2009 · animation · family · comedy
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Directed by Christopher Miller, Phil Lord1h 30m2009
Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?
Our read: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- funny
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