Hello everyone welcome to my blog once again and this time I'll be sharing something satisfying.
Animated films have always been my kryptonite since childhood and they still are to this very day. Everything about its unrealistic nature reins me in and honestly I am certain I can enjoy any cartoon regardless of its genre (so long as it is not solely centered just romance) and cloudy with a chance of meatballs happens to one of such films with beautiful storytelling bundled up with humor and wrapped by incredible characters.
The movie kicks off on an island located at the Atlantic called Swallow falls where the protagonist Flint Lockwood an inventor lives. The town is best known for relying on sardines as its primary source of livelihood. Flint is well known around the town for his failed inventions which ends up causing more harm than intended with his father being the center of all his mishaps.
During elementary school, Flint presents an invention called the "spray on shoes" which works exactly as the name implies but without any means of taking them off implying that the sprayed shoes were stuck permanently on Flint's feet. The young inventor grows up with a dream to prove the entire town wrong and earn some respect so that he won't become like everyone in town with lives revolving around selling sardines.
Flint finally creates his masterpiece, a device capable of turning water into any kind of food. Realizing the device requires a massive amount of electricity to boost start it, he sneaks off to the electrical grid of the entire town on the day of an amusement park opening. Things go south and the device ends up destroying the event and launching into the sky with Flint receiving all the blame for it.
Just when Flint starts to feel like nothing good was ever going to work out for him, he notices cheeseburgers raining from the sky strictly around the entire town. This was Flint's moment, he finally achieved the first success in his life and the whole town loved him for it. From the towns Mayor to the police man always ready to strike him down, Flint is labeled the hero of Swallow Falls.
The town no longer needs to rely on sardines anymore as Flint provides varieties of meals just at the press of a button. A weather reporter Sam Sparks comes into town to cover this story and Flint falls head over heels for her with both of them connecting over their love of science and experiences from their childhood.
The town continues to enjoy the benefits of Flint's device. However, Sam notices some changes in the food warning Flint that something is wrong but the Major who is hell bent on making the town a tourist attraction encourages him that this invention if handled properly would give him world wide fame and the two continue to move on with it.
The food soon start to mutate into creatures with the intent of destroying the town. Flint try to shut it down remotely but discovers that the machine was overloading and the only way he could stop it was using a virus to knock it out of commission. With the help from friends, he builds a flying car and heads up to the sky alongside Sam, his monkey Steve, Brent and the camera men.
When they finally arrived at the machines location, they saw that it has created a fortress for itself which they have to sneak in to destroy. They battle different kinds of food monsters and end up being separated. Flint finally comes in contact with the machine but the USB drive with the virus was already damaged. He manages to use the "spray on shoes* paint as his weapon of destruction thus ending a potential threat to humanity.
The show ends with the town safe but completely covered with every kind of food imaginable. Overall I'll give it a solid 8.5 just for being a ray of sunshine to my childhood
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PS All images are taken from IMDb
