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The Insecurity of Chester V

posted 10 years ago by Benjamin_406
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Many of you see Chester V as the movie's villain that wants to prove to us film audiences the moral of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 as you have to be ruthless and destructive to everyone around you to get what you want. But to some of us, Chester actually doesn't know how to live well with other people, ever since he was bullied in his childhood days.

Do you see him as someone with some untended emotional issue?

(By the way, would it be better if Flint Lockwood actually kills Chester V through his heroic actions instead of the spider cheeseburger - right before all the good guys celebrate that way?)

[–] vortexrider 8 years ago

Chester V is obviously supposed to be Steve Jobs. It is a very tasteless (no pun intended on my part) joke and parody of a man, who may not even have been a nice person in life but who was already deceased by the time of CWACOM 2.

If they actually emphasized Chester V's emotional issues and caused him to have some change of heart in the end then it would have been forgiveable because even if it was a parody of Steve Jobs then at least the message could have been "well, deep inside he was a nice person who had problems." And that's it. Not to show him eaten.

Another example of a better Steve Jobs parody as Joshua Joyce is transformers age of extinction. He actually realizes some mistakes on his part and does some good things.