Cloudy w/ a Chance of Meatballs

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need, can hit hard (Sloan Wilson)

Last week I went to the movie with my daughter. We watched “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and we both loved it! Flint Lockwood and Sam Sparks, the main role characters in this 3D animation, represented the two so-called-nerd who finally saved the world from the over-operating food processor. Flint, a never-tired inventor since small, whose ability is only trusted by her mother (who then passed away, leaving him with no one believe in his talent, even his Dad) invented a machine that can change water into food as ordered. The machine is put above the cloud. This invention was highly successful in the time of food recession in his town, where people can only eat sardines. Flint is so amused by all the praise he never had before, that he ignored Sam’s warning that the food processor has started to go wild. When the disaster happened, he felt he’s fail as an inventor, a dreamer, and as a human, that he hides in a trash can, throwing himself in as all his invention. His Dad, the one who disagree him being an inventor and want him to be his partner in his fishing & bait shop, finally encouraged him to resolve all the mess he has made.

Sam, the genius girl who hides her super smart brain in her trial to wipe-off her childhood sadness of being called nerd, at last she can accept herself fully and be comfortable with her own self, a pony-tail girl with a big glasses and of course, a wonderful brilliant brain (well, with a peanut allergic altogether). Together with Flint, helped by friends, they saved the world. And of course, after saving the world, Flint & Sam click together!

For me, this is a very nice animation; entertaining with a high-imagination story line, great lively pictures, and meaningful messages:
• Kids are supposed to be supported to be just themselves, be creative, be inventive, and most of all, be responsible. Guiding their ways through what they have chosen to be is far more encouraging than choose for them what to be & prevent them to be just simply their own self.
• Parents… please learn computer! (If you watch this movie, you will understand why!)