Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
review by
ANIZ FILMVALA
*****
STORY.
After Flint Lockwood and his friends save the world from the food storm in the first film, super-inventor Chester V, the CEO of Live Corp, is tasked to clean the island. He relocates Flint, his friends, and the citizens of Swallow Falls to San Franjose, California. Unbeknownst to Flint, the FLDSMDFR survived the explosion and landed in the center of the island, and Chester is determined to find it. Chester invites Flint, his biggest fan, to work at Live Corp, where he meets Chester's assistant Barb, a talking orangutan with human intelligence. Six months later, Flint humiliates himself during a promotion ceremony when his invention "Party-In-A-Box" explodes. Meanwhile, Chester is informed that his search-parties on the island have been attacked by monstrous cheeseburgers which are learning how to swim. Fearing the world's inevitable doom, Chester tasks Flint to find the FLDSMDFR and destroy it once and for all. Despite Chester's demands to keep the mission classified, Flint recruits his girlfriend and meteorologist Sam Sparks, her cameraman Manny, police officer Earl Devereaux, Steve, the monkey who communicates with the device on his head, and "Chicken" Brent. Much to Flint's dismay, his father Tim joins the crew and they travel to Swallow Falls on his fishing boat.
When arriving, they notice that a
jungle-like environment has overgrown the island. Tim stays behind while Flint
and the others investigate, finding a vast habitat of living food animals. Tim,
searching for food at his abandoned tackle shop, encounters a family of
humanoid pickles and bonds with them by fishing. Chester discovers that Flint
allowed his friends to join on the mission and arrives on the island with Barb,
chagrined and determined to separate them. After escaping a Tacodile attack,
Sam notices that the foodimal was protecting its family, and begins to suspect
Chester is up to no good. Flint finds his former lab and invents a device that
can track the FLDSMDFR. Sam attempts to convince Flint to spare the foodimals,
but Flint is intent on making Chester proud. Sam leaves in anger, along with
the others (including Steve). In the jungle, Sam proves that the foodimals mean
no harm by taming a Cheespider. Upon realizing Chester's intentions, the group
is then ambushed by Live Corp employees.
Flint finds the FLDSMDFR, but
notices a family of cute marshmallows and becomes hesitant to destroy the
machine. Chester immediately seizes control of the FLDSMDFR and announces his
plot to make his updated line of food bars out of the foodimals. A crushed
Flint is knocked into the river but rescued by the marshmallows. Flint is taken
to his father, who along with the foodimals, help him infiltrate the Live Corp
building that is under construction on the island. Flint frees the trapped
Foodimals and confronts Chester, who threatens to make food bars out of his
friends. Chester makes several holograms of himself to overwhelm Flint, but
Flint uses the "Party-In-A-Box" to expose the real Chester. An army
of Foodimals arrive and Flint's friends are freed by Barb, having a change of
heart. Chester tries to make off with the FLDSMDFR, but is eaten by a
Cheespider. With the island safe from Chester and Live Corp destroyed, Flint
returns the FLDSMDFR to its place and the foodimals continue to live in peace
as more are born. Flint fishes with his father for the first time, finding it
enjoyable.
CRITIC
VIEW.
Delightful,
lip smacking and lustrous Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a visual extravaganza, right at the
eve of Christmas.
Kids will
enjoy every moment as there is a good story to be hooked on, also the animation
looks dynamic with your 3D goggles on, just sit back and get glued to a fantasy
world with fruits, vegetable and sauces food storm, burger as a
monster and many more amusing food frolics.
Don’t miss it, its Christmas time.
