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Is anyone else looking forward to this film? I honestly had no interest in seeing this until I found out that Phil Lord and Chris Miller of Clone High fame are the directors and writers behind this film.

I keep seeing unfair backlash against this film among animation fans on the internet but I only chock that up to it falling into the "If it isn't a Pixar film, it automatically must be hated on" which seems to follow any non Pixar CGI animated film these days.

This film is getting pretty good reviews and the animation looks surprisingly great and fluid. The voice cast is also very impressive with Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Andy Samberg, Mr. T and Bruce Campbell.
 
I only know it from the initial trailer; liked the ratbird's "Squeaker-squeaker-SQUEAK!", but found the Mickey-sounding children disturbing... In any case, I'll probably check it out in conjunction with some other movies.

Coincidently, replying to this message, as I reply I spy the Clone High characters in the TZ random imager.
 
It does look pretty good. I'll see it when it comes on DVD.

If they released this a couple months earlier, it could have come on DVD around Thanksgiving.
 
It looks like a fun and nice movie to me from the trailers. I'll probably wait until it comes out on DVD since I'm not sure if I want to see it in theaters and besides that, I'll be busy with school work for most weekends for awhile.
 
I heard a lot of backlash about this film because people thought the book would be butchered when made into a movie.

I never read the book, but the movie has some pretty breathtaking animation. I'd see it in theaters, but a) I don't have any money, and b) I don't want to sit in a theater packed with screaming kids. So i'll just wait for the DVD.
 
I was surprised when I looked at rotten tomatoes. I really expected this movie to be negitive, not to have an 87% fresh rating (which it has at the moment) it looked like the generic CG crap that is released between the few good ones each year.
 
I'll most likely wait for this one to come out on DVD. I wasn't all that impressed by the trailer and a film has to be pretty darn impressive to make me want to go to a theater to see it.
 
Anyone who thinks a 1st grade children's book from 2 decades ago can be butchered is laughable. I still remember the story.

1. People ate food that dropped from the sky.
2. For reasons unknown, food storms started destroying the people's home.
3. The people were forced to leave, go to normal civilization, and go to grocery stores to get food.

Even if this film was made by Uwe Boll, with the given plot, all you can do is go up.
 
The previews look nothing like the children's book. Somethin' about a scientist . . . yeah, that wasn't in the book.

I'm not saying the movie will be bad, though. If it was really loyal to the story, it wouldn't have much substance.
 
I remember reading this in grade school so I'll probably check it out eventually, but yeah the movie has to be way more complicated than the book if only to fill time. And as far as I know the plot is way different and only applies the concept of food coinciding with weather, completely creating the reason why from scratch. Scientist trying to end world hunger was a good idea though.
 
Expanding a 12 page children's book to a 90 minute animated feature is no easy task. Instead of bashing it for being different, how about applaud it for being creative and expanding on the premise?

There's no way you can win these days adapting books (even 12 page children's books) Even, Watchmen was bashed for being TOO faithful to the source material.
 
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