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Cloudy With a Chance of a Movie
By Laurie | September 13, 2009
| Last week I made a donation to the North Texas Food Bank for one of their online drives. On Friday I got a surprise e-mail saying they had reserved four seats for me at an advanced screening of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a new animated 3-D movie from Columbia and Sony Pictures. This was actually one of D’s favorite books as a kid, and we had talked about seeing it anyway since we are giant kids in adult bodies. |  |
So what to do with the other two seats? Could we dare show up to a screening of a children’s movie by ourselves? My friend Nikki agreed to let me pick her children up in the pouring rain and swoop them off to the movies. Her daughter Taylor called me “Aunt Laurie” without any prompting while we were out shopping a few weeks ago, and then both she and Zach officially “adopted” both of us as an Aunt and Uncle the next week. Too cute.
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The night before we visited our favorite local independent bookstore, Legacy Books, and picked up the book to give to the kids and to jog our memories. I actually hadn’t remembered it until I saw the book. It’s short, and there’s not much to it. I knew the makers of the movie probably had to take a lot of liberties, as I imagine Spike Jonze did with Where the Wild Things Are. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was actually first published in 1978… the year I was born! Go figure. |
| When we arrived at the movie theater, the kids were excited because there was a Radio Disney van parked out front of the theater. Once inside we were treated like VIPs and didn’t have to stand in line. After everyone was wanded and my purse checked for cameras and cell phones, we were allowed into the theater. We had special seats reserved with my name on them. The kids were once again excited when they realized that the Radio Disney DJs were in our theater giving out prizes. They each “won” a Scratch & Sniff card with different foods from the movie, and insisted on making us smell them all. |  |
The movie was colorful and fun, and the kids seemed to really enjoy it. The animation was really good and I enjoyed the voices of the characters, even though I convinced myself I was listening to John Cusack instead of Bill Hader. Ah well. Mr. (I pity the fool) T also voices a character. There were also plenty of jokes for adults sprinkled in, that go right over the little one’s heads. Since we weren’t allowed cameras and phones, I don’t have any pictures. I assure you though, a good time was had by all.
On the way to lunch, since it was still pouring rain, we spent the ride asking the kids what foods they wished were falling from the sky. Ice cream was the consensus. If only…
Topics: Movies | 8 Comments »
It was wishful thinking that it was John Cusack. He’s so dreamy.
Posted by: corrinMy kids are dying to see it, sounds really cute!
Posted by: Jean M.I remember that book and how much it was liked.
Posted by: DadI am not sure where that picture came from applied to my last comment. Does anybody know?
Posted by: DadIf you don’t have a profile picture, Laurie’s site slaps that one on you. Been meaning to hack… I mean ask her to change that “feature”.
Posted by: DaveYup, David said they read that one a lot as kids!
If you sign up with an account on http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup, it will display a custom picture that you select. Otherwise, it will use my site’s custom avatar.
Posted by: LaurieD- No hacking or me changing anything is required. Don’t you have an account with Gravatar? If so, you can have your own custom picture.
Posted by: Lauriemaybe if I use the right email addy it will work
Posted by: DuaneBB