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I'm still waiting for Doug to review Meteor Man, Postman, Repo Men, & Bicentennial Man. In my opinion, these are 4 underrated films that deserve to be talked about more.
The last scene genuinely made me tear up just because of how clever it is. He can't always get the words out, but after letting his thoughts do the talking, the one thing he can still say is he loves him. That is so sweet and well written.
@@DiegoHernandez-xt2su Dammit I didn't know James Caan died this year too!! I swear every actor I've admired growing up has died this year... Most recently Kevin Conroy.
My absolute favorite moment out of this movie was him asking his dad to email the file. As someone with completely tech illiterate parents who grew up to work in IT for a bank, this felt like emotional validation.
How cliche though that he literally loses the USB drive as soon as he says "imagine if we lost it". Sometimes I wish we could just have scenes like that without the jinx. Like say if several scenes earlier we are told that the drive is important, then in the rocket they lose it without that cliche line, and then as the audience we are left to think "oh shit, that thing was important" instead of the movie spelling it out mere seconds before it happens.
@@PikaLink91 We do get that a lot in films written for adults, we just don't think about it because it's normal story progression. This is a kids movie though, so you kind of have to make some of those allowances.
That image was funny when Tim’s monobrow was raised so much when Flint asked him to email a “kill code” to him, as the former has never used a computer before! 😂
Another Fun Fact i love about this really well done animated film is: According to the director's commentary on the DVD, Earl was going to be a gym teacher and part-time cop. His profession was changed to a full-time cop only, but they kept the gym teacher's short shorts on him.
This video made me realize that the nostalgia critic will never run out of material to review so long as movies are made because eventually everything becomes nostalgic.
One film on my bucket list I want to see him do a full review on is Spirit : Stallion of the Cimarron from 2002 Always loved that film, and now would be the right time IMO since it’s officially 20 years old now
Believe it or not back in the day he actually had a cut off date, anything past that date he wouldn't review because it wasnt considered nostalgic. Now hes so big he just reviews anything
@@mattb9054in fairness he had to remove it because he started running out of things he felt he could make a review out of. An instance was the war of the worlds old vs new he scrapped because he couldn’t make any good comparisons that would favor either.
Originally, instead of Flint going to the out-of-control FLDSMDFR, the mayor shot it out of the sky, and it fell into the ocean, creating a huge monster made entirely out of food. This was cut due to the resulting monster being too similar to one in another film that had just been released in early 2009. Smaller food monsters would eventually appear in the sequel.
Brent tossing away his diaper is symbolic of him liberating himself of his former image...and then you realize he's naked inside a giant chicken. Think about it from the chicken's point of view: It eats something (Brent) which then begins wearing it as a suit, controlling its every action - and it's presumably still alive and conscious, but helpless, from that point forward... A fate worse than death indeed!
Funny thing is, this is a hella entertaining level in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. Luigi gets partialy eaten by a monster inspired by those Cup-shaped bug-eating flowers, and hop around in the unconscious body xD
@@JackalopeBunny It's more a Grey area until the sequal. At this point it IS food and while it is the same in chemical makeup as roast chicken, it didn't exist as a typical living chicken first. It WAS intentionally made to be a roast chicken by the device. It is sentient in that it is attacking the heros but even at this point it is recognized almost like drones to a hive mind in protection if the food making device. We don't see Steve as a monster for biting the heads off of the living gummy bears because they are just food extentions of the device protecting itself from being shut off. The sequal movie however retcons this. In fact..it's part of the moral lesson and the prior actions are not ignored to make the new adventure work happier..Flynn is convinced to go to the island because he is under the false impression the sentient food will attack the world like it attacked him and his friends. He FULLY sees the food this way for a while and ACTIVELY detaches himself so he doesn't have to feel bad he is going to kill them all. It takes a lot from Sam and his other friends to admit the good creatures are actually amazing and intelligent individual beings. It's especially ironic as they see him as their God in that one instead of attacking him! It makes for a really cute story and the ending is especially dark and amazing when it comes to the villain: totally not Steve Jobs..but..you also realize despite having to do it to save the world..yeah..yhe chicken and gummy bears and things they had to kill to do so in the first movie..WERE possibly intelligent living beings rather than just puppets..I suppose since they were more just giant versions of real food over the amalgous creaters we would see in the sequal, you could argue they were a mid evolutionary step and hadn't achieved true independent sentience yet. It is still dark and kind of funny though. From the machine and foods perspective, the heros were the villains of the first movie..the sequal even starts right at the end of the first one so you know everything is continuously cannon. It's messed up but I love the studios for not just pretending things were different or ignoring them to lazily make the plot work. It's a rare occurrence of this and I feel it makes Flynns arc in the second one all that stronger. It's clear he sae the device and all it created as a piece of himself..the mistakes he made in the past and the part of him he desperately wanted to move on from. You can kind of forgive him for the way he treats the food creatures because he sees them as the same negative part of himself that nearly took everyone he loved. The villain is offering the future self he feels wants to be and the food creatures are the past he feels stuck in. It's only when he can forgive his mistakes and see the positive that came from them that he didn't orgionlaly intend, that he can do the right thing. He didn't directly make the food creatures but they are a result of his creation. They weren't what he planned but they still were amazing and deserving of life. A few potentionally sentient roast chickens had to die in the process but he kind of WAS their God and it paved the way for a whole mess of confirmedly sentient and very intellegent beings.
Tim (Flint’s dad) has one of the best designs for a animated character, he looks like he just has eyebrows instead of eyes. He really should do business with Massimo (the one-armed fisherman from “Luca”) as they look similar & BOTH are fishermen. I’m surprised that Doug didn’t make any comparisons, or even make any sex jokes related to fishing (you can surprisingly get a lot of them). I honestly would KILL for an animated Christmas movie where Santa Claus looks like them, with eyebrows instead of eyes!
Another interesting fact about this film is: To make the sound of falling hamburgers, sound officials used wet rags and slapped them on wood. Snapping celery was used to make the sound of bones breaking.
