a5c7b9f00b Flint Lockwood has always wanted to make the world a better place. But all of his inventions are not useful. Until he creates a machine that can turn water into food. And when he tests it in front of his hometown, Swallow Falls, he accidentally launches it into the sky. And makes food rain from the sky. But when Flint thinks he's helped his town, disasters start occurring when people ask for more food. Flint Lockwood thinks he's a genius. But none of the things he invented are things that make sense or are useful. However, he has the support of his mother but when she dies, he's left alone with his father who thinks he should give it up. When the community that he lives in is in an economic crisis because their primary source of income, a sardine cannery, was shut down, Flint decides to try his latest invention, a machine that can turn water into food. But something goes wrong and the machine ends up in the atmosphere. Later it starts raining food. The shifty mayor tries to use this as a way to help their community, but when Flint senses something wrong with the machine, the mayor convinces him to ignore it. However, as Flint predicts, chaos ensues. A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know, that things are about to take a turn for the worst. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was truly a film that i didn't expect to enjoy that much, i kept hearing about it over and over again but it really was a really good film and one that really sticks with you both in terms of animation but also in terms of story and laughs. Sure Sony Pictures Animation has done better films than this but this one it's definitely on the list with their best movies for sure cause i was very much suprised by how excellent it was in the end and i definitely recommending it. (10/10) "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" is a fun, fast and funny animated comedy which revolves around a young scientist who invents a machine which causes food to rain from the skies. Like Pixar's "Wall-E", the film points fingers at Western over-consumption, greed and consumer capitalism, and the effect this lifestyle of decadence has on the environment.<br/><br/>Unlike "Wall-E", however, the film is not preachy, its metaphors disguised with wild antics and much mayhem. Consider one scene in which a fat Mayor sails on a giant slice of toast, and then begins to eat the toast until his "boat" sinks. It's a metaphor for man irrationally consuming his way to disaster, but it's played for laughs and lasts no more than a couple seconds. The film is filled with such "visual messages", but never feels didactic.<br/><br/>This being an animated film, "Meatballs" utilises a virtual camera which possesses a sense of freedom and energy which conventional films lack. For this reason, these films are always worth keeping up with.<br/><br/>In terms of flaws, like most of these animated films, the picture is far too busy, never letting any scene or character breathe. Still, the mayhem is in service of something worthwhile. In marrying a tale of "being yourself" with "mega consumption", this flick, perhaps unintentionally, taps into French philosopher Bernard Stiegler's writings, in which he argues - take a deep breath - that "the techniques used to create consumer behaviour amount to the destruction of psychic and collective individuation, and that the diversion of libidinal energy toward the consumption of consumer products results in an addictive cycle, leading to hyper-consumption, the exhaustion of desire, and the reign of symbolic misery". Despite its air of outward juvenility, that's the message this whacky film is trying to convey.<br/><br/>Incidentally, "Meatballs" was made by Sony Pictures Animation, late comers into the world of CGI features. Pixar led the way and then came DreamWorks, now Sony is hoping to cash in on this billion dollar global market by using the formulae of both studios. They've only made three films thus far, "Surf's Up" and "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs" being the best two.<br/><br/>7.9/10 – Environmentalism is in vogue. But is it a coincidence that the Chinese character for "crisis" is a combination of the characters for "danger" and "opportunity"? <br/><br/>Worth one viewing. There is clear definition between closer and further elements. I've seen a lot of 3-D recently, and in terms of technical quality, this is the best. The town is fed up with eating sardines all the time so Flint Lockwood invents a machine that turns water into food and rains it down on the world three times a day. Unfortunately, Flint's machine has a mind of its own, and Flint must stop it before it destroys the world. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 1978 children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. The book was adapted for the animated movie by Philip Lord and Christopher Miller who also co-directed the film. It is followed by <a href="/title/tt1985966/">Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)</a> (2013). Yes, in fact as early as 1965 American scientists held an experiment in which, for 4 months, they fed 24 men nothing but synthetic chemicals created in a lab (amino acids, vitamins, glucose, salts, and the fat ethyl linoeate), in the form of a tasteless goo. But food made in a lab is much more expensive than food produced in the normal way. However, Flint's methods as presented in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs are not meant to be taken seriously: more than water would be needed to create synthetic food, and making it into something that looked like real food would be extremely difficult. However the plot was heavily changed: (1) Changed from fantasy to slight science fiction; (2) They never actually try to stop the food weather; (3) The weather was isolated to the island without any part of the world knowing about it, whereas in the movie, it becomes a tourist attraction and the food even spreads around the world; (4) Flint Lockwood, the girl meteorologist, the corrupt mayor, and most of the other characters in the movie don't exist in the book; (5) The island had no association with sardines, it always rained food at the island; (6) There was no mount leftovers; (7) They never ever come back to the island; (8) The kids don't get excited with the no school; and (9) The book plot had nothing to do with many themes in the movie i.e. fame, family, individuality.