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Triple bill of CGI-animated family comedies. ‘Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs’ (2009) features the voice talents of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Mr T
and James Caan. Flint Lockwood (Hader) is a fairly unsuccessful amateur
scientist who appears to have developed a device that will bring an end to world
hunger.
Unfortunately his invention, which causes food to rain out of the sky, ends up
causing more trouble than good as his town is flooded with more food than people
know what to do with. Flint and weather girl Sam (Faris) must try and figure out
what has gone wrong and save their town from disaster.
In ‘Open Season’ (2006), a domesticated grizzly bear called Boog (Martin
Lawrence) gets lured into leaving the creature comforts of home by a
fast-talking mule deer named Elliott (Ashton Kutcher) and finds himself lost in
the woods just three days before hunting season begins.
Forced to rough it in the great outdoors, Boog goes native, rallying all the
forest animals to take back their home and send the hunters packing.
In ‘Surf's Up’ (2007) Cody Maverick (Shia LeBeouf) is a young penguin
who dreams of winning the biggest penguin surfing competition of the year: the
Penguin World Surfing Championship. His pursuit of this goal becomes the chosen
subject of a team of documentary makers who go behind the scenes of the
competition and interview Cody, his friends and surfing fans along the way.
Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel and James Woods are among the actors who lend
their voices to the characters in the film.