Today I saw the movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" in theaters. The movie, based on the 1978 book of the same title, tells about an island in the Atlantic where the weather comes 3 times a day: at breakfast, lunch and dinner. The movie serves as a backstory of how that came to be.
The animated movie is about Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader), a young inventor on the island of Swallow Falls whose inventions are not so good. His father (voice of James Caan) wants him to work in the bait and tackle shop on the island, but Flint wants to keep inventing. He finally decides to invent something to solve the problem of the only food on the island being sardines: a machine that converts water vapor into food.
At the unveiling of a new segment of the island, Flint sneaks away with his invention to plug into a higher source of electricity and in the process destroys the entire attraction and launches his machine into the sky. Eventually it starts raining cheeseburgers, and the town is pleased.
Soon there are lots of requests for different food to rain from the sky, so Flint builds a communication device. The Mayor (voice of Bruce Campbell) renames the town ChewAndSwallow and decides to make it a tourist attraction. Flint also finds love with weather girl Sam Sparks (voice of Anna Faris), a perky girl who hides her intelligence. But problems arise and the machine that converts water into food goes haywire and rains huge food, so it's up to Flint and Sam to stop it.
The movie had a beautiful look to it, and all the voice actors were first rate. I particularly enjoyed Mr. T as a police officer who is very athletic. He had some very good lines. Plus Hader and Faris made a cute animated couple and they were just so sweet with each other.
My one problem with the movie is that the plot was a little rushed and things jumped from one thing to the next rather quickly. That said, it was still very good, and during the end credits I just started singing along to Miranda Cosgrove's song for the movie, "Raining Sunshine", which I posted in an earlier post. Overall, I will give "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" ***1/2 out of ****.
Some other movies I would like to see this fall:
1. "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
2. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"
3. "Love Happens"
4. "Fame"
And I will let you know of any others!
Love y'all,
***-Lily-***
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