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Hello everyone! The Alpha Jan here and I am bringing you the review of the movie Slightly Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Now I went to see this movie on Sunday night with my baby sister. It was a good day to watch the movie too since it was in 3D and the movie theater wasn't packed so I got to stretch my legs out and take up as many seats as I wanted to take up. My sister thought it was awesome too.
The story is about a boy named Flint Lockwood who dreams of becoming a very popular scientist. He lives in a small fishing town in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean which is famous for their sardines. He however is very misunderstood but because of the support and love of his mother, he does his best to make something wonderfully spectacular that everyone will love him for.
After many years of failures from walking television sets to rat-birds, he has an idea to turn water molecules into delicious food since at the time he is grown up, the world has agreed all together that sardines are nasty forcing the little sardine town to eat their own sardines and all in all they are disgusted by it too. Flint tries his best to make the machine work but needs more power thus going to the power cables outside during a town event. People want him to stop since he has a reputation for messing things up but his machine actually works as cheeseburgers fall from the sky since the machine shot up into the statosphere during Flint's attempt to give the machine more power. Soon the whole world knows because Sam Sparks, a weather station intern who dreams of becoming a head weather woman, is on the scene as she reports to the world that cheeseburgers are falling from the sky. Soon there is a bigger story to behold from this with basic moral value put within it.
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Title: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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Bill Hader (Flint Lockwood)
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Anna Faris (Sam Sparks)
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James Caan (Tim Lockwood)
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Andy Samberg (Baby Brent)
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Bruce Campbell (Mayor Shellbourne)
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Mr. T (Earl Devereaux)
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Directors/Writers
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Influence: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
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Distribution: Columbia Pictures
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Release Date: September 18, 2009
Review
This is a movie based off one of the most entertaining children's books I have ever read. The other book I really liked per say children's books was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Where The Wild Things Are, which is also being turned into a movie. Anyways, this is a very good children's movie done well with the budget it was given. Maybe that is why the actors and actresses were of the lower end of the high brackett. Bill Hader is usually known to be in SNL and a lot of super-vulgar-comedy movies such as Superbad and Adventureland. Anna Faris is famous for her roles in the Scary Movie Series as well as The Hot Chick and House Bunny. The budget alone was only $100 million which is actually quite low. Despite all of this, I believe this movie delivered. It didn't cover its budget yet but it is fairly new and already is halfway through before making profit.
What I like the most about the movie was all the small and intricate forms of comedy with basic straight-forward storytelling. Pretty much, it was a true representation of making a children's book into a film. It wasn't overly dramatic, it was simple, it was entertaining, and it had wonder and awe in it. However, the little twist of today as well as keeping things up-to-date since the book was originally published back in 1978 was good too since the book and the movie are different in plot. In the book, the town of Chewandswallow has weather three times a day during breakfast, lunch, and dinner and instead of rain, sleet, and wind, they get food. However, when a flood of giant food occurs, the inhabitants have to leave Chewandswallow on boats made of bread and adapt to a new lifestyle where food doesn't come from the sky. Way different from the movie but still enchanting.
I personally think this is a very good movie to watch but you can tell it was on a limited budget which isn't bad. The movie delivered far better than other movies which got more publicity. It even beat out Jennifer's Body and that movie's screenplay was written by Diablo Cody and stars Megan Fox who a lot of people think should just be seen and not heard which is actually mean but to most people, she cannot act. I beg to say that she can act, just not up to par with a lot of the actors and actresses out in the business today. I suggest watching this movie on any day if you like enchantment or have children but if you are just going for your own peace of mind or on a date, it may be suggestable to go on the discount day or just wait till it comes out on DVD and Blu-ray...if it comes out on Blu-ray I mean.
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