Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

[grady]

Funny. A friend of mine who works for a local paper in town saw it last week and can't stop raving about it.

[Sean]

That's what I'm sayin'. One slightly back-handed compliment we've been hearing frequently here is that it's "the best non-Pixar animated film" reviewers have seen. And if I'm being totally honest, it's the first animated film we've put out at Sony that I think is a really fantastic movie. I liked Open Season okay, but I think you could tell it was our first film. Surf's Up, our second film (that I didn't work on at all incidentally), was beautiful looking with a few good moments, but a crap story overall in my opinion. But Cloudy, I have no real complaints about. It flows nicely to where you're constantly eager to see what'll happen next, there are big laughs throughout, the characters are super-entertaining and likable, and it looks great. And I think it'll appeal to adults more than many other animated films too, mainly because the sense of humor of Chris and Phil, the Directors, is pretty tweaked in a Cartoon Network "Adult Swim" kind of way.

So trust me on this one - you'll like it.

[Sean]

Yee-haw! Studio expectations were for a $25-$30 million opening weekend, and we came in at $30.3. And we're carrying an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which I rarely see! I guess I'm just excited that we get to keep our jobs....

[viddy]

Sony's been puttin out some really excellent films lately. District 9, Julie and Julia, Moon, Taking of Pelham 123 (not a bad flick), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Zombieland (which is not out yet).

[darktrain]

I know, right? Those guys at Sony must be some top-quality fellows, huh?

[King of Snake]

Definitely looking forward to seeing this!