Great visuals but lacking in story

Rating: 3/10 (12 August 2010)

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs is an animated comedy. This movie was pretty boring and plain ridiculous (even for an animated film). I know its a kid movie but the plot was so weird and not realistic. Because most of the time, they are missing the heart and inspiration that Pixar has. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs is one of those animated films. It's missing the heart and there isn't much inspiration put into the film. Its pretty predictable and very easy to tell what will happen and how the film will end. This is the story of a scientist named Flint (Bill Hader). He is a likable character. The problem with his inventions are that none of them actually work. He also works at his dad's(James Caan) work. His inventions blow until he invents a machine that causes food to rain from the sky.
Flint meets a newscaster(voiced by Anna Farris) who he soon falls for. The film is funny at sometimes but in general its really not. And the movie keeps your attention for the most part. But in the last half hour, the film gets awfully stupid. There is a scene in which Flint, Sam, the newscaster, and a retarded Sardine's representative (Andy Samburg)are going into a huge ball of food. Eventually, pizza slices try to blow them up. And once they get in the cave, these creepy looking turkeys come alive and try to kill them. That is how stupid the movie is.
I thought the movie could have added more and could have used Mr. T's character and his son more. Some of the other characters were just boring and not that great. Don't let the critics and ratings fool you, this movie is not that great