Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - of 5

Employing the voice talents of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, and Andy Samberg, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs was a fun little movie that could've been great if it wouldn't have gotten kind of weird at the end. The first half of the movie is quite funny at times, but it tends to taper off as the movie delves into more action/adventure territory.

Flint Lockwood (Hader) is an inventor that never seems to get his inventions to work right, and his father (Caan) is wanting him to join the family business bait shop. Flint never gives up on his dreams and accidentally builds a machine that somehow manipulates weather into making food fall from the sky. Incidentally, this saves the town Flint lives in as it's a tourist destination that had been dying in recent years.

This leads to alot of fun scenes with food falling from the sky and how fantastic that could be (when controlled). My favorite scene of the movie is when he builds a jello house to impress Sam (Faris). My girlfriend and I both agreed that we wish we could play in a whimsical jello house like that.

As the movie continues, all of Flint's newfound success leads to his ego beginning to build more and more into dangerous egomaniacal territory. The moral of the story is to not let your ego get so big that you can't control hurting people around you. While I liked the lesson learned, the ending kind of went off the deep end with food fighting Flint and his friends (cooked whole chickens fighting like ninjas, etc.).

If you've read the book, I've heard the movie veers quite far away from the source material so maybe prepare yourself to watch it as a totally different story altogether so you're not too let down. In the end, it's worth a rental but unless your kids love it, I wouldn't put it on the buy list.