We saw this showing at my daughter's request, and tickets were an extra $2.25 apiece. Is it worth paying extra for the 3-D version? Bonus Geek Cred: Bruce Campbell and Neil Patrick Harris are in there, too, but it's more fun if you don't find out who they are ahead of time. Other voices you'll likely recognize are James Caan and Mr. And as a GeekDad with a daughter, I was also happy to see a crystal clear "Don't dumb yourself down" message sent through the character of Sam Sparks, a brainy type who's abandoned her glasses and pretends to be an airhead to keep up appearances.īill Hader of Saturday Night Live is Flint, Anna Faris is Sam. He's got a Nikola Tesla poster on his wall, his lab surroundings are half totally awesome tech and half just-for-fun goofery, and he narrates his hectic moments out loud like it's all a big video game or comic book. Add in a TV meteorolgist who's way smarter than she lets on and a shortsighted, gluttonous mayor, and there's pretty much your plot in a To Go bag.Ĭartoon tinkerers like Flint have been all the rage the past decade or so, but besides the usual list of humiliating public failures, he also brings a wholly identifiable kind of enthusiasm.
They add characters and gadgets: The food storms don't just happen in the film – they spring from a gadget dreamed up by wannabe inventor Flint Lockwood. So, how did they get a 90-minute movie out of that book?
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