Cloudy w/ A Chance of 3-D Meatballs!

If you liked MONSTERS VS ALIENS, you should LOVE CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS. Why? It's simply because it's more sight gags, a pretty damn clever script and a ton of awesome 3-d worthy moments that helps launch the Sony Animation division outside of Blue Sky's ICE AGE films.

As conceived by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, CLOUDY departs from the classic children's book of the same name and goes extra zany. Seriously, if we live in a cinematic age where there is no such thing as a good live-action spoof comedy, CLOUDY may be animated, but it owes its genre roots to the spoof comedies like AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN that have come before it. Just like in those spoof comedies, there are a ton of sight gags plus an over ambitious ending that settles for a ton of action and steps away from the funny. Yet Lord and Miller are smart enough to leave the pop culture references to a minimum in CLOUDY and overpopulate the film with timeless jokes, that won't grow old with age and it should be able to stand the test of animated time.

DOBLER RATING: B

FINAL THOUGHT:

Just a purely fun movie with a good heart that may not be a Pixar giant, but does what it does so nicely it's hard not to go out of your way for an extra serving of meatballs (yeah, I had to go there).