"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" might have been better as a short film than a feature. Although the premise is delicious, and some of the visual gags tickle the funnybone, there isn't enough story ...

PG. 95 minutes. At areat theaters. The original “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” was a sweet treat of an adaptation of the 1982 book by Judi and Ron Barrett. From the visual smorgasbord — ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

There are no showtimes for Meatballs. You can stream it or buy it on digital platforms below. Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for Bill Murray's first ...

Harvey Atkin, the Canadian actor who played the summer camp director Morty in “Meatballs,” has died. He was 74. Harvey Atkin and Bill Murray judge a hot dog-eating contest between Peter Hume and Keith ...

Writer Rich Cohen celebrates 1979's 'Meatballs,' a film less important for being great cinema (it wasn't) than for inaugurating the persona that would define Gen-X's most perfectly sarcastic star, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- If you believe everything you've heard about the 1960s, people used to make a habit of getting high on a variety of illicit, mind-altering substances before sitting down to ...

The squibbly Minions of “Despicable Me 2” have some serious competition on being the cutest — and most quotable — cartoon creations this year. In “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2,” Barry the Berry ...

I generally find CG animation hit or miss these days, either being well constructed with a smart and savvy script (like most Pixar films) or cookie cutter generic ("Planet 51 or How To Train Your ...