CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (U, 95 mins) *** Featuring the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Benjamin Bratt, Andy Samberg, Terry Crews, James Caan, Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, Neil Patrick Harris. Directors: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn

Fast food will kill you – literally tear you limb from limb – in this computer-animated sequel.

Luckily, the marauding cheeseburgers and tacos are consigned to a faraway island. Let us be thankful their sesame seed buns and corn tortilla shells turn to mush in brine.

While the first film, released in 2009, was loosely based on the children’s book of the same name, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 is an original concept.

However, the scriptwriters are clearly big fans of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 box office behemoth Jurassic Park. The scene in which Sam Neill and the children attempt to out run a herd of Gallimimus is created here with a stampede of food-animal hybrids called Bananostriches. The iconic image of ripples on the surface of a glass of water heralding the arrival of T-Rex here becomes the rippling fat of a supporting character’s generously proportioned belly to signal the entrance of the monstrous Tacodile.

Thankfully, some of the wildlife is friendly, including Shrimpanzees, Buffaloafs and dark green Watermelophants. It gives a whole new meaning to playing with your food.

The film boasts some decent laughs and a flimsy plot that doesn’t tarry too long on logic.

Vocal performances are as lively as the rollicking action sequences, while Faris’s plucky heroine emphasises the underlying theme about man’s destruction of the natural world when she asserts, “We should be studying the food animals not killing them!”