Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

That's right, a cartoon. I mean an animated feature. A little detour from the horror, porn-like gore fests and adult comedies we normally deal with. So, why? What am I doing reviewing a kids movie? Does it have adult undertones, no. Does it have adult humor, not really. Does it have some cool animation, yes. Did it make me laugh a lot, yes. And that's why this movie is being reviewed - I often lament to myself that movies just don't make me laugh anymore. Quite often I see the humor and I'm amused, but not much makes me laugh out loud.  This did, several times.

Mustache...

Meatballs (as I will call it from now on) is a weird little movie carrying several little themes - friendship, family, achieving your dreams, being yourself. But mostly it's just funny. In a nutshell, the key character, Flint, invents a machine that can make food from water. While trying to draw electricity directly from the power station to make it work properly, the machine flies off into the sky and stays there like a little satellite. Soon after it rains hamburgers. To the people of the town, stuck eating sardines for years, this is mana from heaven - twice as tasty but just as farcical. Flint is ordered to make it rain food every day, for every meal, so the town can promote themselves as the new tourist mecca of gastronomy. Naturally it goes butt up and the machine begins making bigger and bigger food. So it's up to Flint and his friends to fly into a food storm and save the world.

I have the voice of Mr T. Game over.

It's a movie of two distinct halves. The very amusing and entertaining first half, and the more action oriented second half. The first half is by far the more entertaining, which isn't to say the conclusion was bad...it just lost a little steam and went down the traditional 'man vs mutated foods' path. Of particular note in the humor department are the monkey (who loves mustaches), Flint, and his father - for whom everything is a fishing metaphor.

Flint and father...testing a new invention. Hair un-balder I think it was.

So that's my review. I watched this with my 2 year old and it made for a delightful distraction from disembowelments, gun shot wounds and bare breasts. We had a great time and I wager you will too.

8.5/10

A spaghetti twister. Tasty and deadly all at once.

ps. It has the voice talents of Bruce Campbell AND Mr T. That's right. So go watch it.

pps I also watched Up recently. It was good, but not as good as this movie.

A tasty serve of movie with entertainment sauce