It’s a dark room, filled with parents enjoying the diminished responsibility that the cinema affords them, their offspring clutching oversized 3D goggles to their faces and staring intently at the screen. Suddenly the two main characters in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs are inside a massive mansion, made out of a large moulded jelly (or Jell-o as they call it in the States). One child shouts out ‘Jelly!!!’, and there are echoes of this word chirped around the room. As the characters begin to enjoy the jelly palace, diving and bouncing around, one kid simply shouts out ‘Yaaaaaaayyyyah!’ because of the sheer joy the animation has induced. I was sitting nearby, quietly experiencing a similar feeling. Later on, a monkey with a voice box is fighting sentient gummy bears on the wing of a flying car. The monkey pulls some Rafiki-esque moves, before confronting one gummy bear, plunging »
- Joe West

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