BIG BALLS OF MEAT
Jan. 11th, 2010 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAnd yr first big hit of the 2010 movie season is:
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Yes, I know this came out at least a semester ago for many of you. But it only opened in Hong Kong less than two weeks ago.
And it’s great fun: manic nerd scientist invents a food machine that accidentally makes food rain from the sky. Hilarity and unforeseen consequences ensue.
The whole concept is ridiculous, but they make the most of it – once the food starts coming down, the film shifts from zany slaptick to very surreal zany slapstick – which gets even more surreal once it starts parodying Roland Emmerich disaster films.
There’s also some not-so-subtle commentary on runaway technology, gluttony, the cost of a free lunch, how society values good looks and idiocy over smarts, and the obligatory father-son bonding routine. But for all that, I can’t remember the last time the bridal unit and I laughed this hard in a movie theatre.
In a word, wacky. Wacky is good. We need more wacky in cinema.
FUN FACT: The funniest part, of course, was wondering who decided to model the cop character after Mr T, only to find out that it WAS Mr T.
Pity the fool,
This is dF
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Yes, I know this came out at least a semester ago for many of you. But it only opened in Hong Kong less than two weeks ago.
And it’s great fun: manic nerd scientist invents a food machine that accidentally makes food rain from the sky. Hilarity and unforeseen consequences ensue.
The whole concept is ridiculous, but they make the most of it – once the food starts coming down, the film shifts from zany slaptick to very surreal zany slapstick – which gets even more surreal once it starts parodying Roland Emmerich disaster films.
There’s also some not-so-subtle commentary on runaway technology, gluttony, the cost of a free lunch, how society values good looks and idiocy over smarts, and the obligatory father-son bonding routine. But for all that, I can’t remember the last time the bridal unit and I laughed this hard in a movie theatre.
In a word, wacky. Wacky is good. We need more wacky in cinema.
FUN FACT: The funniest part, of course, was wondering who decided to model the cop character after Mr T, only to find out that it WAS Mr T.
Pity the fool,
This is dF
