CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
4 out of 5 stars

flynt: "so... what do you guys want for breakfast?"

steve the monkey: "GUMMI BEARS!"

LOL i went into this movie thinking it would be just so-so, but i ended up liking it very much! plus...appropriate for a holiday watch, doncha think? ;)

if you've ever read the classic children's tale of the same title, you'll know that it's about food that rains from the sky. there's more to this story though: flynt lockwood has been obsessed with inventing his whole life, ever since he was a lil' kid. (he invented the spray-on shoe to save his classmates from the untied shoe epidemic! problem: they don't come off...) seems like every invention he comes up with, there's a backlash of some sorts. so when flynt actually SUCCESSFULLY activates his raincloud food generator machine, delicious cheeseburgers come flying down from the sky! his hometown of swallow falls LOVES flynt for the first time, but as they keep making more and more requests from the machine, the food keeps getting bigger and BIGGER and BIGGER...

this one tells a great story about the consequences of altering one's environment as well as keeping up your dream, no matter how crazy it seems. yes, it is animation, but it's done quite well. i LOVE the happy colors and animated food, plus steve the monkey is my favorite character! (he's this talking monkey that's got a thought translator attached to him...another one of flynt's crazy inventions) i would have liked to see this one in 3D since there's so much movement esp. with the food falling from the sky! ain't nothin' wrong with that... ;)

p.s. GREAT old school animation sequence for the end credit! (a la style of school house rock...LOVES it!)