Honestly, some of the background gags are so funny. Like how Sam's assistant, Manny was a doctor, a pilot and so many amazing things before he became a camera man in America, or how the TV with legs is just running around still, causing chaos
What made me laugh is when the television store had its window busted in, a man steals a TV. Then the walking TV shatters the window and steals a man from inside the store. 😂
You know for a non Disney film this really blew me away for how smooth and well done the animation is, and it really shows any big time company can make Animation work if you do it well.
I've always felt like the sequel is a movie you could enjoy even with the sound off. The animation is just so fluid and active, and just all around fun to watch.
Interestingly, around the time this came out, Disney was still kinda struggling with making top tier CG films imo Then again, Cloudy would be really hard to visually topple even today lol
The whole point of the glasses and scrunchie scene was more than just a “funny twist”, it was there to show that Flint, due to similar bullying when he was a child, is the first person to empathise and accept Sam, not just for her looks, but also encouraging her self-esteem, passion for science, and loved her for who she is. And when I was a kid, I always despised the “You’re actually really beautiful, just take off those lame glasses, be hot enough, and men will fall for you”, but here, that scene subverting the cliche was uplifting and surprisingly poignant. On the same note, Brent didn’t just come along at the end for the sake of it, he chose to because it’s shown throughout the movie that he felt insecure over losing his job and popularity, causing him to lose his sense of self-worth, until Earl’s speech calling out the town for being so greedy and selfish, humbling Brent, who decides to find his own identity, and help out, ultimately becoming Chicken Brent, turning a 1-dimensional bully into a selfless, kind courageous hero.
I watched it back in 2011 on big fun movies. And then 6 years later the channel that big fun movies was part of made an animated series of the movie which has little to do with the Movie itself.
There are also some hilarious background gags you don’t catch on a first viewing *The text at the bottom of the news screen is a riot and you need to pause the movie to read it *Flint’s living TV popping up in the background several times as it’s own character (even stealing a human from the tv store during the food storm) *Pretty much everything Steve does in the background *The guy who gets a macaroni stuck on his head faces backwards in crowd shots in every scene after he’s shown *England’s sky going gray and dull even after the food storm *Earl the cop making a huge T shaped hole in the nacho he jumps through while rescuing his family
If I want to make my sister bust out laughing no matter how serious the situation I just say "you are about to be crushed by a giant corn" I love this movie. It doesn't go over the top with the meta, ironic, humor like it's sequel. I think it's just wonderfully creative despite it's cliches
Do not even talk about the sequel. The very idea that it is bad to hunt mutated food to eat disgusts me. As well as how they have the villain being eaen by them!!!!
@@chloenieuwsma4846 Yes, it was. The message was awful on par with Avatar as i mentioned and jurassic world where a litle clone girl effecively kills who knows how many people by unleashing a bunch of dinosaurs.
By that point the movie makes it pretty clear they aren’t mutated good anymore, the animals of the island are actual animals with salience at times of a close level to humans. And the movie does make the point that all the problems with theanimals started from the villain deciding to invade the island, since if you think about it a bit they literally wouldn’t be capable of expanding outside its surroundings (since they don’t reproduce by themselves, they need the machine for it) and as far as we can tell their actions to humans outside the island boiled down to scaring the crap out of sailors
Everyting that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller touch (whether as directors, writers and producers) is pure gold. They are in my opinion one the greatest duos in cinema
I forget for what reason, but the part where the dad finally raises his eyebrows enough to see his eyes absolutely killed me 😂 You spend the whole movie thinking that he doesn't really have any, I wasn't prepared for them to really be shown!
I honestly love this movie. As a kid, this was one of my favorites and I would watch it a ton. I hadn’t for a few years, but I rewatched it again in April and I thought it held up pretty well and isn’t just another “movie you thought was good as a kid but was actually bad”
This is actually a pretty decent take on the story book classic. I know they changed some stuff, like in the book the food weather was just something that happened instead of being an invention but its works here. I like the characters (the policeman played by Mr. T being a major highlight, he just gives 100 percent to his role.) I also like Sam and Flint relationship and as well as the relationship Flint has with his dad, its clear they love each other but have a hard time connecting. Now I guess it does have some…silly moments, but that comes with the territory of its being a kid’s film and I cant really think of too many scenes that are there to appeal to just them. It also nice there no dance part ending, no fart jokes, and I’m pretty sure no liar revealed. I also really like the near the end the cop saves flint from the mob by saying that EVERONE shares blame for what happened. It’s a good movie, probably not a classic by any means but one that could easily be viewed by kids.
Fun Fact: The hallway entrance to the lab is a nod to the hallway Frank Poole is blasted through in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In addition, the curtain at the end of the hallway to the lab has a Red Circle in the center, reminiscent of the glowing red eye of the Computer HAL from that film.
Yeah, this was Lord and Miller's first movie, so it was never going to be perfect, but it is a very good movie regardless of its flaws, and I'm glad we still have the two of them making movies together after all these years
I love the back ground characters in this movie, like when everyone in the town is shocked there’s a guy who just takes his beard off, there’s a stack of three kids that just walk around on top of eachother for no reason
This movie and A Goofy Movie are the two animated movies that make me feel closer to my dad because of their stories. He’s introverted, I am not much like the dynamics in these movies. We love each other but we don’t understand each other. I’m glad these two movies exist for that reason, they make me feel closer to him, like I understand him.
That's so nice! That's my favorite things about storytelling, creating character dynamics that encourage real world understanding, gratefulness, and even change.
I'm still waiting for Doug to review Meteor Man, Postman, Repo Men, & Bicentennial Man. In my opinion, these are 4 underrated films that deserve to be talked about more.
I love all the little details that this film has. In the beginning Flint narrates and says "...when all seemed lost, I stared at defeat (da/the feet) and found hope." In the end he literally stares at his feet and finds the solution to his problem. Or like how Flint sees the mayor come into his lab and asks (considering his size) how he even came into the lab. Literally questioning the cartoon logic. Or how his lab is cheaply made and he makes sci-fi noises himself, and how his passcode to his elevator is just him pressing random buttons of a toy he probably taped on his wall. This movie is so great because of the amount of care and thought that went into it.
