Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

f-22 "raptor" ace · **on:** July 25, 2009, 06:04:13 PM

For those who don't know about it Cloudy with a chance of meatballs was a book about a town where the sky supplied its food. Now they've made a movie about it. Here is the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9wtdwgeok. After watching the trailer it's the worst movie I've ever seen! This is going to be even worse than Titanic the animated musical! Why make a movie out of a 15 or so page book

? It makes no sense

! If you make a movie out of a book like Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs you might as well call it "we're just gonna make up our version cause we're greedy and we don't care if we destroy your favorite childhood book. In conclusion this is one movie I will not see I'd rather read the book at least the book makes more sense!

Nick22 · **Reply #1 on:** July 25, 2009, 06:34:02 PM

I read the book in second grade and I loved it. Yeah the move looks horrible. the pizzas shooting at us?

: still tjhough to be as bad as Titanic the animated Musical takes some serious suckitude, this filn is going to be bad , but imo not epic bad..

Dash The Longneck · **Reply #2 on:** July 25, 2009, 06:43:59 PM

Quote from: Nick22,Jul 25 2009 on 05:34 PM

I read the book in second grade and I loved it. Yeah the move looks horrible. the pizzas shooting at us? : still tjhough to be as bad as Titanic the animated Musical takes some serious suckitude, this filn is going to be bad , but imo not epic bad..

Have you actually seen that whole movie? I hear it's extremely rare (though I don't see why) I saw clips of this from the Nostalgia Critic's video. And let me tell you those clips alone is enough to make me hurl. I mean I like rappers as much as anything else but a Rapping dog? Seriously that's the best thing they could come up with?

Nick22 · **Reply #3 on:** July 25, 2009, 11:41:56 PM

Yes I saw the Nostagia critic panning- er review of it.. I've already gone on in length in the thread about the film, how bad it is..

Alex · **Reply #4 on:** July 26, 2009, 02:40:53 AM

Yeah, Cloudy and Where The Wild Things Are, both are like short books with movies coming out. Both look terrible. I won't be seeing either. I used to like the Wild Things when I was little, too.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #5 on:** July 26, 2009, 02:43:49 AM

I got out of having to read this in second grade. Instead I read some story with a couple of children who visited some place where the people ate only for enjoyment, not because of physical need. I have no clue what the story was called or what it was about. I fudged the report on the internet and didn't read much of the story.

Nick22 · **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2009, 02:52:10 AM

Where the Wild Things are doesn't look as bad as cloudy, but its not great either..

Alex · **Reply #7 on:** July 26, 2009, 03:25:39 AM

Quote from: Nick22,Jul 26 2009 on 01:52 AM

Where the Wild Things are doesn't look as bad as cloudy, but its not great either..

True. But (Now, I can't remember the book very well) the movie just looks like it focuses on some kid's imagination. Something about his parents thinks he's weird or something like that. I could be very wrong, but I don't even remember a kid in the book. I only remember liking the monsters. I understand that they can't make a feature film with just 15 pages on material, but if they have to fill in some of the story, I wish they would make it a good storyline.

The monsters don't look very cool either.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #8 on:** July 26, 2009, 03:40:09 AM

I'm not the kind of person that can get excited about such illogical happenings in a book/movie. Water into food? Seriously!? I wish they'd start making ORIGINAL things in movies instead of looking 10 years in the past for something that can make them a quick buck. <_<

Daddytops2009 · **Reply #9 on:** July 26, 2009, 06:11:54 AM

Not a movie I'm waiting for.

Dash The Longneck · **Reply #10 on:** July 27, 2009, 11:05:38 AM

I might even end up seeing where the wild things are. Just for the hell of it. But I am steering clear of this movie.

LBTFan13 · **Reply #11 on:** July 27, 2009, 11:34:24 AM

Where the Wild Things Are was one of my favorite childhood books, but why are they making a movie based on it like ten years after the book was written? Just another excuse to overuse CGI in my opinion. I fear this movie will probably ruin the book.

As for Cloudy, pretty much the same thing. This might not be a smart decision for Anna Farris, who has made a sucessful career with movies such as the Scary Movie series (which I find hysterical) and House Bunny (also pretty funny), but now she's resorting to this? Probably will ruin the book also.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #12 on:** July 31, 2009, 10:06:02 PM

It will the town in the movie has a different name from the book. What the name Chew and Swallow the name of the town in the book wasn't good enough?! I bet it will have some annoying song that will ruin the movie and piss people who have read the book off.

jedi472 · **Reply #13 on:** August 06, 2009, 06:10:54 PM

Quote from: f-22 "raptor" ace,Jul 25 2009 on 05:04 PM

For those who don't know about it Cloudy with a chance of meatballs was a book about a town where the sky supplied its food. Now they've made a movie about it. Here is the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9wtdwgeok. After watching the trailer it's the worst movie I've ever seen! This is going to be even worse than Titanic the animated musical! Why make a movie out of a 15 or so page book ? It makes no sense ! If you make a movie out of a book like Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs you might as well call it "we're just gonna make up our version cause we're greedy and we don't care if we destroy your favorite childhood book. In conclusion this is one movie I will not see I'd rather read the book at least the book makes more sense!

Dude, no offense, but I don't think you can really tell the quality of a movie based on a trailer. And yeah, it's a fifteen-page book, but they made a movie out of Winnie the Pooh, and look at how popular that was.

Kor · **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2009, 09:17:43 PM

Looks like it could have funny scenes in a mindless funny way, not sure if it'll be a good movie. And a kid inventor. Though he becomes an adult later in the movie from the looks of it, the kid inventor scenes reminded me of the Jimmy Neutron movie. Maybe meet the robinsons too, but I've not seen that movie beyond the trailer.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2009, 09:30:55 PM

It appears I'm the only one, but I thought it looked pretty good. Course I never read the book it was based off of (nor knew it even existed until f-22 mentioned it), and I don't watch TV, so I'm definitely an outsider.

Kor · **Reply #16 on:** August 06, 2009, 11:21:33 PM

I don't watch tv. Not even pbs. So don't feel like you're the only one who does not watch tv.

jedi472 · **Reply #17 on:** August 06, 2009, 11:23:02 PM

I only watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report, and occasionally a Star Trek or two.

Amaranthine · **Reply #18 on:** August 06, 2009, 11:52:16 PM

This sounds like a good movie to me. ^_^
I like those underdog stories and odd stories. This seems to be a pretty original film.

thebigdeal · **Reply #19 on:** September 19, 2009, 01:05:15 AM

i just saw the movie
it was actually awesome, but not like the book