Sunday, January 24, 2010

BD review: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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I have nothing but admiration for Pixar's Wall-E and its push for realism, and I'll even grudgingly commend the heavily flawed 9 for its attempt to tell a darker, more mature story than we're used to with North American animation, but it always strikes me as something of a missed opportunity that so few animated movies, CG or traditional, fail to take advantage of the innate opportunities afforded by their medium - namely the opportunity to indulge in outrageous, broad acts of comedy that would be impossible in the real world. To that end, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs may very well bear the distinction of being the first CG animated feature to not be ashamed of being a cartoon.

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