Review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) by Matthew O — 10 Jul 2012

When Flint Lockwood's latest contraption accidentally destroys the town square and rockets up into the clouds, he thinks his inventing career is over. Then something amazing happens as delicious cheeseburgers start raining from the sky. His machine actually works! But when people greedily ask for more and more food, the machine starts to run amok, unleashing spaghetti tornadoes and giant meatballs that threaten the world!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' is the wackiest animation of 2009. Where 'UP' won over with its big heart, and 'Coralline' with technique wonder, 'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs' is just out there silliness, with great food destroying set pieces, a number of inspiring film in jokes and lovely visuals, including a jelly and ice cream set of scenes which are just beautiful. Another plus are the inspiring set of voice overs including a standout from MR T as the local policemen.

'Cloudy' may get caught up to much with what?s visually on screen, which sometimes hurts the story and characters at times, the animated adventure is still one of the most original animated features to come out in a number of years.