Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - A Review
It's finally happened. Something I've been holding out for since the day I became a Father - my three year old has reached the age where we can not only watch movies together, but movies that I might enjoy without being intellectually clubbed to death by the simplicity explicit in most shows made for her age group! Last night we had our first "family movie night" and kicked it off with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs... ...the story of Flint Lockwood, a young wannabe inventor who up until recently has failed brilliantly at everything he has put his inventiveness to. From spray on indestructible shoes which can never be removed to a species of flying rats which plague his small island town of Swallow Falls, a sardine fishing community on the verge of rebooting its run down economy by opening a colossal sardine themed tourist park. Flint has invented a machine which transmogrifies water into any food you can imagine, which he hooks up to the town's power sup...