A tepid dish

Rating: 4/10 (5 December 2011)

Apply the incredible advances in three dimensional CGI rendering to a pretty good children?s book and you get?a pretty good movie. CwCM takes the central idea of the kid?s book and tries to inflate it to a full-length feature film by using anti-obesity, pro-environment and worldwide Armageddon themes. The heavy themes and the cacophonous Foley editing quickly becomes a bit much leading to some relief when its 90 minute running time has evaporated. However, like food avalanche that destroys the town/island somewhere in the mess are some tasty nuggets including Mr. T?s voice-over work (although his lines are fairly repetitive) and some clever food-themed riffs. The noise and the funny will help to distract from some truly WTF moments including a cameraman turns out to be a Guatemalan doctor, a former child star who later turns into a cooked chicken and the giant squid-sized eyes on the main characters (I understand that bigger eyes = more cute but only to a certain extent before it become creepy). In summary, wait for it on cable.