Reviews & Ratings for
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

It's strike three for Sony Pictures Animation, and it doesn't help that their first film since this one is undoubtedly going to be a strike four. This is why I have mixed feelings about the LEGO sequels - Horrible Bosses was hilarious, but the writers of that also wrote Burt Wonderstone. They eventually moved on to this, a sequel to a wonderful movie with intelligent writers and directors that thinks rehashing the jokes from the first one will keep it witty.

Remember when Brent was that manbaby mascot for seafood? Let's throw him in there so he can utter "uh-oh" every time we see him and make fun of how fat he is!

Remember when everyone took a few seconds to realise what Steve did with his poop? Let's have him smear his poop on a piece of paper that will later get dumped into delicious, edible liquid!

Woah. People actually laughed at that leek joke we just came up with. Hey, let's do it again but with Flint's dad! Same with the Mr. T......erry Crewes cop tears gag! It's always funny the second time around!

The problem here is that Lord and Miller were there to provide the story and executive approval, but not much else. And with the scribes of, um, The Internship and, eh, Girl Most Likely as the scribes of LEGO 2, I'll have doubts for the next few years if the producer credit is really worth it.

Basically, this does to the original book what Illumination did to The Lorax. Alongside environmental propaganda, it just concentrates on being wacky and cartoonish rather than clever. That, and the performances of Kristen Schaal and Will Forte are unusually boring. If this meddling is the same case with Genndy Tartakovsky's future projects after Hotel 2 and Lauren Faust's Medusa, then I've lost all faith in Sony.