Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. The movie is loosely based on the children’s book of the same name. The film is also released in 3D in selected cinemas.
The film revolves around Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) who loves to invent things. His first invention, Spray-on Shoes confined his feet for life. While his mother encourages him despite his failure, his dad just wants him to work in his fishing shop. His mom passed away later on, leaving his dad to take care of him in a small town called Swallow Falls.
Flint eventually creates a device called ‘FLDSMDFR’ (Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator), which turns water into food but the machine doesn’t have enough electricity. He and his pet monkey Steve (Neil Patrick Harris) who communicates through a translator device try to power up the machine using the power station but he causes havoc around the town including destroying a new theme park called Sardin Land. When Flint bumps into Sam Sparks (Anna Faris), a weather intern who is there to cover the event, the sky starts to rain cheeseburger. Before long, the town is filled with cheeseburger.
Flint later on, can create rain for any food the townsfolk want, including ice cream for the town’s cop, Earl’s, (Mr. T) son’s birthday and giant Jell-O mold for Sam. Greediness turns the town’s mayor into rain giant-sized food and causes the world in total chaos.
Although the movie is entertaining albeit the crazy jokes, the 3D version does little wonder with limited scenes especially in the second half of the film.
Overall, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3D is funny but it’s rather disappointing if you are an adult. It’s mostly cloudy and not sunny side up.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel is the sequel to 2007’s Alvin and the Chipmunks. Starring Jason Lee, David Cross and the voice of Justin Long, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel opens on Christimas day, 2009.
Observe and Report is a movie starring Seth Rogen and Anna Faris. Rogen plays a mall cop named Ronnie Barnhardt and is called into action to stop a flasher. But when Barnhardt fails to bring the culprit to justice, a police detective is hired to close the case. The movie will be released on April 10, 2009.
Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Katharine McPhee and Rumer Willis in "The House Bunny"
Shelly Darlington (Anna Faris) is a Playboy bunny who lives happily in the Playboy mansion until after her twenty-seventh birthday where she is kicked out of the mansion due to her age. She accidentally bumps into a mini Playboy mansion and enters the house only to realize it belongs to one of the sorority house in the Greek Row of a university. There she meets Mrs. Hagstrom (Beverly D’Angelo), housemother of the sorority called Phi Iota Mu. Mrs. Hagstrom rejects Shelly from joining them as a housemother but one of the housemothers gives Shelly a hint about another sorority house called Zeta Alpha Zeta, which really needs a housemother.
Zeta Alpha Zeta needs to get thirty new pledges in order to keep the houses. When Natalie (Emma Stone) sees that Shelly is able to attract boys, she immediately accepts her as a housemother. Shelly teaches the girls about makeup and men and even throws a super cool party.
Shelly receives a call from Hugh M. Hefner (as himself) who then invites Shelly to come back to the mansion and tells her that she will be on November centerfold. She turns him down initially but calls him back and return to the mansion after the girls have blamed her for making them into somebody else.
The new make-over and the super cool party have attracted many new applications. However, the cunning Phi Iota Mu girls steals the applications which means the Zeta girls will lose the house. Shelly ditches the photo shoot for Playboy centerfold and gives a last speech to save Zeta. Her message about external beauty which won’t last forever wins the heart of many, which leads to thirty new pledges including one from an existing Phi Iota Mu girl and the girls get to keep the house.
Overall, it may be pink, blonde and girly but the movie is quite decent. Anna Faris played the character so well, I could not think of any other actress that fits the bill better. The House Bunny might not be the coolest ever movie for the genre, but it’s nice. So nice.
The House Bunny is about Shelly (Anna Faris), a Playboy bunny, who is tossed out of the mansion and she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta.
