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Movie Review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

When I first saw a trailer for this movie attached to "Up" I thought it looked pretty entertaining. The trailer for it certainly stood out over anything else I saw a preview for that day.

Anyways, I wasn't really planning on seeing the movie in the theater until a week or so ago. I started seeing a few clip of the movie online and I thought the animation looked really well done and entertaining so I said I'd give it a shot. After asking a couple people to no avail, I ended up going with my neighbor after lunch today.

We saw the 3D version of the film, and I have to say that I thought the 3D element of it was much better than for "Up" (although with that said, I was pretty far up front for "Up" and a good distance back for this movie. The effect felt the same, but for me at least, it was much sharper and produced less strain on my eyes. Again, that could have just been due to my different seating positions (although with the "Avatar" preview on IMAX-3D I got the same minor eye strain as I did with "Up").

I actually don't really know the source material that well, but the world that was created in the film was very cool. The characters all felt fully fleshed out and you cared for them. Moreso than in the recent '9' that I saw in my opinion. Flint was an adorable nerd hero, and Sam was a surprisingly fun heroine. Voice talents all around were spot on. Mr. T's character almost stole the show for me. His character was animated so well to his voice it's kind of hard to explain.

"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" is definitely one of my favorite animated films that have come out recently, but we shall see if it is still as entertaining a second time around. B+
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