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80It is the inventive design of the many creatures that feels so fresh. The detail is so rich, and so dense, that you wish some of the frames would freeze so you had more time for savoring.
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Sep 26, 201380Cloudy 2 is loud, weird and chaotic — just as kids like it.
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80Picks up where the first film left off, literally, and offers at least as many laughs (if not more for adults), retaining the goofy attitude. Cameron and Pearn throw a lot at the wall, just like their predecessors, and most of it sticks.
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80The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise takes its comic cues from The Muppets and Pee Wee's Playhouse, kids' shows that ripen as their audience matures.
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75It's a tasty buffet of food gags, both visual and verbal. When they say "We're toast," they really mean it.
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75Charming enough on its own not to feel like just reheated leftovers.
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75Unlike so many sequels, this fun-filled 3D adventure is sure to entertain younger kids but also charm the adults who will be accompanying them to the multiplexes.
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Sep 25, 201371The sequel quadruples the recipe, with gags on top of gags on top of gags in a way only animation could achieve. Like a foodie “Jurassic Park” conjured up by Tex Avery, “Cloudy 2″ is a sight to behold … as long as your brain hasn’t turned to mush by the halfway point.
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70While it was often all over the place, it worked, because directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller ladled out the chaos with such charm.
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70At times it felt as if this film might challenge Pixar’s decade-long reign, but that promise wanes. Instead, the movie is sometimes so strange, colorful and wildly cute that it may end up becoming a “Yellow Submarine” for a new generation.
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70The film retains much of what worked about the first film, and it brings a similarly smart, patient, visually striking approach to the gags.
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70It might not possess the robust charm of its 2009 predecessor, but Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 nevertheless gets an amusing boost from a genetically modified, marauding menagerie of Tacodiles, Watermelophants, Sasquashes and assorted other "Foodimals" that have overtaken the once-tranquil island of Swallow Falls.
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70What Erica Rivinoja, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s script lacks in lingering nutritional value, it compensates for with amusing food puns. If nothing else, the pic’s zany tone and manic pace are good for a quick-hit sugar high.
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67It's the only chance for small children to drag parents to the movies until November, so knock yourself out, kiddies.
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63If you rely on films to keep your kids entertained and distracted for an hour and a half, Meatballs is a masterwork, a visual stunner that manages to break from animation's current 3-D rut.
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60It aims to entertain, to offer a few tame chuckles for parents and children to enjoy in a purely Saturday-morning way. And it accomplishes that.
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Sep 27, 201350Unfortunately, the film promises more fun and laughs than it delivers, and this meal tastes like too many that have gone before it.
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50A humorous yet unfocused romp, so unwilling to settle on a single theme that hyperactivity medication should be handed out with the 3-D glasses.
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50It’s another brightly rendered effort, but, as the title indicates, a lot of the real creativity seems to have been used up the first time around.
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Sep 26, 201350This sequel strenuously works to form a total inversion of the first movie's relationship with food.
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50What a pity, then, that almost no imagination has been expended on the narrative.
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40It’s only when the sentient snacks are front and center that this middling sequel to the 2009 animated hit truly comes alive.
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40For both kids and adults, CWCM2 is little more than a vague memory as soon as it’s over.
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Sep 26, 201337Kids will chuckle, for sure. But parents who were pleasantly surprised by the original film’s intelligence will miss Lord and Miller’s guiding hands, as what once felt so funny now leaves a stale taste.
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25Whelk, I hope the makers of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs earned a nice celery, but I’m afraid they made a hash of things. A hash seasoned with oy sauce.
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