Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is the latest computer animated film (That is based off of the children's book of the same name) released by Sony Pictures Animation.
Computer Animation has become a very profitable medium over the years. We see so many of these films nowadays, that one can't just make a computer animated film anymore and expect people to like it. As this medium of animation continues to grow, so are the people - and audiences will no longer accept cheap gimmicks seen rehashed over a hundred times. As for Sony Pictures Animation, they learned it the hard way when they decided to hop aboard the CGI-Train with Pixar and Dreamworks. Their first film, Open Season, was a failure. It lacked a valued story, original characters, and ultimately the heart of what makes a computer animated film good. Since then, they've made other efforts, such as Surf's Up. moving on from there, Sony really had to change their game plan a bit if they really wanted to capture the hearts of audiences and be truly respected like other computer animation companies... So here we have today: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
Did Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs deliver, or did it hit low standards like Open Season? -- I think it surely delivered the goods. This is one of those rare films that will really come out of left-field for a lot of people. It's such an unexpectedly awesome movie for me.
It really was just surprising for me when I saw just how good it was... And previously I thought it looked stupid based off of the trailer.
Well, this movie certainly is stupid -- but in a good way. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is a very silly name for a movie (And book), so you gotta expect that it is a very silly movie with a silly premise... It really is, silly at its core. In a way, it felt like a really fun Saturday morning cartoon (One of the good ones, like Looney Tunes or Mickey Mouse). But don't let that intimidate some of you who don't like such nonsense... This film also had a lot of heart and a story that was entertaining all the way through.
The film is very funny - quite possibly the funniest film I've seen all year... I just kept laughing all the way through.
In the end, I think Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs will be one of those unexpected gems for a lot of people. Don't come into the theater expecting a very serious film; because if you do, then you will see the film wrong. If you come into the theater just wanting a fun and lighthearted film with lots of smart humor, feast your appetite on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is quite possibly one of the best non-Pixar computer animated films I've ever seen (And that says a lot for those who know how pro-Pixar I am). 9/10