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Generally favorable reviews- based on 111 Ratings

  • Starring: Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell
  • Summary: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will be the most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain. Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creates something that he hopes will improve everyone's life. At the very least, it has a drastic effect on the weather. (Sony Pictures) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 24
  2. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. Very likely the most fun your family will have this month.
  2. Reviewed by: Matthew Sorrento
    80
    Wise and respectful of its audience, "Cloudy" thus never stops the fun.
  3. Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    60
    The year’s 3-D deluge continues: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is an amusingly loopy kids’ meal about a small-town inventor.
  4. Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
    25
    A dead-serious piece of activist filmmaking.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 52
  2. Negative: 5 out of 52
  1. Matheww.
    10
    Aged 15 it was not aimed at me but this film is ultimately watchable at a very very high level.
  2. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" doesn't take itself too seriously, but childishly. But the film uses it with pure love and joy, which makes it hilarious and entertaining. Expand
  3. I called it a rarity because of many aspects - very few films carry the easygoing nature of the film, and the comedian-studded casting, it's surprisingly fun, it's all about food and (best of all) it's as weird as it gets. After watching it, you can proudly say that you haven't seen anything quite like it before but you won't see anything quite like it either. Expand
  4. The only way to adequately describe this film is odd...really odd. It goes beyond quirky and verges absolute nutbaggery. It starts promisingly, and has some really nice effects, but at some point the plot takes a dive off a cliff. But maybe that's what the creators of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs were going for - an absolute rejection of the conventional fantasy animation. It's easily among the most surreal film experiences I've ever seen, and that has it's charm, up to a point. But it would be nice to have a bit more characterisation in the mix as well. Worth seeing if only for a jelly castle and spaghetti twisters being realised on screen. Expand

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