Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

It's not every day that you walk in to a movie theater and you can not relate to anybody in there. That was the case for us when we walked in to the Carmike Valley Square Cinema on Saturday afternoon. The crowd consisted of parents with their children, grandparents also with their children and grandchildren, and then us: two random college students choosing to spend their weekends inside.

Taking advantage of the air conditioning and our fashionable 3-D glasses, we spent the afternoon watching food fly every which way in Sony Animation's newest release Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Based off of the popular children's book written by Judi and Ron Barrett, Meatballs is about a young, brilliant, and unfortunately unlucky inventor named Flint Lockwood. His whole life Flint wanted to make the one invention that would get him his notoriety and change the world around him. After countless failed experiments, he comes up with a contraption that didn't originally work, but by a freak accident ended up turning his luck around. This machine was capable of transforming water into food, but it ends up causing a downpour of cheeseburgers on their city. The citizens are originally in love with the new results, but when the people start getting too acclamated to this new gift, things begin to spiral out of control, and all eyes are back on Flint to save the town again.

This movie was flat out fun. It is amazing to sit in a theater full of kids just cracking up at anything that happens. Although this is geared towards the child audience, the all-star cast can keep any teen or adult interested. The cast includes the like of SNL members Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, and Will Forte. It also stars Anna Faris, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobb'e J. Thompson (the rising child star from Role Models and Imagine That), and even Mr. T does the voice of the town police officer. It's arguably the best animated this summer since Up, but it does have its shortcomings. Nevertheless, this is a must see movie, whether it be in theaters or on DVD.

Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEyjj-L5Mv8