I loved the original Cloudy and I was really looking forward to watching the sequel, even though most critical reviews said it wasn't as good. They were right, but I still enjoyed watching it. The island of Swallow Falls is evacuated after the FLDSMDFR is deactivated in order to facilitate cleaning up all the random giant food. Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) is offered a job by his idol, inventions guru Chester V (Will Forte), at Live Corp, but finds it frustratingly difficult to get his new mentor's approval. Then, Chester informs him that Live Corp's scientists on Swallow Falls have all disappeared while searching for Flint's machine. He volunteers to go back and find it, bringing Sam Sparks (Anna Faris), Manny the Cameraman (Benjamin Bratt), Earl (Terry Crews), Brent (Andy Samburg), his dad (James Caan), and Steve the Monkey (Neil Patrick Harris) with him. They discover that the food has evolved into hybrid animals, but there are other dangers lying in wait, as well.
The food puns start to get a little old after about thirty minutes but there's no denying the visual beauty of the film, and the inventiveness of the animation. Some of the foodimals look good enough to eat, although since this is a children's movie nobody actually eats anything. The replay value here won't be for the story or even the humor, but for the sheer amount of things to look at once they get to the island.
And Barry. I'd watch it again just for that little guy. He looks adorable and I bet he would smell amazing while being cuddled.
And now I feel like a monster for the sliced strawberries in my fridge. Dammit.
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