Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, English Hollywood Film Movie Review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * *
English Film review
Johnson Thomas
Tasty visuals but poor in story
Film: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF
MEATBALLS 2
(3D)
Cast: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James
Caan, Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, Terry Crews, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick
Harris, Benjamin Bratt
Directed by: Cody
Cameron & Kris Pearn
Rating: * *
The first time round, it was a tasty
enough joy-ride-nowhere close to exciting but nevertheless interesting. This
second installment in the franchise picks up from where the first ended. Where
the first movie clued itself on the book of the same name by Judi and Ron
Barrett, the sequel treads a narrower out-of-page path that digresses
completely from Pickles to Pittsburgh- the follow-up book by the
authors.
Cloudy 2 finds Swallow Falls having to cope with the big, gooey
mess left by those spaghetti tornadoes and other torrential tidbits.
Flint Lockwood(Bill Hader) believes
that his genius is finally being recognized by his idol Chester V(Will Forte),
who out of the blue invites him to join the Live Corp Company, with Barb(orangutan
with human brain) escorting him to the HQ. Seeing that
Flint’s ambition has always been to get recognition as a famous inventor,
Chester sends him out on a dangerously delicious mission to save the world from
his own machine created creatures called ‘foodimals.’ Flint , being naïve, is
unable to divine Chester’s true intent.
For the first one, Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller not
only assembled likable voice casts but also cleverly worked-in relatable themes while
giving food a more sinister and varied projection.
The creators of
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" retain some of the earlier
creative effusiveness and also ends up substituting original thought for
greater size and numbers. The food doesn't just fall from the sky, it moves,
breathes, and develops its own ecosystem. The foodimals end up being more
interesting than the human toons inhabiting the conceived landscape.
The first movie was
about a kid obsessed with science and ostracized from his society and finally learning that even he had a place in it. This second movie is not
half as interesting- t an admittedly adorable, talking strawberry, not-withstanding.
. The characters of "Cloudy 2" are almost non-existent. The visual
creatives manage a sumptuous buffet but it’s a little too out of our reach to
be edible. This film simply lacks inventiveness and story , making the going
dull and difficult to sustain. The voice cast is solid enough. This film has a
few too many flaws and since it’s an extension of an idea that did not
necessarily warrant another outing- is less than satisfactory!
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