I think this film works well for both kids and adults, because kids can look at the colorful animation and the great voice work and the parents can get sucked in by how intriguing the story is.
People can say whatever they want about this movie, I f*cking love it. I used to love the sequel as a kid, but I think I've watched it so many goddamn times that I might've gotten sick of it, which kinda sucks because even though I'm older, when I watch it, my brain just rejects it like it's my favourite food gone moldy. I suppose I just ruined it for myself, but oh well.
I can't believe I didn't think this film would be interesting to me as a kid. I'm so glad I eventually ended up seeing it and have so much appreciation for what it does in terms of animation and storytelling. Easily one of the most unique creations made off of a book, even if it basically has nothing to do with it.
You can actually sort of tell that the creators and writers of Spider verse and LEGO Movie did this film just by the tone itself. I love it when a writer(s) have their own style to make their films more distinguishable.
@@Gambit771 that's fine, if it personally isn't in your taste of films. I personally loved it when it came out back in 2014, but I know that not every film is perfect so I can see someone having some problems here and there.
I remember seeing this movie for my end of school year breakup, and I loved it! I was so ecstatic when I saw the trailer for the first time earlier that year and couldn't wait for it. It didn't disappoint. It was so good that I actually went back a second time to watch it in 3D, and I have no regrets. That whole scene where Tim attempts to send Flint the kill code with no clue of how a computer works just had me crying tears of laughter. And Mr. T never fails to be cool, even when he's animated. Great review, and I'm looking forward to Commercials next week. 👍
Bill Hader is a very talented comedian. His impressions are hilarious, he seems very kind, he's hilarious, he can take on dramatic roles. Which is why I'm surprised he isn't in at least 5 movies per year. I always like hearing when he's cast in something. I wasn't a big fan of IT Chapter Two, but I was excited to hear he was cast. Even the kid he was playing an adult-version of was the one who cast him. When asked who he would want to play an adult-version of him, he immediately said "Bill Hader".
I still remember going to this film as a kid and me, my brother and my mom we're the only people in the theatre watching this film it was a amazing time
In most movies, it would be funny enough just having him as a walking eyebrow for the whole movie. But the scene where he makes Flint look him in the eye, and that brow just levitates and shows those beady little eyes underneath, that's a difference-maker.
I was a little late to this movie (but not twelve years late) but fell in love with it almost immediately. Only later did I realize it was my introduction to the genius of Lord and Miller. I especially love the little touches, like the guy with the trucker hat who is inexplicably in every scene, or when Sam says "that tornado was just an amuse-bouche compared to what's coming next" and someone in the crowd whispers, "what's an amuse-bouche?"
There is a clever connection between the opening narration and the final battle. In the opening narration flint said this “when everything seemed lost, I looked at defeat and found hope” at the end of that sentence they show a brief shot of him looking at the camera with a surprised face. Then during the final battle between flint and the fldsmdfr they repeat the exact same shot, and it is exactly during the moment when Flint runs out of ideas, but then he looks at his spray on shoes, the thing that made him look bad in school, and he find’s another idea with the spray on shoes to defeat the machine, that was exactly the moment when they repeat the shot. It makes sense when you really think about it. Flint was running out of ideas to turn the machine off and the world was getting destroyed (everything seemed lost) but then he looked at his spray on shoes (he looked at defeat) and then he saw the spray on shoes as another chance to turn the machine off and save the world (he found hope).
One of the questions I had from this movie was how did Flints feet grow into adult feet with the Spray on Shoe, shouldn't his feet have been the size they were before the spray?
@@teleportingpotatoe the spray on shoes can’t come off they’re stuck to his feet forever, Flint will die and those things will still be stuck to his skeleton
One of my top ten animated films of all time. It’s so creative and inventive despite the few kid’s film cliches. It also introduced me to Lord and Miller, whose writing style I immediately fell in love with. The insane amount of running gags, callbacks, and background gags elevate this film even more. Phenomenal animation, cast, and writing. Love it.
especially how eager he was to help flint some way or another but it turned out THE ONE THING he could do is the most difficult thing for him is mundane but it is hilarious
@@spongeintheshoe Man, thanks for replying to this, I just wrote a depressing as shit dissertation of a comment on another video and it was kind of bumming me out. I'm glad you reminded me of this stupid scene. Peace man!
Same here, there was a time as a kid where we ate nothing but cheap spaghetti This book was an escape for me where I could imagine myself in a world where I could eat whatever I craved because money wasn't an issue
I sometimes randomly remember the father using the mouse on the screen and I forgot it was from this movie. I forgot how good this movie is considering the crap it was up against around that same time
Definitely one of the best animated movies based off of a children's book. It's faithful to the source material, build's on the book's premise, and makes the necessary changes to work as a movie.
Both the book and the film were so great i read the original book when i was just a kid and even then as a teen seeing this film it was really good and very heartwarming to say the least especially with the family dynamic. i love the weird sciencey twist in it that makes it more interesting but the book will always be one of my favorites so i can gladly say why not love them both?
Hey Doug! Just want to say I had a great time at the con, and it was awesome and a pleasure to meet the cast! Hope you all enjoyed the convention as well!
I love Bruce Campbell in this and overall think this is a fun movie. I was also concerned since I was a fan of the book as a child but it easily won me over.
This movie was an important one for because I had a really hard time back in middle from all the stress that I got a lot and had to miss school. When I was at a store one day and Cloudy with a Chance of meatballs I picked it up and watched it three times that day. And this is the movie gave me some inspiration for animation. And I have to say this is one of my favorite movies of all time, top 5 even. It’s also great to see Doug give a fair review of this gem. See Animat this is how you do a review, and without attacking the people who made it.
I really liked how they portrayed the machine’s decent into madness (for lack of a better term). It gradually keeps building up the meatball around it, and I honestly found it kinda unsettling how it’s voice glitches and stutters between multiple different voices as if it was being possessed or something. I have no idea how Phil Lord and Chris Miller were able to make a machine that literally turns into a giant meatball and spits out giant food intimidating, but they somehow managed to do it.
