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I am sure many of you here on Simply Scripts have read one of the best children's books ever (or so it is in my opinion). It was one of my favourite books ever growing up as a kid, and after seeing The Collector, I walked out of the theater and saw a giant cardboard cut-out for this movie and instantly thought to myself, "Really? They're making a movie out of this!?" I surely thought that this was one big plate of sacrilege. So, I didn't bother looking any further into the movie.
So, a lot of people should know the story if they read the book, though they changed it up just a bit. But the basic premise is: A guy who wants to be an inventor invents a machine that is designed to turn water into food (because the island he lives on only serves sardines, and nobody likes sardines). But things don't go as plan, and his machine breaks and flies into the sky. Just as people are about to kick the inventor off the island, it begins to rain food. The machine works! But soon, the machine creates a mind of its own, and begins to make the food bigger and bigger, and it begins to destroy the world!
I saw the trailer for this movie on Youtube some months later, and as I was watching it, I was like, "Okay, it looks KINDA funny. No big deal." That is, until the end of the trailer, when it shows a shot of the Great Wall of China, and a giant fortune cookie falls in front of tourists and citizens, breaks open, and reveals a note that reads: You Will Be Crushed By A Falling Corn. Immediately afterwards, a giant corn-on-the-cob falls from the sky and rolls down the Great Wall of China, and the people run, screaming for their lives as the giant corn chases after them. That had me laughing so hard, that it had me sold, and I was ready to see the movie once it came out.
My friends and I even celebrated for the movie's big opening by having spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, and then we headed to the theater and watched it. Boy, this movie made me LAUGH MY ASS OFF. It is, by far, the BEST Disney movie, no, wait, the BEST MOVIE I have ever seen in my entire life. This movie IS animated, and I am not one who typically enjoys animated films, but it is one movie that is not just for kids, but for people of all ages, and it had me rolling. My friends and I were laughing at every scene (except for the sad ones), and we couldn't stop until the very end. On the ride back to campus, we were repeating all the funny lines in the movies and laughing for minutes over them. It was loads of fun.
Go see this film. It will surely brighten your day, no matter how bad it's been. See it with friends and family, and you'll have a much, much better time. The 3-D is great, the voice acting is fantastic, and it's just a great, awesome, funny movie that will have you laughing from beginning to end.
My favorite scene is when the inventor learns to throw ice cream snowballs and he goes around town viciously attacking people by hurling snowballs at them as hard as he can in the face. I laughed for about 10 mins after the scene was already over.
Just saw it (with my mom actually haha), and I loved it. I think it strikes a chord with us writers- creating something and having it rejected time and time again until we get that big break.
So despite my bias, I feel this was one of the best animated movies of the year. It was really funny, spoofed a lot of natural disaster movies, was original, had great voice acting (bruce campbell and mr t), the animation looked amazing (esp in 3d), and the direction was beyond superb. Some of the shots were so well done and the sequences were both intricate and creative (ie the spaghetti tornado scene).
Plus that monkey was too damn funny, especially with the gummy bears
my only beef with the film (no pun intended) was that the resolution could have been better and they tried to stuff too many life lessons into the film without concentrating on one- but in all honesty, real life is full of those small thruths (although in real life there arent hamburgers falling from the sky)