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Inventor Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader) creates a fun house of pure Jell-O for news intern Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) in the 3-D animated comedy “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.” |
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” is a breezy, witty, fun little 3-D animated fantasy about a young scientist who invents a machine that can convert water into food and has it rain from the sky over his town.
But before anyone can shout something humanitarian like “Now we can feed the world’s hungry!,” the conniving mayor (voiced by horror film icon Bruce Campbell) instantly fixates on the food-making weather machine as a tourist attraction that can save the faltering local economy.
Like the business-minded mayor of Amity Island in “Jaws,” he lives to regret his commercial priorities.
“Cloudy” is an expansion of the popular children’s book of the same title (written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett), and has been rendered in eye-popping, brightly colored, richly detailed 3-D imagery from Sony Pictures Animation. (Read more…)