Films like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Monsters University (2013) (2013) poster
1. Monsters University2013

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) poster
2. The Pirates! Band of Misfits2012

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Madagascar (2005) (2005) poster
3. Madagascar2005

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Minions (2015) (2015) poster
4. Minions2015

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) (2009) poster
5. Monsters vs. Aliens2009

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Shrek 2 (2004) poster
6. Shrek 22004

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wreck-It Ralph (2012) poster
7. Wreck-It Ralph2012

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Megamind (2010) (2010) poster
8. Megamind2010

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Flushed Away (2006) (2006) poster
9. Flushed Away2006

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Puss in Boots (2011) (2011) poster
10. Puss in Boots2011

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Meet the Robinsons (2007) (2007) poster
11. Meet the Robinsons2007

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Despicable Me (2010) (2010) poster
12. Despicable Me2010

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

These are Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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