Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 parents guide

No surprises for a PG: no swearing and nothing scary.

Our estimate: fine from about 7. Rated PG.

Scare

Not scary

Jump scares

A couple

One or two sudden jolts.

Gore

No gore

Violence

Some violence

Some fighting or peril.

Sex and nudity

None noted

Language

None noted

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What is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 about?

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.

Cast and crew

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