Original story, OK animation

Rating: 6/10 (3 March 2011)

An animated feature film based on the original children's book of the same title. It is the story of Flint, a geek and crazy inventor who invents a machine that turns water into any food. It is also the story of his fellow-citizens in a town surviving on the herring industry, and the story of Sam, a weather woman turned into a reported by accident.
What I liked most is the script, which is very original and crazy. Despite being so, the movie script is well presented, developed and resolved; still, the script might be difficult for small children, but the visual imagination of the film is overflowing and will captivate them anyway. What interested me most in the film was just the food theme, how food abundance is depicted with its good and bad consequences.
The film lacks of intelligent adult humor, the animation style is somewhat "chunky" and unrefined (a retro look or a more contemporary one would have suited the story better) and it is not engaging enough in general.
Is a good and enjoyable movie of the whole family.