YMMV / Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

First Movie | Second Movie

• Contested Sequel: On one hand, you have people who find it a decent enough follow-up to the first film, with a good plot, nice visuals, clever visual puns and unpacking Flint's relationship with his dad and friends a bit. Others see this movie as a really painful case of Sequelitis, citing that characterizations are botched or Flanderized, many of the characters (beyond Flint, Sam, Chester, and Barb, at least) are wasted or useless, and generally just marks the beginning of the franchise going downhill.
• Demographically Inappropriate Humour:
  Chester V: It was never gonna turn off the machine! A 'BS' USB? Hello! Your machine is what I wanted all along.
• Fan Nickname: The film is sometimes known as "Food Puns: The Movie".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The film's premise involves a group of characters traveling to an island inhabited by living creatures made of food. In 2020, the indie game Bugsnax was released with a similar premise. Both stories even have a plot point where the characters learn that their initial beliefs about the food creatures were completely wrong, albeit for completely opposite reasons.
  • During the Creative Closing Credits, the Foodimals are frightened about a movie that involves their kind being prepared. Fast forward to three years later, and Sony releases Sausage Party into theaters—one of the co-stars in that film was Bill Hader. The film involved a scene with food being actually prepared.
• Love to Hate: Chester V is a self-centered, despicable Corrupt Corporate Executive with no redeeming qualities and constantly mistreats everyone around him, including Barb, but he acts with great charisma, has a hammy personality, and too many comedic moments to make him truly hateable.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Don't be surprised if you see the "Leak in the Boat" scene get mentioned or posted when talking about video game leaks (or other types of leaks).
  • Earl's speech of "It's enough to make a grown man cry" became a significant, appropriate moment to use for comedic purpose.
  • The butter frog has become a popular subject for comedic edits.
  • Coffee table! ^ExplanationIn the invention montage, Flint shows off an "invisible coffee table" which his dad immediately trips over. A clip circulating around online cuts out the "invisible" part, so Flint just joyfully announces "COFFEE TABLE!".
• Moral Event Horizon: It's obvious from the start that Chester V plans to manipulate Flint into getting the FLDSMDFR in order to make his new food bar, which seems very in line for a greedy inventor that wants to maintain his grip on the food industry and would likely take the credit for Flint's invention. That all changes when he kicks Flint down a deep drop into the river below because he has no more use for him, reveals his Evil Plan is to turn the fully sentient food animals into food bars and decides to have Flint's friends be shredded by the very machine he plans to kill those animals with, and even after Flint gives into his demands, he still wants to drop them in.
• Ugly Cute: Even the Foodimals that aren't "conventionally" cute have plenty of charm of their own.

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