Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs isn't a Ratatouille ripoff, lol. It's based on a children's book where the town of Chewandswallow is suddenly assaulted by food-related weather. At first they love it, but then the logic of having giant food rain down ALL THE TIME catches up with them, and they have to flee.
I'm intrigued that for the movie adaptation they have it center around an inventor that somehow made it happen - turning a 30 page book into a full length movie will require some changes, and depending on who you asked, the inventor angle is a dumb or genius idea.
The studio is the same one behind Surf's Up, which all my animation buddies loved, so... I'm a little hopeful. I do love the fact that the animation is so very cartoony, but the eyes are a little big for me and kinda freak me out.
As for Up... yes, it was GENIUS. That story went EVERYWHERE and yet it was so very tight. Everything tied back in, and that first 10 minutes was masterful. It told a whole story of its own and told it so efficiently that my mind was blown. I
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Saaame, I'm so seeing it again! It's just too much time to wait for the dvd.
Woah, thanks for telling about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs I definitely didn't know that. :P
I agree that it's hard to adapt stories from book for really small kids (so far I really liked Horton, and Ant Bully was good too). Normally I'd love anything that has an inventor in it, but, uh, maybe it wasn't the best solution for this particular plot.
It makes it "lol randum cartoon science" and it makes me irritated. Obviously, most cartoon science is exaggeration, but there are ways to do it so it is believable. Take Up, we know that it's impossible to make a collar that would make dogs talk (and if there was one, it would probably have to be inserted directly in the brain, yuck yuck). But they make those dogs speaking that broken computerized speech and that makes it witty and believable!
I guess we just have to handwave it as the guy being a multidisciplinary genius, if a little lacking in the common sense department. Seriously, FOOD. Coming from the SKY. X)
Found the trailer on you-tube and rewatched since we're talking so much about it. XD At the rate we're talking about it I'll have to go watch it in the end just to have a finished opinion!
"Conversion of water into food". I don't think Bill Nye would approve of it...
I'm intrigued that for the movie adaptation they have it center around an inventor that somehow made it happen - turning a 30 page book into a full length movie will require some changes, and depending on who you asked, the inventor angle is a dumb or genius idea.
The studio is the same one behind Surf's Up, which all my animation buddies loved, so... I'm a little hopeful. I do love the fact that the animation is so very cartoony, but the eyes are a little big for me and kinda freak me out.
As for Up... yes, it was GENIUS. That story went EVERYWHERE and yet it was so very tight. Everything tied back in, and that first 10 minutes was masterful. It told a whole story of its own and told it so efficiently that my mind was blown. I ( ... )
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Woah, thanks for telling about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs I definitely didn't know that. :P
I agree that it's hard to adapt stories from book for really small kids (so far I really liked Horton, and Ant Bully was good too). Normally I'd love anything that has an inventor in it, but, uh, maybe it wasn't the best solution for this particular plot.
It makes it "lol randum cartoon science" and it makes me irritated. Obviously, most cartoon science is exaggeration, but there are ways to do it so it is believable. Take Up, we know that it's impossible to make a collar that would make dogs talk (and if there was one, it would probably have to be inserted directly in the brain, yuck yuck). But they make those dogs speaking that broken computerized speech and that makes it witty and believable!
See, I'm kind of boring. :P
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"Conversion of water into food".
I don't think Bill Nye would approve of it...
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