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80Very likely the most fun your family will have this month.
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80Wise and respectful of its audience, "Cloudy" thus never stops the fun.
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80Cloudy is smart, insightful on a host of relationship dynamics, and filled with fast-paced action.
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Any moviegoers possessed of funny bones will laugh their fool heads off at Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
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78The sights are ingenious, impressively rendered in 3-D, and the sounds – including cheeky voice work by Mr. T, Neil Patrick Harris, and Benjamin Bratt – are a blast.
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75Ends with a big action sequence, turning into Raiders of the Lost Arby's when you wish it would serve up something less conventional. But by that time, the filmmakers have also served up a little food for thought, along with a lot of laughs.
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75A joyful romp, devoid of the tiresome pop-culture references.
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75A surprisingly savory treat, though it doesn't bear much resemblance to the charming classic children's book on which it's based.
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75It's all good, goofy fun.
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The film combines a pinch of morality with a healthy dose of humor to produce a movie that's entertaining for everyone.
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75It’s a brisk, bright, winning effort, even though it already looks sadly out of touch with the times.
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The splashy animation is well-executed but again a bit monotonous for a full-length feature.
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The movie's humor targets both kids and grown-ups with equal success, but, even with the presence of a mustache-fixated monkey, the main attraction here is the movie's vibrant 3-D animation and its perfect storm of foodie-friendly sight gags.
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70Eye-popping and mouth-watering in one, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs spins a 30-page children's book into a 90-minute all-you-can-laugh buffet.
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Goes down easy enough at first. But even at a svelte 81 minutes, this meal drags on too long.
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63There is clear definition between closer and further elements. I've seen a lot of 3-D recently, and in terms of technical quality, this is the best.
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63Fairly inventive and exceedingly manic.
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63It’s not especially filling, but it leaves a pleasant aftertaste.
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The year’s 3-D deluge continues: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is an amusingly loopy kids’ meal about a small-town inventor.
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If the filmmakers opt to make only light statements about junk food, obesity and solid waste, they at least leave the audience sated on a single serving of inspired lunacy.
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50It's the Food Network meets The Weather Channel meets . . . the Scary Doomsday Preachers Channel.
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50Leaves us with is sporadic showers of laughs for kids under 10. That's a shame, because the film could have been a delight for everyone, if only it hadn't learned to behave.
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A lumpy stew of weak characterization, lame gags, ADD-afflicted storytelling, and dazzling visual.
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A dead-serious piece of activist filmmaking.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 44 out of 52
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Mixed: 3 out of 52
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Negative: 5 out of 52
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Matheww.10Aged 15 it was not aimed at me but this film is ultimately watchable at a very very high level.
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