Tasty

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2009)

'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' was a popular children's book in the 1970's. It has been adapted to the big screen in this animation feature.
Swallow Falls, a small island in the Atlantic has only one thing to boast of: Sardines. With time, exports die out, people get bored of eating sardines all day long and despair settles on the town.
Enter Flint Lockwood, a regular nerd with big dreams in his eyes, who has been trying to invent something useful since his childhood. He finally succeeds, inventing a machine that starts raining food from the sky. What happens after wards forms the crux of the story. The screenplay continues on the innovative theme in the story and bombards us with delectable food items falling from the sky, until greed settles in. How Flint resolves the situation that arises from this is handled pretty funnily.
The visuals of 'Cloudy...' are different, unlike what we normally see in a Pixar movie. The food looks delicious, but that's just about it. The cast, led by Bill Hader and Anna Faris, does a good job. James Caan as Flint's father, and Bruce Campbell as the mayor are excellent.
Final Verdict: 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' is a simple movie, uncomplicated by the regular 'deeper meaning of life' fundas of Pixar. Good for a home viewing.