Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

[Qrazy]

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810015820/trailer

[Spinal]

Giant food falling from the sky in 3-D? Sure, why not.

[Mara]

I loved this book as a kid.

EDIT: Which, as usual, leads me to watch the trailer and pound my head against the table.

[Spinal]

EDIT: Which, as usual, leads me to watch the trailer and pound my head against the table.

I confess that after sitting through films like Igor and The Wild my standards are low.

[Qrazy]

I loved this book as a kid.

EDIT: Which, as usual, leads me to watch the trailer and pound my head against the table.

Yeah I loved it too. You know who could have done the book justice? Frederic Back.

[Mysterious Dude]

Yeah I loved it too. You know who could have done the book justice? Frederic Back.
Oh my god, yes.

It's so typical that they had to add a scientific explanation for the food falling from the sky. Midichlorians ftw!

[monolith94]

Ugh. Awful. Just awful.

[Watashi]

This movie was awesome.

Ignore the stupid trailers because they show you nothing.

Up there with Kung Fu Panda as one of the best non-Pixar films of the decade.

I was really surprised how much I loved this one.

[Henry Gale]

Having my expectations pretty high because of the great response to this over the last few weeks didn't stop it from absolutely sucking in my mind through a fun vacuum and then spitting it back into my face repeatedly for 90 minutes.

Incredible. I'd definitely call it this year's Speed Racer and maybe the most phenomenal 3D experience I've had (and there's been some great competition even in past months). The design, as different as it was from the book or as strange as it initially seemed, worked beautifully. The animation is always fluid and alive, and the cast does as good a job as any time I've ever heard known-actors do voices for something like this.

There's nothing I can ever think to say bad about this film. It's far too much fun. In fact, even people who hate fun will probably watch this and say, "Oh ok, I guess that's what I've been missing..." and be better for it.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Eh. Took my son to see this, and frankly I was bored. The film had some great 3-D moments, and a few funny scenes, but it didn't sell me on the relationships. They could have done much more with the father/son disconnect, and the budding romance between the leads. Both were really flat and hurt any lasting impression the film had beyond the visual showboating.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Good bump. I actually saw this the other day and thought it was pretty good. Nothing particularly revelatory, but it had a couple of very funny moments. I really liked the Dad.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Good bump. I actually saw this the other day and thought it was pretty good. Nothing particularly revelatory, but it had a couple of very funny moments. I really liked the Dad.

The dad was definitely the highlight. I've never seen my son laugh so hard at a movie as he did when the dad was trying to figure out how to email his son.

[KK2.0]

I don't think it was great, but definitely worth watching, delightful and imaginative.

Yes, the email scene had me laughing loud too, loved the Jello scene as well.

[Rowland]

Not as sophisticated or ambitious as Up often was, but probably funnier, less sickly sentimental, and certainly more thematically relevant for the kiddie group it's aimed at. No easy pop-culture gags, its humor instead largely deriving from borderline-surreal absurdism that is as consistently hilarious as any recent comedy I can recall, the vocal performances are a delight, its visuals are vibrant and dynamic, its parody of various disaster flick tropes sharply drawn, and the consumerism satire, right down to a machine dervied to toss all excess food outside the town behind a buckling dam (out of sight, out of mind), is spot-on. I may be underrating this.

[Spaceman Spiff]

You had a hard-on for the journalist, admit it.