Quick Review: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

This is an animated film that's really more for kids, but I enjoyed it anyway. It's based on a children's book but from what I've read, the book's plot has been expanded. The town of Swallow Falls, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, is suffering because its main source of income (selling sardines to the rest of the world) has dried up. A young inventor builds a machine that can turn water into food. The machine doesn't work at first, but when it gets accidentally launched into the sky, a storm forms that begins raining food. At first the town is thrilled, but after a while there are problems that threaten the entire world. Obviously, things all work out in the end and there are messages for the kids, but it's a silly fun movie nonetheless. My grade: B-plus.