Goofy kids fun

One of my favorite kid's books is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The book tells the story of the town of Chewandswallow where precipitation is food and drink. The upcoming movie looks like it drops the framing device of a grandfather's tall tales and focuses on an inventor who creates a food weather machine. Io9 has the trailer. It certainly has a number of images from the book, like the pancakes that flatten the school and the eventual bombardment that makes the food more burden than blessing.

It looks potentially entertaining, but we shall see.