Just because Pixar is flavour of the month, it’d be wrong to assume that all other animated movies are simply half-arsed mismatched buddy capers.
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is that rare animated breed that happens to be as enjoyable for the drooling infant hordes as it is for the stupid parents who take them to the cinema and inject them with sugar. It manages to do that strange thing of providing characters that you actually care for.
This slice of CG toon was a 3D adventure when it hit cinemas last year but has thankfully given up on bringing that experience to the living room, thankfully. While it may have been impressive in the cinema, 3D would have detracted from a film packed with the type of gag rate and gooey centre that hasn’t been around since The Simpsons jumped the shark at the turn of the millennium.
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Big week for the weekend box office this week – just look at all the incredible films that were released on Friday.
There was Michael Moore’s latest, searingly topical, effort. Drew Barrymore’s debut as a director. The latest breathlessly-anticipated movie by The Coen Brothers. That Ricky Gervais film that’s garnered glowing reviews from all corners. Which one of these equally worthy new releases ended up topping the US weekend box office chart?
Oh, it was Zombieland. A film about Woody Harrelson shooting a bunch of zombies while wearing a funny hat. Of course – why didn’t we think of that?
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Why didn’t we see this coming? What are the two things that people love more than anything else? That’s right.
Meteorology and mechanically-reclaimed meatstuffs. And that’s why Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is the weekend box office number one again. It’s not because no good films were released this week, or because all people are stupid. It’s because Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs finally combined the public’s twin loves of overcast weather and globs of nonspecific meat.
Or not. Look, it’s a cartoon about meatballs. We’re finding it hard to care about this one, to be honest.
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Such is the rapid and worrying rise of the machines, that this week’s big hit at the pictures is completely animated, in a computer sense. That means that it was crafted by a gaggle of dweeboids in woolen Christmas jumpers, who are now more powerful than Jennifer Lopez and Guy Ritchie put together.
This weekend alone, a high pitched squeal of celebrating techno-whizzkids could be heard echoing about the splendid hills of Hollywood, making it rather hard for proven actors to concentrate on servicing whichever downtrodden groupie had lowered their self-esteem enough to become just another glue-like splatter on a massive custom-made bedpost. Because, that’s right, topping the US box office charts is Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs – a computerised tale of an inventor turning water into food. A bit like Jesus, but with burgers. Read More >>>