I may be in a slight minority, but this is one of the few films in the world I truly consider to be a "perfect movie". The humor and pacing just hit so perfectly for me as the story threads expertly weave themselves together into an ever escalating narrative with a glorious climax.
I have seen this movie ONCE, around the time it was released. I was 19. Jump ahead ten years to a surgery I have, and as I'm waking up, drugged and hurting, my nurse introduces himself. His name is Steve. I say in response, "Steeeeeeve! YELLOW!" When I ask to call my mom and they give me my phone after finding her number on it, I put her on speaker and tell her my nurse's name is Steve and to say hello to him, she also says, "Steeeeve! YELLOW!" Needless to say, Steve thought we were a family of crazy people.
I read the book on this film when I was a kid and I know the film's not perfect but I enjoy it as I'm coincidentally watching it right now so I've been waiting for you to do a review on this film ever since you mentioned it a couple of times so thanks for making my Wednesday feel a lot better ❤️❤️❤️
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Andy Samberg might be thinking about is “I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Steampunk. But I will say, it’s the healthiest way to prepare punk.”
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I'm still waiting for Doug to review Meteor Man, Postman, Repo Men, & Bicentennial Man. In my opinion, these are 4 underrated films that deserve to be talked about more.
Review Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2 next please Doug.
This movie is one of my favorites.
I like it
Review Barnyard (2006) please Doug.
The last scene genuinely made me tear up just because of how clever it is. He can't always get the words out, but after letting his thoughts do the talking, the one thing he can still say is he loves him. That is so sweet and well written.
And also a greatly acted performance from James Caan. May he Rest In Peace.
@@hunterolaughlin R.I.P James Caan 😢
@@DiegoHernandez-xt2su I miss him.
@@chasehedges6775 me too
@@DiegoHernandez-xt2su Dammit I didn't know James Caan died this year too!!
I swear every actor I've admired growing up has died this year... Most recently Kevin Conroy.
My absolute favorite moment out of this movie was him asking his dad to email the file. As someone with completely tech illiterate parents who grew up to work in IT for a bank, this felt like emotional validation.
Then you should check out near the end of Mitchell's Versus the Machines with the dad.
Absolutely true for me too! Stay strong my brother.
How cliche though that he literally loses the USB drive as soon as he says "imagine if we lost it". Sometimes I wish we could just have scenes like that without the jinx. Like say if several scenes earlier we are told that the drive is important, then in the rocket they lose it without that cliche line, and then as the audience we are left to think "oh shit, that thing was important" instead of the movie spelling it out mere seconds before it happens.
@@PikaLink91 We do get that a lot in films written for adults, we just don't think about it because it's normal story progression. This is a kids movie though, so you kind of have to make some of those allowances.
That image was funny when Tim’s monobrow was raised so much when Flint asked him to email a “kill code” to him, as the former has never used a computer before! 😂
Another Fun Fact i love about this really well done animated film is: According to the director's commentary on the DVD, Earl was going to be a gym teacher and part-time cop. His profession was changed to a full-time cop only, but they kept the gym teacher's short shorts on him.
No he’s a volunteer cop
God bless those shorts.
@@DanteKrystal
Joe from Family Guy: Who wears short shorts? *I WEAR SHORT SHORTS!!!!*
What’s more is that in the tv show series they made him a part-time teacher
How is that commentary? I like them but some can be boring.
This video made me realize that the nostalgia critic will never run out of material to review so long as movies are made because eventually everything becomes nostalgic.
One film on my bucket list I want to see him do a full review on is Spirit : Stallion of the Cimarron from 2002
Always loved that film, and now would be the right time IMO since it’s officially 20 years old now
He could do some anime too
That's true. New Movies that came out when he started nostalgia critic, could now be reviewed as nostalgic.
Believe it or not back in the day he actually had a cut off date, anything past that date he wouldn't review because it wasnt considered nostalgic. Now hes so big he just reviews anything
@@mattb9054in fairness he had to remove it because he started running out of things he felt he could make a review out of. An instance was the war of the worlds old vs new he scrapped because he couldn’t make any good comparisons that would favor either.
Originally, instead of Flint going to the out-of-control FLDSMDFR, the mayor shot it out of the sky, and it fell into the ocean, creating a huge monster made entirely out of food. This was cut due to the resulting monster being too similar to one in another film that had just been released in early 2009. Smaller food monsters would eventually appear in the sequel.
What movie are you referring to?
What movie are you talking about?
Monsters vs alien
What other movie ya moron
Monsters vs aliens or monster house
I die at that "snowball" fight every time. I spend minutes laughing with legit tears in my eyes. It's just so sudden and he obliterates those kids.
Doom (1993)
Brent tossing away his diaper is symbolic of him liberating himself of his former image...and then you realize he's naked inside a giant chicken. Think about it from the chicken's point of view: It eats something (Brent) which then begins wearing it as a suit, controlling its every action - and it's presumably still alive and conscious, but helpless, from that point forward... A fate worse than death indeed!
Funny thing is, this is a hella entertaining level in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. Luigi gets partialy eaten by a monster inspired by those Cup-shaped bug-eating flowers, and hop around in the unconscious body xD
That chicken is kind of like the Cybugs in Wreck-it Ralph.
From big baby to chicken .
Right I always thought how awful that was, like did he kill the chicken and is wearing it's dead body?
