Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 27, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
12
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireHelen O'HaraOct 21, 2013
Loveable - especially if you're as fond of a pun as we are - and extremely silly. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeySep 26, 2013
It 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. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanSep 26, 2013
Cloudy 2 is loud, weird and chaotic — just as kids like it. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 26, 2013
Picks 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. Read full review
80
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonSep 24, 2013
The 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. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandSep 27, 2013
It's a tasty buffet of food gags, both visual and verbal. When they say "We're toast," they really mean it. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczSep 27, 2013
Charming enough on its own not to feel like just reheated leftovers. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerSep 26, 2013
Unlike 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. Read full review
71
Film.comMatt PatchesSep 25, 2013
The 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. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 30, 2013
While it was often all over the place, it worked, because directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller ladled out the chaos with such charm. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMiriam BaleSep 26, 2013
At 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. Read full review
70
The DissolveKeith PhippsSep 25, 2013
The film retains much of what worked about the first film, and it brings a similarly smart, patient, visually striking approach to the gags. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenSep 25, 2013
It 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. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 25, 2013
What 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. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 30, 2013
It's the only chance for small children to drag parents to the movies until November, so knock yourself out, kiddies. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 3, 2014
"Cloudy 2" is undeniably dense with ideas, images, and characters but slight on anything of thematic interest at all. Read full review
63
USA TodayScott BowlesSep 26, 2013
If 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. Read full review
60
The GuardianMike McCahillOct 24, 2013
Fortunately, the animators get stuck in: the foodscape Flint's party passes through is again wittily realised, each frame sprinkled with colourful hybrid creations, from "flamangos" to "shrimpanzees". Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleyOct 24, 2013
With a large supporting cast and rapid gag-rate, ingredients are generous. But with no real plot to bind them, the pile-up of chaotic chases, repeat-on you leek puns and noisy dust-ups gradually kills the appetite. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyOct 24, 2013
For all its properly surreal mayhem, this flick isn’t quite as nimble or emotionally rounded as its predecessor. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCatherine BrayOct 22, 2013
At one point a character even ponders aloud that it’s probably best not to think too hard about how this ecology might work or whether it makes sense. Amen to that. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 25, 2013
It 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. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Dave McGinnSep 27, 2013
Unfortunately, the film promises more fun and laughs than it delivers, and this meal tastes like too many that have gone before it. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSep 26, 2013
A humorous yet unfocused romp, so unwilling to settle on a single theme that hyperactivity medication should be handed out with the 3-D glasses. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 26, 2013
It’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. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEric HendersonSep 26, 2013
This sequel strenuously works to form a total inversion of the first movie's relationship with food. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 25, 2013
What a pity, then, that almost no imagination has been expended on the narrative. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichSep 27, 2013
It’s only when the sentient snacks are front and center that this middling sequel to the 2009 animated hit truly comes alive. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisSep 25, 2013
For both kids and adults, CWCM2 is little more than a vague memory as soon as it’s over. Read full review
37
Washington PostSean O’ConnellSep 26, 2013
Kids 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. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithSep 30, 2013
Whelk, 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. Read full review
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