As an animated film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 will bring lots of laughs for kids. They hardly wrote this with parents or adults in mind but it still works in many ways.

| Original Score: B | Aug 15, 2024

Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn (working from a script by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, and Erica Rivinoja) have expanded on it nicely, crafting a film that feels like the natural successor to the original without simply rehashing its story.

| Feb 24, 2021

The movie's imagination, inventiveness and humor are its selling points.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Sony Pictures Animation certainly knows how to make an entertaining animated feature.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 3, 2020

While the kiddos will initially be entertained by how all of this is presented, the likelihood is that both children and adults will quickly tire.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

There's no doubt animators have once again beat the odds and created an enjoyable sequel to another surprise hit.

| Oct 26, 2018

The characters are actually better rounded this time and evolve in fun ways. Now that they're all together, the dynamic of the film is much more fun and lighthearted.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

The joy of the new film is found in the journey through a multicolored jungle island populated with mutant food beasts.

| Nov 29, 2017

There's little subtlety or character development and the plot is thin, but if the snappy psychedelic visuals and fanciful storylines captured your kid's attention first time around then it should do once again.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2016

To enjoy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 you'll need to relax and just enjoy the colors and creative visuals. The animation is eye-popping and the menagerie of food critters is truly inventive.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2016

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 is an example of a superior animated sequel that builds on the ideas of the first film and enriches its mythology.

| Original Score: 7.0/10 | Aug 1, 2014

Man cannot survive on puns alone, but it seems kids will happily eat them up.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 17, 2014

It's competent and looks delectable but fails to capture the same bright and breezy flavour. It's a cheeseburger to the original's prime cut.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014

The film is missing the originality and jokes that Phil Lord and Chris Miller brought to the first one, but it has one killer trick up its sleeve in the shape of the foodimals.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2014

Should be re-titled Periods of Satire, Broken by Scattered Jokes of Varying Quality, Sun-Burning Colour and Sudden Storm-Surge-Pacing.

| Dec 27, 2013

If you think the food metaphors and similes I've whipped up in this review became increasingly tiresome and childish, then that perhaps is the best analogy of all for describing Cloudy 2.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 17, 2013

Ravishing, magnificently silly sequel to the nutty 2009 animated hit...Bizarre creations run amok in a world that looks like a gigantic tossed salad. It really is a delight to behold. Perfect family movie fare.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2013

Visually extraordinary, this rainbow-coloured 3D animated sequel set in an eco system of living food, is as whimsical as the original 2009 film, even though its plot is lumpy enough to cause indigestion

| Nov 30, 2013

The script is brimming with knowing puns, some of the technical terms, though, are so incomprehensible it's an effort to stay with the verbal inanity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2013

The comedy is far too post-modern this time to truly engage us, but it's such a riot of colourful mayhem that we're never bored.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 1, 2013