@@JackalopeBunny It's more a Grey area until the sequal. At this point it IS food and while it is the same in chemical makeup as roast chicken, it didn't exist as a typical living chicken first. It WAS intentionally made to be a roast chicken by the device. It is sentient in that it is attacking the heros but even at this point it is recognized almost like drones to a hive mind in protection if the food making device. We don't see Steve as a monster for biting the heads off of the living gummy bears because they are just food extentions of the device protecting itself from being shut off. The sequal movie however retcons this. In fact..it's part of the moral lesson and the prior actions are not ignored to make the new adventure work happier..Flynn is convinced to go to the island because he is under the false impression the sentient food will attack the world like it attacked him and his friends. He FULLY sees the food this way for a while and ACTIVELY detaches himself so he doesn't have to feel bad he is going to kill them all. It takes a lot from Sam and his other friends to admit the good creatures are actually amazing and intelligent individual beings. It's especially ironic as they see him as their God in that one instead of attacking him! It makes for a really cute story and the ending is especially dark and amazing when it comes to the villain: totally not Steve Jobs..but..you also realize despite having to do it to save the world..yeah..yhe chicken and gummy bears and things they had to kill to do so in the first movie..WERE possibly intelligent living beings rather than just puppets..I suppose since they were more just giant versions of real food over the amalgous creaters we would see in the sequal, you could argue they were a mid evolutionary step and hadn't achieved true independent sentience yet. It is still dark and kind of funny though. From the machine and foods perspective, the heros were the villains of the first movie..the sequal even starts right at the end of the first one so you know everything is continuously cannon. It's messed up but I love the studios for not just pretending things were different or ignoring them to lazily make the plot work. It's a rare occurrence of this and I feel it makes Flynns arc in the second one all that stronger. It's clear he sae the device and all it created as a piece of himself..the mistakes he made in the past and the part of him he desperately wanted to move on from. You can kind of forgive him for the way he treats the food creatures because he sees them as the same negative part of himself that nearly took everyone he loved. The villain is offering the future self he feels wants to be and the food creatures are the past he feels stuck in. It's only when he can forgive his mistakes and see the positive that came from them that he didn't orgionlaly intend, that he can do the right thing. He didn't directly make the food creatures but they are a result of his creation. They weren't what he planned but they still were amazing and deserving of life. A few potentionally sentient roast chickens had to die in the process but he kind of WAS their God and it paved the way for a whole mess of confirmedly sentient and very intellegent beings.
It's a small thing, but the fact Lincoln gets hit in the back of the head with the giant pie is a chef's kiss level of detail.
I saw that while watching this and I'm ashamed it's taken this long to realize
This movie is amazing. Hilarious and heartwarming with some of the most quotable lines in animation.
F L I N T. L O C K W O O D !
In woooooo
@CalderaMan Definitely! Me and my husband quote it all the time. Almost every sentence is super memorable and quotable!
And memes
Tim (Flint’s dad) has one of the best designs for a animated character, he looks like he just has eyebrows instead of eyes. He really should do business with Massimo (the one-armed fisherman from “Luca”) as they look similar & BOTH are fishermen. I’m surprised that Doug didn’t make any comparisons, or even make any sex jokes related to fishing (you can surprisingly get a lot of them).
I honestly would KILL for an animated Christmas movie where Santa Claus looks like them, with eyebrows instead of eyes!
Massimo's design is definitely inspired by this character.
At first you think its just the white fluff of his Christmas hat covering his eyes, then he takes it off and reveals its eyebrows lol
I wanna see that
Another interesting fact about this film is: To make the sound of falling hamburgers, sound officials used wet rags and slapped them on wood. Snapping celery was used to make the sound of bones breaking.
I thought they used dry wood for the bones braking.
There is a scene where someone snaps a stick of celery in half. Maybe the foley artists broke someone's leg for that sound effect
The actors actually ate hamburgers to make the talking with mouth full accurate sounding
Honestly, some of the background gags are so funny. Like how Sam's assistant, Manny was a doctor, a pilot and so many amazing things before he became a camera man in America, or how the TV with legs is just running around still, causing chaos
What made me laugh is when the television store had its window busted in, a man steals a TV. Then the walking TV shatters the window and steals a man from inside the store. 😂
_When animated movies have food looking more delicious than IRL_
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Add Ratatouille to that list
Don’t forget the Naco from Kim Possible.
Add Shokugeki no Soma.
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Let’s not ignore the fact that the music in this movie is incredible. It’s so filled with magic and fantasy to assist the story and it’s so pretty.
The soundtrack to this movie is so good.
This movie’s soundtrack is one that I remember vividly even though it’s been 10 years since I’ve seen it. It’s so powerful and so memorable.
Fun Fact: The score is done by the same guy who did the score for Rugrats.
@@hunterolaughlinit’s the legendary Mark Mothersbaugh from DEVO.
You know for a non Disney film this really blew me away for how smooth and well done the animation is, and it really shows any big time company can make Animation work if you do it well.
I've always felt like the sequel is a movie you could enjoy even with the sound off. The animation is just so fluid and active, and just all around fun to watch.
Ya because grendy work on this baby. The guy who made samurai Jack
Small time companies do it as well.
@@yuvalgabay1023 I know he worked on Hotel Transylvania, but I don't remember him being credited for this.
Interestingly, around the time this came out, Disney was still kinda struggling with making top tier CG films imo
Then again, Cloudy would be really hard to visually topple even today lol
The whole point of the glasses and scrunchie scene was more than just a “funny twist”, it was there to show that Flint, due to similar bullying when he was a child, is the first person to empathise and accept Sam, not just for her looks, but also encouraging her self-esteem, passion for science, and loved her for who she is. And when I was a kid, I always despised the “You’re actually really beautiful, just take off those lame glasses, be hot enough, and men will fall for you”, but here, that scene subverting the cliche was uplifting and surprisingly poignant.
On the same note, Brent didn’t just come along at the end for the sake of it, he chose to because it’s shown throughout the movie that he felt insecure over losing his job and popularity, causing him to lose his sense of self-worth, until Earl’s speech calling out the town for being so greedy and selfish, humbling Brent, who decides to find his own identity, and help out, ultimately becoming Chicken Brent, turning a 1-dimensional bully into a selfless, kind courageous hero.
This movie is a childhood classic and one of the best films of 2009
I watched it back in 2011 on big fun movies. And then 6 years later the channel that big fun movies was part of made an animated series of the movie which has little to do with the Movie itself.
@@okjeffy6581 why do people even do that, anyway? If you’re gonna name it after something, it should be related to it in some meaningful way.
@@IamaPERSON I enjoyed the first episode but lost interest on the rest of the series
@@okjeffy6581 i haven’t watched the show, but I remember my cousin watching it when it came out.
@@okjeffy6581 The 2nd film was also unfortunately a letdown too.
It’s not the worst, but it’s quite boring and forgettable.
