"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" *** (out of four): Delightfully witty, feature-length adaptation of the popular children's book doesn't have the emotional heft to take its place among the great animated classics, but when it rains it soars.

Watching a movie in 3D requires a certain fondness for wearing an ill-fitting pair of your grandfather's smudged sunglasses for 90 minutes. It's a commitment; if you're going to do it, the movie better at least be worth it. While much of the recent 2D animated fare in theaters has been some of the best stuff out there (particularly if it bears the name Pixar), cinematic forays into the third-dimension tend to be gimmicky ("Beowulf", "Journey to the Center of the Earth"). Of course, this has been the case since the dawn of those cardboard red and blue glasses half a century ago. And though the glasses are still required, the technology has vastly improved in recent years. The latest entry is "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs", a delightfully witty, feature-length adaptation of the children's book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett.

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At this point we should offer an apology. Having done 20 episodes of 3 Chords means we've wasted a lot of your time. Instead of building houses for poor people, reading your children a story, or shaving your back, you chose to spend 20 episodes with us. I'd like to say that we saved a special and enlightening episode for number 20, but we didn't. We didn't even come close.

From a super-secret underground bunker, Johnny and Adam discuss their run in with a woman in distress and how their actions defined who they were as people. They also roll around on chairs.

Proving once again that there is nothing new under the sun, the creator of Ghost Busters 1954 puts together movies young Lucas and Spielberg grew up with to bring us Raiders of the Lost Ark, a 1951 film starring Charlton Heston.

Continue reading for the 1949 version of Forrest Gump.