Movie Review: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Movie Review: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

After doing some research I took myself to the Carmike Cinema today to see Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. For those of you not in the know, its adapted from the children's book of the same name. However I'm pretty sure that the movie bears little resemblance to the book that was written by Judi and Robert Barrett back in the late 70s.

I'll pretend to forget all that and concentrate on what was really a funny, heartwarming film that didn't get too depressing, much like Up! did at the beginning.

The film is Flint Lockwood's story. A tale of a young scientist who always gets it wrong, but one day creates a machine that makes it rain food. That's better than some of his other inventions, like spray on shoes, ratbirds, and a machine that lets you know what monkeys are saying. The raining food invention puts Swallow Falls on the map and the mayor played by Bruce Campbell, changes the name of the town to Chewandswallow.

The story has quite a cast of characters, from a national news weather girl, Sam Sparks, to the town's police officer, Earl, played by Mr. T. Not to mention the mascot of the Sardine company that once was the town's main industry. You'll fall in love with all of them.

This is one film that's suitable for the whole family. Even when you get to the parts that are a bit more...dramatic, the kids shouldn't be bothered. Like when the invention goes awry causing the food to grow larger as well as a huge funnel cloud of spaghetti and meatballs that nearly destroys the town.

Its up to Flint then to save the day, and like all good animated tales, he does and he gets the girl and his father even tells him that he's proud of him.

Everyone feels good. Oh and the 3-D is fantastic!

This is another animated winner for 2009. Get yourself to a theater to see this one while you can.