If you can….watch it in 3D!!!

Loved Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs! I didn’t know it was based on a book until I saw the movie! According to Wikipedia:

The book is about two children who listen to their Grandpa Henry tell the story of the town of Chewandswallow, where the weather comes three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and is always food and beverages. The rain is juice and soup, the snow is mashed potatoes, and the wind brings hamburgers. Because of this phenomenon, there are no grocery stores or restaurants. However, when floods and storms of giant food come, the population is forced to leave Chewandswallow on boats made of bread, and adapt to their new lives in our world where the sky doesn’t feed you.

Well I can tell you that the movie adaptation is a little different.

See for yourself! I’d give it 4 out of 5 yes…probably because it’s all about FOOD!

Here’s a preview of it…if you haven’t seen it already.

Well it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve seen it and as a 20 something, I would have to say this one’s for the younger crowd. Ponyo’s quite different than the other Ghibli films. It’s not as dark. The story as much simpler as well. And of course Disney dipped into their latests talents with the the youngest Jonas brother, Frankie, as the voice of Sosuke and  Noah Cyrus as Ponyo. They’ve also got a few big names as voices of other characters: Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, and Liam Neeson.

One thing I have to give to this movie though…VERY VERY VERY catchy theme song!

Ponyo Ponyo fishy in the sea!

The premise of the movie revolves around Carl Fredericksen, a balloon salesman at the age of 78.  The story start off with young Carl meeting his lady love Ellie, where they both share a love for adventure and the dream of going to the “land of the lost” in South America. We fast forward to today,  when Ellie pass away due to old age. Carl remembers a “cross your heart” promise that he made to Ellie, to take her to the “land of the lost”. When Carl accidently hit a construction worker, he was forced to go to a retirment home, but before they can take him away, he spends all night tying thousands of balloons to his house and travel to South America to fulfill his and Ellie’s dream. This is when he got stuck with 8 year old Russell, who accidnetly got stowaway aboard.  Russell also had a dream, to get “assisting an elderly” scouts badge. So together, they embark on this crazy adventure, encoutering talking dogs, evil villan, and a rare bird that Russell named Kevin.

I’ve managed to watch this movie 3 times now… once with my brother, once with my buddy, and once with my boyfriend… and I enjoyed all 3 times of it. The movie tugs at your heart strings and it definitely jerked some tears out of me. Besides the adventure that Carl and Russell goes through, it also showed the various kinds of love and kindness…and this article makes this movie just that much better!