4 stars U 
Review
If you feel you haven't got the stomach for yet another computer-animated feature then this tasty treat could well cleanse your weary palate.
Debut feature writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have served up a mouth-watering adaptation of Judi Barrett's children's story where food bizarrely falls out of the sky.
Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader) is a young oddball inventor whose hare-brained offerings include spray-on shoes (you can't get them off) and a monkey thought translator (not really that useful - all simians think about is food).
However, living on a grey island where the staple food is sardines fried, poached, grilled, roasted and raw, he has high hopes for a microwave on steroids which can turn water into grub.
Unfortunately, his first big public demonstration - attended by work experience weather girl Sparks (Faris) - ends in disaster when his contraption destroys the town square and rockets off into the clouds.
It looks like game over...until cheeseburgers begin falling like rain.
The concept of various foodstuffs tumbling from the ether proves to be manna from heaven for the film-makers whose CGI technology vividly captures everything from snowfields of ice cream to meatball boulders demolishing everything in their path.
However, it's the concentration on helpings of rich characterisation that is the cherry on top of a confection thriving on the wittily surreal.
Mr T - yes him - makes a beefy fist of voicing Earl, the overprotective town cop, Faris is fine as the sunny weathergirl while Bruce Campbell gets his teeth into the role of the greedily obese mayor.
By the end even kids suffering ADDs will be overwhelmed as Flint and the gang take on a gloriously surreal buffet of predatory giant chickens and psychopathic jelly babies. Weird but very wonderful.
Feast on it.
