Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

[Drunk Monk]

Much tastier than expected. Not as nearly profound as Up - there's a message about gluttony and GMO's but its overshadowed by the frivolity - but much more in-yo-face like good 3D should be. 3D is so good now. Just amazing. It's a silly premise to start but it goes some surprising places, like homages to Star Wars, Twilight Zone, Wizard of Oz and Dune. Hader and Faris are good voice actors, but they are totally overshadowed by Mr. T. Everyone overshadowed by Mr. T. I pity the fool who tries not to be overshadowed by Mr. T.

Not strictly DOOM fare, but if you have any inkling that you might want to check it out, it's better than the trailer. It might even be IMAX worthy. But definitely go for the 3D version. It'll probably suck with out the 3D.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

And I was putting in the Netflix queue . . . Damn. Probably not going to catch it at the theater.

If the movie is only good in 3-D, does it count as good movie overall? And is 3-D just a scam to make more money for the movie business? Oh, wait. Nevermind.

[Drunk Monk]

3D rocks. 3D has always rocked. I enjoyed it when it was cheesey horror films. I enjoyed Jaws 3D. And now, the technology is so much better. CGI3D is just awesome. Who needs a story when there's a screen full of flying cheeseburgers or a spaghetti tornado? That's just pure entertainment.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

You, enjoyed Jaws 3-D? I think I'll have to reassess your film qualifications. Although you probably didn't have to pay to see it at your D-Lux cinema emporium. Paying for bad films makes them worse.

As for Cloudy, it works just fine in 2-D. Lots of good jokes. Every moment they set up, they paid off in a good way. I loved Tim the bait shop owner's character. Steve the monkey was great. And I agree totally with you about Mr. T. He needs to more voice work.

All in all, it was an enjoyable ninety minutes. Now, if only my DVD player would simply play the films when I put them in rather than make me go through contortions to get them to operate.

[Drunk Monk]

I'm thinking Piranha 3D could be a winner.

Dude, I review martial arts films for a living. Seriously. I get paid to do that. Even my nom de plume's make DVD box art blurbs now. But it's martial arts films, which is only recently become a Cannes fodder genre. So which of my film qualifications need reassessing exactly?

[Drunk Monk]

This is way up there on my "would probably have been awesome in 3D" list. Like The Croods, it's eye-poppingly colorful. It does everything that The Internship did in (except for the gratuitous stripper club sequence in the extended version) the first 20 mins. And it's completely nonsensical. There's no rhyme or reason to the foodimals beyond snapping off the next bad pun. But if you like outrageously colorful cartoons and bad puns, this film is for you. Faris is still great, Hader fades a little, and Terry Crews steps in for Mr. T (guess Mr. T had something better to do than reprise this role). Crews is great. It has a portion in San Franjose, or some parody of SF/SJ (like I said, Internship) but that doesn't really play out. The villain is animated so he's crazy wobbly, unsettlingly so. No sword fights. Even T admitted that the film made no sense but we both laughed a few times at the horrid puns, and she was smitten by the cuteness factor, which is dialed to 11.