Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

The sequel earns mild but divided approval: visually inventive and packed with food-pun gags that genuinely land for younger audiences, but critics split sharply over whether it recaptures what made the original distinctive. Those who missed directors Lord and Miller's sharper instincts found the film loud and overstuffed; a smaller camp thought it matched or even surpassed its predecessor.