For my final and last food media review I will be talking about my all time favorite movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. This movie is dedicated to food. I crave a burger every time I watch it.
This movie starts off with a town that has noting to eat but sardines. I think something interesting to really notice in this is that a lot of times we take food for granted. A lot of countries don’t have the luxury that we have here in the United states. Here there are programs and places that you can go to to get food. In other places it’s not really the same.
Flint Lockwood the main character creates a machine that turns water into food. While watching the very scene that he does this I always wonder whether it is actually possible to turn water into food. I think that the person who created this movie probably had some type of theory on it. I wonder this because us humans are made 75% made of water and so maybe food is too.
After his invention goes wrong and is launched all the way up into the cloud it starts raining food. This scene where it’s raining cheeseburgers is my favorite because it just looks so good. Something that I always wondered in this movie is how they could eat food from the floor. In reality I would never eat food from New York City streets. I think that this movie is fun to watch just because it’s very hard to picture food falling from the sky. However In the movie It has some Bible references. The food falling from the sky can connect to how manna fell from heaven. So actually I don’t think it’s impossible that food can fall from the sky.
To continue after everyone is enjoying the food from the sky The food ends up getting bigger and the portion sizes get bigger. For Example A hot dog is bigger than a street block. A steak is bigger than a size of a table. This kind of reminds me of how America is the considered to be the fattest country. Our portion sizes are huge. Some fast food places don’t even have size small in drinks. The medium and large drinks don’t have much of a difference either. We eat a lot in the country and we tend to over eat as well. I personally can eat a chick fil a meal at 5:00 and at 7:00 I would be hungry again. Our country has been so used to eating very late and eating in abundance. I think that if we fixed the portion sizes in America. Obesity rates would go down and our eating habits would also change.
Overall Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is a great and fun movie and if you’re ever eating a burger that is the movie to watch.
Hi Destiny I loved this movie , and liked how you connect it it to the real life and explain how this movie points out problems in our society when it comes to our food choices and food portions.
Hi Destiny!
I liked reading your review and the way you described the movie. This was my favorite movie growing up! I liked how you related the movie to America’s food portion size. I agree on how large portions of our food have created an increase in obesity. I recently learned how some airlines are considering weighing passengers before boarding because there has been an increase in American’s weight and has created safety concerns on how much the plane can hold.
Destiny, That movie is based on a children’s book with the same title. I had no idea it had been made into a movie, so I was so excited to see your post!!! If you ever come across the book, take a look at it. It was one of my favorites to read with my kids when they were little. Thanks for sharing the movie!