Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, USA, 90 minutes Original English Spoken Version
Based on the much-loved, same-named children’s book by Judi and Ron Barrett, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs introduces us to an eccentric inventor named Flint Lockwood. He lives in a small town that thrives on canned sardines, but when he invents a machine that turns water into food and accidentally launches it into the atmosphere, it starts raining food. This makes Lockwood an overnight celebrity and object of attention for local female weather reporter named Sam Sparks, but when the greedy Mayor Shelbourne starts overloading the machine, all kinds of food-related havoc ensues.
A visually astonishing, frequently hilarious fairy tale for all ages that contains a poignant commentary about food, consumerism and scientific advancement gone awry, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is a wonderful film that resonates beautifully with this year’s festival theme: Science!
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs has been screened in the Netherlands before, but never in the original English spoken version. For the first time, Dutch audiences can enjoy the original version featuring the voice talent of Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Anna Faris, Mr. T, Lauren Graham and Neil Patrick Harris.