Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 2009 ****

I must say I enjoyed this a lot more than Toy Story 3. The story is simple, based around a young scientist named Flint whose inventions have all gone wrong ever since he was a child. He lives in a small town called Swallow Falls where the population are forced to eat nothing but sardines all day everyday and decides to invent a machine that will end the hunger of the town.

His invention mutates water molecules into food which in turn rains down on the town and the population can thus eat decent food for a change.

Meeting a shy intern weather-reporter named Sam whose weather report is ruined by falling hamburgers, Flint convinces himself that the best thing to is to continuously produce different food everyday for the residents, earning him favour with the town mayor despite the warning meter on his machine looking like it's going to explode. You know what's going to happen.

I won't say much more, except that this is a really original idea for an animated movie, and the characters are fun and memorable which is just what you want.

Worth a watch.