Movie Review "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"

You wanna know what is great in movies? Ok, ok, so there are lots of great things, but science in the movies has got to be up there as one of the best things about movies. There is nothing science can't accomplish...in the movies. Travel through light-years of space in minutes? No problem! Build an army of robots? Piece of cake! Reanimate the dead? They can do that in their sleep! Or the pièce de résistance, clone dinosaurs? Did it a hundred times! And you can do all of this in surprisingly little time with endless resources at your disposal. Seriously, science looks so incredibly awesome in the movies. Not so much in real life. Take it from me, a real life scientist. In real life it is slow. Real slow. I'm talking slooooooooowww. It is not too well funded. Sure you learn a lot...about mostly trivial and obscure things. Lastly and maybe most importantly, you aren't surrounded by beautifully geeky girls. Only in the movies could a kid create a new species of ratbird, or make a monkey speech translator, all within his fully functioning, supercomputer powered lab that he presumably built himself and still be considered a failure. Fortunately he found a way to mutate water into any food he wanted (if it rained BBQ ribs one day would you eat 'em? I know I would). Sure this caused a huge and dangerous problem, but it all worked out. Not only did this whole ordeal make him a celebrity and ultimately a hero, but he also got a beautifully geeky girlfriend in the whole deal. And hilarity ensued throughout. Only in the movies.