V reveals his true nature; he is no kind inventor. He steals other peoples’ ideas and makes them his own. He will do whatever it takes to get his way. Including murder. Will he get away with this? How could he possibly?
This animated movie is silly, exciting, and geared perfectly towards young children. Adults will get a chuckle or two from the silly puns. Watch it in bed and it’s totally okay if you doze off a bit. 🙂