Also felt like a rehash
There are also some hilarious background gags you don’t catch on a first viewing
*The text at the bottom of the news screen is a riot and you need to pause the movie to read it
*Flint’s living TV popping up in the background several times as it’s own character (even stealing a human from the tv store during the food storm)
*Pretty much everything Steve does in the background
*The guy who gets a macaroni stuck on his head faces backwards in crowd shots in every scene after he’s shown
*England’s sky going gray and dull even after the food storm
*Earl the cop making a huge T shaped hole in the nacho he jumps through while rescuing his family
If I want to make my sister bust out laughing no matter how serious the situation I just say "you are about to be crushed by a giant corn" I love this movie. It doesn't go over the top with the meta, ironic, humor like it's sequel. I think it's just wonderfully creative despite it's cliches
Do not even talk about the sequel. The very idea that it is bad to hunt mutated food to eat disgusts me. As well as how they have the villain being eaen by them!!!!
@Raximus3000 oh come on the sequel wasn't that bad.
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Yes, it was. The message was awful on par with Avatar as i mentioned and jurassic world where a litle clone girl effecively kills who knows how many people by unleashing a bunch of dinosaurs.
@@Raximus3000 Wow....
By that point the movie makes it pretty clear they aren’t mutated good anymore, the animals of the island are actual animals with salience at times of a close level to humans.
And the movie does make the point that all the problems with theanimals started from the villain deciding to invade the island, since if you think about it a bit they literally wouldn’t be capable of expanding outside its surroundings (since they don’t reproduce by themselves, they need the machine for it) and as far as we can tell their actions to humans outside the island boiled down to scaring the crap out of sailors
The Mayor is actually feels a representation of Nikocado Avocado.
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Nice 👍
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Except I like the mayor
Everyting that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller touch (whether as directors, writers and producers) is pure gold. They are in my opinion one the greatest duos in cinema
I wish they were not kickrd off Solo.
They done alot of good but I can name one bad project of there's since you decided to include producers hoops
I love how they actually set up the peanut allergy with a throw away line earlier in the movie
I really can't believe this film was released almost 15 years ago because the animation and art work look still so well done and beautiful
I forget for what reason, but the part where the dad finally raises his eyebrows enough to see his eyes absolutely killed me 😂 You spend the whole movie thinking that he doesn't really have any, I wasn't prepared for them to really be shown!
I loved that bit. I think that's when the dad asks Flint to "look me in the eye and tell me you've got this under control." XD
When he sees Flint's lab even his mustache lifts up and you can see his mouth 😆
I freaking love the movie! Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs is the best food-theme animated movie every, next to Ratatouille.
Honestly I don't know too many food theme animated movies. What else is there?
@@nekonomicon2983 definitely not food fight lol
@@nekonomicon2983 Sausage party? Not a kids film but that was never specified
@@nekonomicon2983 Veggietales
lol its so true
I honestly love this movie. As a kid, this was one of my favorites and I would watch it a ton. I hadn’t for a few years, but I rewatched it again in April and I thought it held up pretty well and isn’t just another “movie you thought was good as a kid but was actually bad”
I loved Alpha and Omega as a kid but now that I’m 14 I dislike the show! I still love Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs even today!
This is actually a pretty decent take on the story book classic. I know they changed some stuff, like in the book the food weather was just something that happened instead of being an invention but its works here. I like the characters (the policeman played by Mr. T being a major highlight, he just gives 100 percent to his role.) I also like Sam and Flint relationship and as well as the relationship Flint has with his dad, its clear they love each other but have a hard time connecting. Now I guess it does have some…silly moments, but that comes with the territory of its being a kid’s film and I cant really think of too many scenes that are there to appeal to just them. It also nice there no dance part ending, no fart jokes, and I’m pretty sure no liar revealed. I also really like the near the end the cop saves flint from the mob by saying that EVERONE shares blame for what happened. It’s a good movie, probably not a classic by any means but one that could easily be viewed by kids.
Maybe the most overlooked detail. She is understandably apprehensive when they 1st go in the jello, but she sees the exit sign and can relax.
Oh neat! Never realized and I just rewatched it!
Fun Fact: The hallway entrance to the lab is a nod to the hallway Frank Poole is blasted through in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In addition, the curtain at the end of the hallway to the lab has a Red Circle in the center, reminiscent of the glowing red eye of the Computer HAL from that film.
Yeah, this was Lord and Miller's first movie, so it was never going to be perfect, but it is a very good movie regardless of its flaws, and I'm glad we still have the two of them making movies together after all these years
I love the back ground characters in this movie, like when everyone in the town is shocked there’s a guy who just takes his beard off, there’s a stack of three kids that just walk around on top of eachother for no reason
This movie and A Goofy Movie are the two animated movies that make me feel closer to my dad because of their stories. He’s introverted, I am not much like the dynamics in these movies. We love each other but we don’t understand each other. I’m glad these two movies exist for that reason, they make me feel closer to him, like I understand him.
That's so nice! That's my favorite things about storytelling, creating character dynamics that encourage real world understanding, gratefulness, and even change.
I'm still waiting for Doug to review Meteor Man, Postman, Repo Men, & Bicentennial Man. In my opinion, these are 4 underrated films that deserve to be talked about more.
Finally nice to see a fellow Bicentennial Man enjoyer
@@CacoQueen: In my opinion, Bicentennial Man was Robin Williams' most underrated film/performance.
All of these have man/men in the title 😆 That's a pretty funny coincidence
Bit of a spoiler below, you've been warned.
I believe Doug has mentioned he is fan on downer endings, so his taje on Rwpo Men might be neat.
His next month should be "Obscure Film Month"
I love all the little details that this film has. In the beginning Flint narrates and says "...when all seemed lost, I stared at defeat (da/the feet) and found hope." In the end he literally stares at his feet and finds the solution to his problem.
Or like how Flint sees the mayor come into his lab and asks (considering his size) how he even came into the lab. Literally questioning the cartoon logic.
Or how his lab is cheaply made and he makes sci-fi noises himself, and how his passcode to his elevator is just him pressing random buttons of a toy he probably taped on his wall.
This movie is so great because of the amount of care and thought that went into it.
