Movie:Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris. James Caan, Mr. T. Tracy Morgan

Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller

Genre: Animation

The world's first ever animated disaster movie comes to the big screen when an outcast inventor creates a machine that rains food on his hungry town and gets the attention of the girl he’s always loved.

Release Date: 22-Oct-2009

Language: English

Distributor: Sony Pictures

My Comment/Review:

Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris. James Caan, Mr. T. Tracy Morgan

One thing you cannot deny is that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is original. The idea of food falling from the sky, although something we can only dream of, is quite a sight in reality; or rather, cinematic reality.

Flint Lockwood (Hader), an inventor with a good heart but crazy ideas, creates a machine that makes food out of water. However, things go amiss and food starts raining from heaven. At first it is seen as a good thing and the townspeople are happy. It brings them hope but when the machine starts to take on a life of its own, Lockwood has to again find a way to save the day.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, based on a children's book, is interlaced with humour and is great family fun with its believable characters who are colourful and nicely fleshed out.

We have, for example, Flint’s dad Tim (Caan), who reminds us a lot of technologically challenged people we might know; and Sam Sparks (Faris), the aspiring weathergirl who actually has more to her than meets the eye.

The animation is top-notch with the scenes becoming more elaborate and intense as the rain of food begins to overwhelm the small town.

A film with a heap of morals for people in general, young and old alike, it touches on aspects of wastage, gluttony, greed, family unity, understanding and so much more that you would have to watch it to really grasp all that it has to tell amidst the hilarity of the story.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is worth watching once and even twice - but with all that food on display, it will depend on whether or not you have the stomach for it.

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