Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - saynomore - 10-16-2009

Great movie. Terrible title. Adult jokes. Clever and witty. Kids won't understand most of the visual jests or play on words. But they'll love the frenetic pace. In short, a young boy who worships Tesla and Edison dreams of becoming a great inventor. He accidentally invents a satelite that converts water/clouds into food. However, the satelite becomes satient as does the food. Yep, the food is about to eat the people of earth and only our young invenor can stop it. Nice story, I thought.

But the jokes are the reason to see this movie. Forget the goofy title. I laughed out loud. One gag I can share: When it rains ice cream, the kids make snow balls from the various flavors. The reporter points out to the young inventor that his pet monkey is throwing chocolate snowballs. A look askance from the inventor makes the reporter realize that isn't chocolate.

Some of the voices are: Bruse Campbell, James Caan, Anna Faris, Al Roker, Mister T, Benjamin Bratt, and Neal Patrick Harris (as the monkey). Believe me, you'll love this movie. It may look like it's for kids in the trailers, but the humor will hook the adults.

AC

P.S. No, I was not paid to like this movie. It was raining out so I decided to make this movie a part of a double feature after watching Surrogates. I figured I'd leave once the movie got corny. It never did. I laughed out loud throughout and grinned all the way home in the rain.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Tony H - 10-16-2009

i am glad to hear someone review this on the board. I wanrted to see it...because it is in 3D and I am a 3D fanatic. I held off though until people from the board chimed in on how enjoyable the film is as a whole.

Thanks AC!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - webby - 10-16-2009

The movie had to be called "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"... it's been a very popular children's book for decades.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - GeraldRice - 10-21-2009

A couple of the jokes I think would go over most people's heads: when the cop (played by Mr. T) is running with his wife and child on the toast and he leaps, busting through a giant taco was taken from a movie called, "The Toughest Man in the World" or something like that where T was in a toughman contest, couldn't go over the wall at the end of the toughman race and busted through it. Crap, I forgot the other. But I did like how the news reported that the food weather systems would attack national monuments around the world first then everywhere else. Oh, and the facedown snow angels.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Libby - 11-08-2009

webby Wrote:The movie had to be called "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"... it's been a very popular children's book for decades.

I LOVED this book! I didn't see the movie because the book might have been ruined for me, but the movie does sound good after all!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - GeraldRice - 11-08-2009

Libby Wrote:I LOVED this book! I didn't see the movie because the book might have been ruined for me, but the movie does sound good after all!

I may or may not have heard of the book, but the movie was excellent.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Scott Miller - 02-15-2010

Big thumbs up from me; the movie is hilarious. The pace is manic, the jokes are screwball and clever, the voice talent great and I thought the visuals were different enough to separate from most CGI out there. This one is good for the whole family.