Yoooo I never noticed the "deafet" line after many rewatches.. that's cool
I think this film works well for both kids and adults, because kids can look at the colorful animation and the great voice work and the parents can get sucked in by how intriguing the story is.
People can say whatever they want about this movie, I f*cking love it. I used to love the sequel as a kid, but I think I've watched it so many goddamn times that I might've gotten sick of it, which kinda sucks because even though I'm older, when I watch it, my brain just rejects it like it's my favourite food gone moldy. I suppose I just ruined it for myself, but oh well.
I can't believe I didn't think this film would be interesting to me as a kid. I'm so glad I eventually ended up seeing it and have so much appreciation for what it does in terms of animation and storytelling. Easily one of the most unique creations made off of a book, even if it basically has nothing to do with it.
You can actually sort of tell that the creators and writers of Spider verse and LEGO Movie did this film just by the tone itself. I love it when a writer(s) have their own style to make their films more distinguishable.
Lego movie was so terrible.
@@Gambit771 that's fine, if it personally isn't in your taste of films. I personally loved it when it came out back in 2014, but I know that not every film is perfect so I can see someone having some problems here and there.
@@Gambit771can I ask what was so terrible about it?
That part with the dad with the monkey translator was pretty touching now that I think about it.
I remember seeing this movie for my end of school year breakup, and I loved it! I was so ecstatic when I saw the trailer for the first time earlier that year and couldn't wait for it. It didn't disappoint. It was so good that I actually went back a second time to watch it in 3D, and I have no regrets.
That whole scene where Tim attempts to send Flint the kill code with no clue of how a computer works just had me crying tears of laughter. And Mr. T never fails to be cool, even when he's animated.
Great review, and I'm looking forward to Commercials next week. 👍
I love this movie.
It’s one of the best animated films, period.
It’s a classic.
Agreed. The movie still holds up to this day, I love it
Bill Hader is a very talented comedian. His impressions are hilarious, he seems very kind, he's hilarious, he can take on dramatic roles. Which is why I'm surprised he isn't in at least 5 movies per year. I always like hearing when he's cast in something. I wasn't a big fan of IT Chapter Two, but I was excited to hear he was cast. Even the kid he was playing an adult-version of was the one who cast him. When asked who he would want to play an adult-version of him, he immediately said "Bill Hader".
I still remember going to this film as a kid and me, my brother and my mom we're the only people in the theatre watching this film it was a amazing time
You know for a film about falling food i was expecting so much tear jerking moments, but man i was wrong with how many there are
I loved the part where Doug called Flint's dad the Swedish Chef from The Muppets. It's funny because he DOES look like the Swedish Chef.
In most movies, it would be funny enough just having him as a walking eyebrow for the whole movie. But the scene where he makes Flint look him in the eye, and that brow just levitates and shows those beady little eyes underneath, that's a difference-maker.
Bjork!
I was a little late to this movie (but not twelve years late) but fell in love with it almost immediately. Only later did I realize it was my introduction to the genius of Lord and Miller.
I especially love the little touches, like the guy with the trucker hat who is inexplicably in every scene, or when Sam says "that tornado was just an amuse-bouche compared to what's coming next" and someone in the crowd whispers, "what's an amuse-bouche?"
Thank god some else notice that hat guy
I liked how they managed to replicate the illustration of the school covered in a pancake.
Plus adding the No school!!! joke
I remember watching this movie a lot in 2012 and 2013 because Cartoon Network always played it!
There is a clever connection between the opening narration and the final battle. In the opening narration flint said this “when everything seemed lost, I looked at defeat and found hope” at the end of that sentence they show a brief shot of him looking at the camera with a surprised face.
Then during the final battle between flint and the fldsmdfr they repeat the exact same shot, and it is exactly during the moment when Flint runs out of ideas, but then he looks at his spray on shoes, the thing that made him look bad in school, and he find’s another idea with the spray on shoes to defeat the machine, that was exactly the moment when they repeat the shot. It makes sense when you really think about it.
Flint was running out of ideas to turn the machine off and the world was getting destroyed (everything seemed lost) but then he looked at his spray on shoes (he looked at defeat) and then he saw the spray on shoes as another chance to turn the machine off and save the world (he found hope).
You know i could just look at the wonderful Animation and Art Work in this film and not get bored at looking at it for like several hours.
Like a cat video.
Fight the power!
How could he not address even in one sentence the comedy gold of a scene where Sam kicks Flint in the eyes
Honestly the animation in this film has no right being this good and yet it is, which makes me love it even more because of it
One of the questions I had from this movie was how did Flints feet grow into adult feet with the Spray on Shoe, shouldn't his feet have been the size they were before the spray?
I never thought of that! That is weird
Or even more horrific would Flint’s feet grow but be stuck in the constraints of the shoes and overtime break and snap
Maybe there elastic and grow alongside the wears feet size? That's my thought anyway.
wait...hes never taken off his "shoes"?
@@teleportingpotatoe the spray on shoes can’t come off they’re stuck to his feet forever, Flint will die and those things will still be stuck to his skeleton
You know for as crazy as this premise for this movie is, i think it pulls it off really well especially because it's a kid film.
It’s been years, I’ve found nostalgia critic again and it feels like a rush of nostalgia.
Critics can be a lot to swallow, but the Nostalgia Critic always makes me hungry for more with his content.
One of my top ten animated films of all time. It’s so creative and inventive despite the few kid’s film cliches. It also introduced me to Lord and Miller, whose writing style I immediately fell in love with. The insane amount of running gags, callbacks, and background gags elevate this film even more. Phenomenal animation, cast, and writing. Love it.
It’s always really wholesome when the Critic reviews a good movie!
If there's one thing I remember about this movie, it's how hard my mom laughed at the dad sending the email scene. Still one of her favorites
I remember seeing this movie as a kid. I used to think that the Spaghetti tornado scene was the scariest shit I've ever seen as a kid 😂
It was always the food avalanche/the giant bagel that terrified me.
