Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs [2009]
I’ve been a fan of many of the animated films that have been released in the last several years. The Incredibles [2004] and Monsters, Inc [2004] are probably my favorite animated films since the turn of the century though I did enjoy Monsters v. Aliens as well as Wall-e and Igor. However the latest animated film Cloudy with a chance of meatballs ranks up there with the plot lines of A Scanner Darkly and Ratatouille [2007]. The plot is obvious from the title of the film. An odd scientist like inventor creates a machine that can turn water in to food!
The movie sounds interesting at least at first, but then we learn that the inventor-Flint Lockwood-has a father who can’t talk with him and doesn’t understand him as well as that Flint has a crush on a local weather reporter who acts dumb even though she’s super smart! Is this what we want out of our animated films-A pretty girl who acts dumb to be accepted and a crazy inventor who doesn’t get along with his father? To make matters worse in the plot the machine that alters the DNA of the water into food breaks down near the end of the film and is creating sentient food-forms. We see whole cooked chickens walking around as if they are alive! What better Pr for vegetarians!
The film also has a happy ending-which I didn’t expect considering how the plot had gone up to that point, so it was a letdown of sorts to me to have such an ending.
Over all it’s not a bad film, just not an exciting or great film. See it when it comes out on DVD or watch it on cable.
official website-cloudy with a chance of meatballs
http://www.cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com/
Cloudy on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
