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10/15/09
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
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Reviews Counted:112
Fresh:95
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Quirky humor, plucky characters and solid slapstick make this family comedy a frenetically tasty time at the movies.
Rated: U [See Full Rating]
Genre: Childrens
Theatrical Release:18-09-2009
Synopsis: Inspired by Ron and Judi Barrett's beloved children's book of the same name, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS follows inventor Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader) and brainy weathergirl Sam... [More]
Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Bruce Campbell
Director: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Reviews for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
As a hyperbolic exposé of unnatural obesity and environmental destruction, in many ways this serves as an unacknowledged prequel to the post-apocalyptic nightmare envisaged in Wall-E. Chew (and choke) on that!
09/18/09
Bright, silly and a good shout to entertain the whole family.
09/18/09
Top Critic‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ may not scale the artistic heights of a ‘Finding Nemo’ or ‘Wall-E’, but it’s the most satisfying and original non-Pixar CG animated movie to hit screens in a while.
09/18/09
Top CriticCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs lacks the charm of some other recent offerings in this genre, but it has enough grown-up gags to keep the adults amused and their children will laugh themselves silly.
09/18/09
Top CriticA veritable buffet of the bland and the bizarre, the sweet and the sour, and all tastes are catered for along the way.
09/18/09
Top CriticThis is a sweet morsel that’s good for your health. Fight the power and tuck in.
09/18/09
Once you get past the ridiculous title and bombardment of moral messages, this is definitely worth a watch. Be warned though - you'll exit the cinema feeling surprisingly full and not wanting to touch spaghetti or hamburgers for a very long time!
09/18/09
By the end even kids suffering ADDs will be overwhelmed as Flint and the gang take on a gloriously surreal buffet of predatory giant chickens and psychopathic jelly babies. Weird but very wonderful.
09/18/09
The simple plot is as overextended as a compulsive eater’s waistline – but any movie bold enough to warn popcorn-munching filmgoers about obesity has to be applauded. Hell, they might not even finish the bucket…
09/18/09
It is harmless, entertaining fun for under-12s, and a worthy follow-up to Surf’s Up from Sony Pictures Animation. It’s not challenging Pixar just yet, or even Warner Brothers, but at least it’s heading in the right direction.
09/18/09
A mouth-wateringly magnificent comedy that's as good as any toon made in the last five years.
09/18/09
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs serves up a riot of colour, absurdity and fun.
09/18/09
The film continues in meal-monsoon mode for 90 minutes with scant variation.
09/18/09
Writer/directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord have fashioned a state of the art kids’ movie primed with old-fashioned values.
09/18/09
What an unexpected treat this turns out to be – as messy and riotous as a kindergarten food- fight, with teacher tied up in the corner.
09/18/09
Top CriticIt's not The Incredibles, but it has a solid gag ratio and good animation (the spaghetti tornado is spectacular).
09/18/09
It’s rare to find an animated film that hasn’t come out of Pixar’s talented hands which contains so much to gush over, but Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is something you won’t regret sinking your teeth into.
09/18/09
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is one of the funniest films of the year - a hugely enjoyable, superbly written and brilliantly animated comedy that'll send you out of the cinema grinning from ear to ear.
09/18/09
Meatballs is not just a great family film - it's a great film full stop, and would even work as a date movie.
09/18/09
Latest News for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
September 27, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Audiences Still Hungry For Meatballs
Turning into the sleeper hit of the fall, Sony's blockbuster 3D toon Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs easily ruled the North American box office posting the second smallest... More...
September 20, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: It's Sunny Skies for Cloudy
Moviegoers chose 3D fun over Hollywood stars as the animated comedy Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs powered ahead of expectations to debut at number one grossing more than the... More...
September 17, 2009:
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This week at the movies, we've got a possessed student body (Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried); an oddball snitch (The Informant!, starring Matt Damon and... More...
September 14, 2009:
Phil Lord and Chris Miller Like it Cloudy 
You wouldn't think "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" would be a book that could stand on its own as a feature-length movie -- but for Phil Lord and Chris Miller, putting it... More...
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