Great Premise, First 50 Minutes......And Then

Rating: 5/10 (14 January 2010)

I really enjoyed the first 50 minutes of this film but the last 30-some are so silly and overdone that it dampened my enthusiasm for the movie. I wouldn't watch it again, especially not with all the other much-better animated films in recent years.
What happens in the end is the problem that occurs in many modern-day action movies: too much. Things get so frenetic here, so loud and crazy that it simply becomes too much. Action can get boring when it's non-stop and over 10 straight minutes of it. Here, it's like the last 30 and by then, you no longer care what happens.....just get the darn movie over.
Too bad, because this had a great premise and a couple of characters you cared about, like "Flint" and "Steve." A third man character, the weather girl, "Sam," was okay but much like the film: interesting and likable at first, but slowly less so. She didn't really add a lot to the film with the lame romance and PC angle. Speaking of the latter, "Mr. T.'s," cop character "Earl" was over-the-top and insulting in its stereotypical PC mode.
Overall, a film which could have super but carried away and wound up just a big, giant mess, just like all the food splattering on the people.