Do you like endless food puns? Following an initial teaser for the follow to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a new full-length version has landed and it is chock full of them. While directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller had plenty of heart in the 2009 hit, this look seems to stray heavily into the children-only arena, but hopefully that’s just the marketing tactic here and we’ll be surprised by the full film.
While Lord and Miller off crafting their great-looking Lego film for WB, Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn have stepped in to helm, with a script by the Horrible Bosses duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. While it’ll be attached to Despicable Me 2 this weekend, one can check out the new trailer below for the film featuring Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Benjamin Bratt, Terry Crews, Will Forte and Kristen Schaal.
Synopsis:
Inventor Flint Lockwood’s genius is finally being recognized as he’s invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. Chester’s right-hand-gal – and one of his greatest inventions – is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick). It’s always been Flint’s dream to be recognized as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids – “foodimals!” With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again!
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 arrives on September 27th.