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Product Description ------------------- When Flint Lockwood’s (Bill Hader) latest contraption accidentally destroys the town square and rockets up into the clouds, he thinks his inventing career is over. Then something amazing happens as delicious cheeseburgers start raining from the sky. His machine actually works! But when people greedily ask for more and more food, the machine starts to run amok, unleashing spaghetti tornadoes and giant meatballs that threaten the world! Now it’s up to Flint, with the help of weather girl Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Steve, his talking monkey assistant, to find some way to shut down the machine before the world is covered in super-sized meatballs! .co.uk Review ------------- Just when you thought that Pixar and DreamWorks had the monopoly on computer animated movies, along comes Sony with the delightful Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and splashes enough imagination on the screen to make any of its rivals sit up and take notice. Appreciating that the source material is spread a little too thinly for the film to be an outright classic, what really helps Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is the wonderful way it’s been realised. Blessed with a bright, vibrant colour palette, some fabulous voice talent--whoever cast Mr T deserves many medals--and an engaging story, it’s a very good film that serves a family audience well. It’s also one of the very first films to be released in 3D on Blu-ray. You need a 3D television to feel the benefit, but obviously there are rewards to be reaped here if your technology is already in place. Capturing the quality of the cinematic 3D presentation, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is a fine candidate for 3D, and the film looks quite wonderful here. A sequel has already been commissioned, unsurprisingly, but it’s a film that’s got a job and a half on its hands. For Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is a lovely movie, and one that sets high standards to live up to. --Jon Foster