Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs overindulges (Review)

If a cheeseburger dropped from the heavens and hit me in the head, I would not be happy. I probably wouldn’t be conscious either. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs shows us what happens when you get too much of a good thing, though its essentially just one big action flick.

This isn’t quite the Judi Barrett kids story you remember from childhood. It’s been altered, though a lot of the basic tenets are still in place. It’s still set on the fictional island of Chewandswallow, it still rains cheeseburgers and ice cream, and at the end the weather starts getting out of control, but Sony adds new dimensions to the classic story. We now know why those burgers fall from the sky. Flint Lockwood, a young scientist with daddy issues, is responsible.

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