Cloudy with a Change of Meatballs made me cry . A lot . I cried in the dramaturgy , cried on the way home , cried on the sound with my Dad where I tried to explicate how a intellect - reading sweatband ( antecedently owned by a monkey ) brought a father and son together . regrettably , the sequel does not fork out the same emotional jolt . But it ’s still pretty cute .
The subsequence to this confect - colored CG cinema , pep up by the Graeco-Roman youngster ’s book , has all the trappings of the original — but none of the smarts . The unspoilt newsworthiness is , it retain all the on - the - nose humor of the first . And what it lacks in emotion , it wee up for in wordplay . Thirty pun to be exact : I know , because I counted .
Picking up right where the original left off , the sequel conjoin inventor Flint Lockwood and friend on the recently demolished shore of Swallow Falls . bury under the leftovers of Flint ’s latest creative activity ( THE FLDSMDFR ! ! ! ! ) the townspeople are pressure to relocate back on the mainland , while the newly introduced graphic symbol Chester V and his crew of thinkquanots clean up the passel .
Voiced by the delightful Will Forte , Chester V steps in to fill the void of villain . Chester is like an Evil Steve Jobs , amplified to 11 for mirthful effect ( welcome guests with Namaste , put on tinted light-green glasses , forever plying his scientist minions with caffeine ) . Chester play upon the naivety of immature Flint , fold him into his Live Corp Company . But his existent plans are to steal the FLDSMDFR , and use it to make the next version of Food Bars 8.0 , which are like a fancy granola taproom . The only problem is , the FLDSMDFR has evolved into something even more striking . rather of turning food into water , now it ’s turn water into anthropomorphic food creatures . Or foodimals .
The foodimals make it unacceptable for Chester ’s malign scientist to locate the FLDSMDFR , so the inventor turns to Flint and friend to retrieve the piece of technology before these angry being learn to float and take over the world . Of naturally , these fauna are anything but evil . And the line up of cunning is overwhelming . Even their gens are cute — seriously , try not to read the name of these creations out loud without smiling . Like when you agnise a Egglanatee is half egg works , half manatee !
Here ’s just a few of the creatures I caught : Buffaloaf , Crabcake , Hippotatomus , Flamangos , Eggplanatee , Mosquitoat , Bananostrich , Fruit Cockatiel , Susheep , Apple Piethon . So cute . deplorably the find of the domain of foodimals is also where the picture kind of goes off the railing , and becomes more of a vas for endearing food puns and less of an actual film .
The sequel trades gag for a cohesive content or genuine motivations . , Sure the foodimals are absolutely lovely — but their foundation only causes more muddiness . peculiarly after the first film spent so much time junket on these shortly - to - be sentient organism . So we should n’t rust intellectual nourishment that ’s cunning ? But is n’t all the nutrient cute ? Okay , so only eat animal once they ’re dead ? But wait , is n’t that how animals and works become our solid food , by give out ? So only nutrient that ’s not “ really really ” active and has a precious name is safe — that food is for petting not eating ?
Then there ’s the character of Chester . Innovation was such a recession stone of the first movie , so it ’s hard to watch them paint an intact humanity of scientists as giant . So you only get to be a serious scientist if you work for yourself and make no money ? Plus there ’s a lot of back - peddling on the part of the main character Flint , to the point where it becomes tough origin for such a bone - headed lead this clock time around . Did n’t he just find out these lesson ? Sadly , the film ’s message breakdown is a total disconnect . And this stool it very difficult to elicit any sort of worked up reply from the audience .
Thankfully , there ’s still a lot of trade good bookending the muddled content . Flint ’s completely clownlike imagination ( and penchant for make retro blue wires and plugs on all of his existence for drama ) is still there . The over - the - top seemingly whacky but really crazy clever body fluid is uniform throughout the integral picture show . And the gorgeous world that the first film created has only been expand into some sort of intellectual nourishment - centric Jurassic Park that will give you gelidity . It ’s absolutely gorgeous piece of work , sensational animation and immeasurably more compelling than the later ingathering of CG films from Disney Studios ( Pixar not include ) .
If you ’re content cooing over the cute strawberry mark name Barry , then you ’ll be able-bodied to relish this picture . Your kids will love it , and the expectant screenland will make them fall in erotic love with the foodimal jungle . But I ’d keep a copy of the pilot on hand at home . Just in case .
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