I completely forgot about the scene where flint was teaching his dad how to send an email; that was perfect execution of a tied trope.
especially how eager he was to help flint some way or another but it turned out THE ONE THING he could do is the most difficult thing for him
is mundane but it is hilarious
Me when I talk to my mom about video games.
@@spongeintheshoe Man, thanks for replying to this, I just wrote a depressing as shit dissertation of a comment on another video and it was kind of bumming me out. I'm glad you reminded me of this stupid scene.
Peace man!
@@deltacharlieecho4732 I know, right.
I loved the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs book. I just loved the raining food parts and it always made me feel hungry.
Same here, there was a time as a kid where we ate nothing but cheap spaghetti
This book was an escape for me where I could imagine myself in a world where I could eat whatever I craved because money wasn't an issue
My favourite scene in the movie is for some reason: the Dad's face when he is told to email.
Because you see his eyes!
I know this might be a strong opinion to have but i still think this is some of the most beautiful animation we've ever gotten
16:58 I JUST noticed that the officer's hair is kinda the opposite of Mr.T's iconic hair. That's pretty clever.
I do enjoy Mr. T's character design having the complete opposite hairstyle as the actual Mr. T. Very clever detail
I sometimes randomly remember the father using the mouse on the screen and I forgot it was from this movie. I forgot how good this movie is considering the crap it was up against around that same time
Definitely one of the best animated movies based off of a children's book. It's faithful to the source material, build's on the book's premise, and makes the necessary changes to work as a movie.
I’m gonna be honest, this movie is a candidate for the most underrated animated film ever made. I honestly think it’s a genuine masterpiece
This movie is brilliant and vastly underrated, even by you, critic.
17:43 I was expecting him to cut to the clip of Sokka saying "Food eats people!"
I think this film was made because someone really wanted to see Bruce Campbell fight a giant Ice Cream monster
Both the book and the film were so great
i read the original book when i was just a kid and even then as a teen seeing this film it was really good and very heartwarming to say the least especially with the family dynamic. i love the weird sciencey twist in it that makes it more interesting but the book will always be one of my favorites so i can gladly say
why not love them both?
Hey Doug! Just want to say I had a great time at the con, and it was awesome and a pleasure to meet the cast! Hope you all enjoyed the convention as well!
Who knew Pigs would be such good Astronauts
How could you not talk about how Sam saw flint before and after the glasses.
20:44 Yes, that's literally the reason for it. I believe there's an earlier scene where they try to kiss but his nose gets in the way.
I love Bruce Campbell in this and overall think this is a fun movie. I was also concerned since I was a fan of the book as a child but it easily won me over.
Man this remake of Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a lot more wild than i thought it would be
One film I would like to see covered I remember seeing a lot on Disney Channel when I was little was Leave it To Beaver from 1997.
This movie and its sequel always makes me so freaking hungry even on a full stomach. The animators made the food look so damn gooood. (￣﹃￣)
One of my all-time favorite films, treat it well Doug
Edit: Okay Doug, you get to live for now
Am sure he will at least I hope so 😅also watch TH-cam channel bronc studios I have 583 viewers so far
Man who knew Danny DeVito would be so effective with a squirt gun against Wolverine.
This movie was an important one for because I had a really hard time back in middle from all the stress that I got a lot and had to miss school. When I was at a store one day and Cloudy with a Chance of meatballs I picked it up and watched it three times that day. And this is the movie gave me some inspiration for animation. And I have to say this is one of my favorite movies of all time, top 5 even. It’s also great to see Doug give a fair review of this gem.
See Animat this is how you do a review, and without attacking the people who made it.
I really liked how they portrayed the machine’s decent into madness (for lack of a better term). It gradually keeps building up the meatball around it, and I honestly found it kinda unsettling how it’s voice glitches and stutters between multiple different voices as if it was being possessed or something.
I have no idea how Phil Lord and Chris Miller were able to make a machine that literally turns into a giant meatball and spits out giant food intimidating, but they somehow managed to do it.
"I HAVE A MACARONI ON MY HEAD!" that line never fails to make me laugh
Same. That scene is sooo funny!
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The last pie Hit the back of the head because it was how he was assassinated
-alen tsai
The debut of Lord and Miller was the first movie of theirs i watched. And I love it.
The comedy really holds up for me. I love this film! "A film made by a lot of people" still cracks me up
3:57 Maybe that's what those hills in the background are. The A in Atlantic.
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You're forgetting one thing between this and Thor: Love and Thunder: Cloudy's CGI looked good then and still does today.
Honestly i still think this is one of the best animated films of the 21th century so far
The twenty-firth century.
Same here. It’s one of the best!
Just gotta say i'm a huge fan of Oscar the Grouch's new skin routine
I may be in a slight minority, but this is one of the few films in the world I truly consider to be a "perfect movie". The humor and pacing just hit so perfectly for me as the story threads expertly weave themselves together into an ever escalating narrative with a glorious climax.
You are not only in the silent majority but the only one to think that.
Same! Also, @Gambit771 , he's not the only one.
I have seen this movie ONCE, around the time it was released. I was 19. Jump ahead ten years to a surgery I have, and as I'm waking up, drugged and hurting, my nurse introduces himself. His name is Steve. I say in response, "Steeeeeeve! YELLOW!" When I ask to call my mom and they give me my phone after finding her number on it, I put her on speaker and tell her my nurse's name is Steve and to say hello to him, she also says, "Steeeeve! YELLOW!" Needless to say, Steve thought we were a family of crazy people.
This movie isn't a masterpiece, but it's fun enough that I'm proud to own it and it put Lord and Miller on the map. That's good enough for me.
18:54 At least you didn't get Jerry Smith's fortune cookie. If you watch Rick and Morty, you know what I'm talking about.
I read the book on this film when I was a kid and I know the film's not perfect but I enjoy it as I'm coincidentally watching it right now so I've been waiting for you to do a review on this film ever since you mentioned it a couple of times so thanks for making my Wednesday feel a lot better ❤️❤️❤️
there's a book??
@@Hal-fx9xx Yeah. Doug showed it multiple times at the beginning of the video.
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Andy Samberg might be thinking about is “I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Steampunk. But I will say, it’s the healthiest way to prepare punk.”