Story Overview: Swallow Falls, a tiny island hidden under the "A" in "Atlantic" on the world map that strives off the sardines industry. When people realized that this fish was 'gross' to eat, the company Baby Brent's Sardines went under and Swallow Falls suffered an economic downturn. With a large amount of sardines the town cooked the gross fish any way possible.
Flint Lockwood the young scientist grew up in Swallow Falls as a nerd working on being an inventor, but everything ended in catastrophe. One day he creates Flint Lockwood's Diatomic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator (FLDSMDFR) which turns water into food and with this he decides to end the towns bland food problems. That day he looses this new invention as it shoots off into the sky which causes food to be made in the clouds, raining down on Swallow Falls. From this point on Flint is the most popular guy in the town as he creates three meals a day and also helps out an intern news reporter, Sam Sparks, get news with the wacky food forecast worldwide. With all this has Flint put to much on his plate? You will have to watch the movie and find out.
This movie was written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller who both did Clone High which made me interested, but I did not let that cloud my judgement. The overall story line was pretty cheesy but it did have its parts that would hook you in to keep watching. After awhile you felt that they would drag parts out to long till you are waiting in boredom for the expected end result. This movie has been done before with the nerd/cute girl romance, unconnected father, a random pet that can talk (kinda) and a nerd guy who was hated becomes loved.
It was definitely not made for someone over the age of 10 to be interested in. I however did enjoy the idea of food falling from the sky and also the graphics. I am a sucker for digital animation and really cartoonish looking characters. The townsfolk tend to have some good one liners which would make you laugh a bit. One character I really liked was Officer Earl Devereaux, he had some great lines and you have to love the guy for how much he protected his son. This would be a great movie to own if you had children cause in the end you feel good about Flint saving the day.
Bonus: Full Screen/Theatrical Widescreen, DVD Rom Link
Rating: 4.5/10
Cast:
Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader)
Samantha Sparks (Anna Faris)
Timothy Lockwood (James Caan)
Steve The Monkey (Neil Patrick Harris)
Mayor Shelbourne (Bruce Campbell)
Brent McHale (Andy Samberg)
Officer Earl Devereaux (Mr. T)
Calvin Devereaux (Bobb'e J, Thompson)
Manny (Benjamin Bratt)
Patrick Patrickson (Al Roker)
Frances Lockwood (Lauren Graham)
Joseph Towne (Will Forte)
