Anna Faris as Sam Sparks: a weather intern from New York City and Flint's love interest.Hader also provides the automated voice of the FLDSMDFR (acronym for Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator), Flint's invention that can convert water into food. Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood: a young, timid, unsuccessful but determined inventor and Sam's love interest.Flint, having survived the explosion, reunites with Sam and Tim, the latter of whom finally shows appreciation for his son's inventions. All seems lost until Flint uses his Spray-On Shoes formula on the machine, causing it to overload and destroy the meatball, ending the storm.
As the group reach the interior, the flash drive is lost, prompting Flint to call Tim and instruct him to email the drive's code to his cell phone via his laboratory's computer.įinding the FLDSMDFR, Flint connects his phone with the flash drive's code sent by Tim to it, only to discover that the wrong file was sent. Upon reaching the FLDSMDFR, they discover it has surrounded itself in a giant meatball-like object made of food for protection. After a spaghetti tornado threatens the town, Flint attempts to shut the FLDSMDFR down, but the control device is mistakenly destroyed by the mayor while he is trying to stop him, causing the machine to become rogue and create a massive storm to destroy the world.įlint creates a USB flash drive designed to shut down the FLDSMDFR and a flying car to reach it, accompanied by Steve, Sam, her cameraman Manny, and the town's former mascot Brent. He attempts to warn the town's mayor that the FLDSMDFR may be malfunctioning, but his warnings are ignored. However, Flint notices the FLDSMDFR's food has begun to gradually become bigger in size. Flint and Sam grow closer after she reveals that she was teased as a child for her glasses and her fascination with meteorology.
Swallow Falls rejoices in their new food choices, is renamed Chewandswallow, and becomes a "food tourism" destination, making Flint a local celebrity.
However, soon after, cheeseburgers begin falling from the sky and Flint realizes the FLDSMDFR is functioning successfully in the stratosphere, using the condensation from clouds to create food-based weather systems. The chaos earns Flint the ire of the town, along with that of Sam Sparks, an amateur field reporter, and the disappointment of Tim. Flint invents the FLDSMDFR (acronym for Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator), a device that converts water into food, in an effort to expand the town's diet, much to the chagrin of Tim, who intends for Flint to one day take over the family-owned fishing shop.įlint's attempt to plug the device in knocks out his house's power, so he connects the FLDSMDFR to a local substation, overloading it and sending it rocketing across town, demolishing a sardine-themed amusement park meant to revitalize the town, and disappearing into the sky. As sardines are considered unsavory by the rest of the world, the island's economy declines, forcing its citizens to subsist on a mainly sardine-based diet.
The film has since been expanded into a franchise, with a sequel, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, released on September 27, 2013, as well as an animated television series based on the film that premiered on Cartoon Network on February 20, 2017, with none of the original cast returning.Īspiring scientist Flint Lockwood lives with his widowed father, Tim, and his pet monkey, Steve, in Swallow Falls, an island in the Atlantic Ocean with an economy based on sardines.
The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its colorful visuals, humor, characterizations, and voice acting, while the simple character designs and plot were said to be unfitting. It earned over $243 million worldwide on a budget of $100 million at the box office. The film premiered in Los Angeles on September 12, 2009, and was released in the United States six days later on September 18 by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label.
After the machine gains sentience and begins to develop food storms, Flint must destroy the machine in order to save the world. The film centers around an aspiring inventor named Flint Lockwood who develops, following a series of failed experiments, a machine that can convert water into food. T, Benjamin Bratt, and Neil Patrick Harris. The film was written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in their directorial debuts, and features the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and loosely based on the 1978 children's book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett.