Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Reviews
September 21, 2009
Determined to have their cake and eat it too, writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller first invite us to revel in ice cream mountains and nacho cheese fountains, then clobber us with ham-handed nutritional moralism.
September 21, 2009
Could be interpreted as a commentary on the potential perils of genetically engineered 'Frankenfood,' but this unpretentious movie doesn't sweat the message.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
September 21, 2009
When in movie history has the girl ever revealed her true self and become more attractive to the hero by putting on spectacles and pulling back her hair?
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| Original Score: 3/4
September 20, 2009
The fantastic journey stems from the kids' housebound daydreaming - dinner time is inescapable, after all.
Original Score: 4/5
September 20, 2009
Dine on the 3-D if you can. Unlike most three-dimensional productions, the 3-D here enhances the story and the excellent animation but doesn't overwhelm them.
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| Original Score: 5/5
September 20, 2009
An amusing kidflick that entertains while serving up enlightening food-for-thought.
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| Original Score: 8/10
September 19, 2009
Wonderfully inspired - will probably be anathema only to vegetarians.
September 19, 2009
One of those equal-opportunity exercises that provides as much merriment for adults as for kids.
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| Original Score: 3/4
September 19, 2009
It's not only a super cute adventure, perfectly appropriate for kids of all ages, but the vocal talent is a bountiful buffet, to say the least.
September 18, 2009
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a thoroughly delightful and hilarious 3-D animated comedy that'll definitely get you craving giant pancakes, gummi bears and yes, said meat.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
September 18, 2009
It's unlike any animated feature you're going to see this year or any other. It's way out there in terms of concept and story, but in a good way.
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| Original Score: 4/5
September 18, 2009
While 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' would probably still be entertaining in a conventional 2D format, the story is a natural for 3D.
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| Original Score: 4/5
September 18, 2009
So what could be better than an endless supply of jellybeans and ice cream? Only a multiplex permanently stocked with smart, sweetly silly family films like this one.
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| Original Score: 4/5
September 18, 2009
It's a veritable moral smorgasbord. Not.
Original Score: 2/5
September 18, 2009
It takes an iron stomach to watch this stuff and not feel nauseated.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
September 18, 2009
No comedy should come bogged down with so many Important Life Lessons.
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| Original Score: 2/4
September 18, 2009
Lord & Miller have found a way to make smart film about our culture of excess without losing the massive pancakes, swimming pools of nacho cheese and tornados of pasta.
September 18, 2009
Food has never been funnier than it is in the spirited, animated family film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
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| Original Score: B+
September 18, 2009
But it's fun, it has some good messages and what kid won't enjoy seeing pancakes flatten a roof and an ice-cream blizzard that you can eat while you play in it? Especially when it's presented in colorful 3-D splendor?
Original Score: 4/5
September 18, 2009
...pure fun, start to finish. Fun. Laughing-my-ass-off, it's-raining-steak-and-gumballs, I-want-Steve-the-monkey-for-my-very-own fun. There was no huge life lesson, unless you count "diving into a giant gumball hill and eating it all makes you barf". Yeah
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| Original Score: 8/10