Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Another movie review.

I went to see "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" with Becky's kids. One of the best kids' movies and one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time. A lot of animated films go all out for the animation and go with a lackluster script, but this movie is wonderfully drawn and also very wittily written. There are some truly laugh out loud moments--not LOL when you're really barely smiling--but real, true belly laughs. And the art work is funny too. Things moved very fast and I'm sure I missed some visual jokes just because it was so fast-paced. It reminded me of Mad Magazine, only animated.They use physical comedy as well as any animated film I've seen in a while-the Mr. T character, the town cop, has some hilarious physical bits. They even threw in a handy-dandy couple of morals, the best one being that the lead female character became more attractive and more interesting when she showed her true self (a self-described nerd) than she was when she was a blonde bimbo.

In case you can't tell, I liked this one. A solid 5 star, don't miss film. If you don't have kids of your own or grandkids or a niece or nephew, and you don't feel comfortable going to kids' movies alone, rent a kid, but see this movie!