Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computeranimated science fiction comedy film loosely based on the childrens book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett. It was produced by Sony Pictures Animation, and released by Columbia Pictures on September 18, 2009. The film features the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Bobbe J. Thompson, Andy Samberg, Mr. T, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, and Will Forte. It was written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It was a critical and commercial success, earning 243 million worldwide on a budget of 100 million. A sequel, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, was released on September 27, 2013.
Flint then invents a machine that transforms water into food, called the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator FLDSMDFR. Flint turns on the FLDSMDFR in his laboratory, but ends up overloading the houses electrical supply. He then decides to power the machine by hooking it up to a nearby power plant. When he turns the machine back on, it ends up rocketing through town, causing various damage, ultimately shooting up into the sky. While recovering from his failure, Flint meets Samantha Sam Sparks, a weather intern whose big break was foiled by Flints actions. Their conversation is cut short when rainbow colored clouds float over the town and begin to rain cheeseburgers.The town rejoices in their renewed food choices, and Flint creates a communication device to send orders to the machine and order it to create different types of food. Swallow Falls now renamed Chewandswallow suddenly becomes a successful food tourism destination. Everything is going well until the townsfolk start greedily requesting food from Flints machine. Flint notices that the food is beginning to grow larger in size. Although he is concerned that the food is starting to over mutate, the now morbidly obese mayor sees it as profitable for him and the city, and guilts Flint into continuing to make food rain. ........
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