I’ve been reminiscing a lot on some of the animated movies I watched growing up, and a conversation with my friend today where we nearly had a playful food fight was when I remembered a delightful movie that I’m happy to share with you today. I may be getting back into my animated film era, but I think it will be with the older cartoons as newly released ones are not just as exciting, and frankly features certain things that I would rather not see.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Flint Lockwood lives in Swallow Falls with his father, Tim, and his pet monkey, Steve. The island he lives in has their income from sardines which they supply to other regions. Flint is an inventor who often gets into arguments with Tim as he believes his son is wasting his time and should take over the family business. With the rest of the world suddenly disliking sardines, the people of Swallow Falls are forced to eat the sardines themselves and this leaves them disgruntled.
Not until Tim invents a machine that turns water into food. A mishap with the machine sends it up to the sky and soon enough, it begins to rain cheeseburgers as well as other foods. The rejected Swallow Falls soon becomes a tourist attraction as all want to see the island where any food possible can be gotten from the sky with a flick of a button. But soon enough, disaster falls as the invention decides to take matters into its own hands.
I can’t even lie, my biggest interest in this movie was the food. I watched this movie back-to-back, like thrice in a row, and kept salivating each time because of the wide array of different foods. I remember badgering my dad if we could get a machine like that and fantasizing about how cool it would be if I had access to food on a whim. I promised myself though, that I’ll be more conservative about my requests and won’t have my machine turning out like Flint’s. Lol, those were the days.
Like all other films, other issues were highlighted in this film. Like the need to be more supportive of the interests of your children and being more accepting of your uniqueness, no matter how weirdly others may look at you or take you to be. It was refreshing to see Flint come to terms with his aggressors, and although it doesn’t happen like that in real life, it was appealing to me then that those vital issues like bullying and identity crisis were addressed.
I don’t think I’ve seen many more films like Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. These days a lot to filter through and animated movies are not as carefree as they used to be. But I may watch this again. Just for the fun and delight of seeing food that I wouldn’t dare eat now that I’m older, again.
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I loved this animation so much. Fighting a huge burger was so funny to me. And yes, the amount of foods displayed there, was enough to leave one salivating over animated foods😂.