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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 computer-animated film, produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures, was released on September 18, 2009, and is loosely based on the children's book of the same name by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett.

The film features the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Bobb'e 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 Chris Miller, who both are best known for the animated TV series Clone High.

The film is presented in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and is shown in 3D in select theaters using RealD Cinema, Dolby 3D and IMAX 3D systems.

The Baby Brent Sardine cannery has closed for good, and the town of Swallow Falls, located on a small island located under the “A” in Atlantic Ocean on the world map, is left with the remaining sardines as the only food source, weakening the economy. Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) has always wanted to invent something awesome, though everything he invented - including Spray-On Shoes, the Remote Control Television, Hair-unbalder, Flying Car, and Ratbirds - has ended in nothing but disaster. To help solve the food problem, Flint invents a machine that converts water molecules to create food. It doesn’t work due to the lack of electricity at his home, so when he is forced by his unsupportive and technophobic father Tim Lockwood (James Caan) to work at his Bait N’ Tackle shop, Flint sneaks out while his father is at the unveiling of Sardine Land, a new tourist attraction. Flint, along with his pet monkey Steve (Neil Patrick Harris), uses the power station's electricity to work the machine. Unfortunately, the machine has absorbed so much power that it takes off like a rocket, destroys Sardine Land, and travels up into the stratosphere. Flint escapes an angry mob, and hides under the docks sulking at his failure. Then he meets Sam Sparks (Anna Faris), a cute weather intern whose big break was ruined by Flint’s “rocket”. When the two witness giant purple clouds raining cheeseburgers over Swallow Falls, Sam reports the events and mentions Flint is responsible. Everyone begs Flint to make it rain more. After Flint explains the work of the FLDSMDFR (Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator) and builds a communication device, he starts taking requests from citizens. Sam allows free advertising, and Mayor Shelbourne (Bruce Campbell), the greedy mayor, gets the money to rebuild society in Swallow Falls, even allowing the name to be changed to Chewandswallow. Meanwhile, Flint gets a request from Officer Earl (Mr. T) to rain an ice cream snowday for his son Cal’s (Bobb'e J. Thompson) birthday, though this makes the machine's mutation odometer reach the yellow range.

After a date with Sam in a massive Jell-O mold, Flint shares with his father that he has been invited by the Mayor to cut the ribbon for the next day's grand re-opening of Chewandswallow. Tim mentions that the food might not be good for people, and suggests that Flint turn it off. Flint angrily refuses and storms off. While alone, Flint notices that foods are raining in bigger quantities. The mayor (now morbidly obese) shows up explaining that bigger food is a better thing, and if he decides to turn off the machine, no one will ever like him. Flint, at the Mayor’s request for pasta for the grand re-opening, sends the order to the FLDSMDFR. The next day when tourists around the world arrive at Chewandswallow, a tornado of spaghetti and meatballs shows up. Flint at that moment returns to his lab to turn off the machine, but he catches the Mayor ordering a Vegas-style “All You Can Eat” buffet. Flint tries to send a kill code to the machine, but the Mayor accidentally destroys the communication device before the kill code can be sent. Now that a fatal food storm is on its way around the world, Flint uploads the kill code to a USB Drive, re-invents the Flying Car, and, along with Steve, Sam, “Baby” Brent (Andy Samberg), and Sam’s cameraman Manny (Benjamin Bratt), flies up into the stratosphere to destroy the machine, while the citizens and remaining tourists build sandwich boats to escape into the ocean.

Flint and the others fly into the stratosphere to find that the FLDSMDFR is shelled in a giant meatball where water clouds enter from the top and a food hurricane exits from the bottom. After an attack from mutant foods with artificial intelligence trying to protect the FLDSMDFR, Flint loses the USB Drive through the window. Flint, Sam, and Brent enter from the side of the meatball and make their way towards the FLDSMDFR while Manny and Steve remain in the Flying Car. Flint calls his father and tells him to enter his lab and send the kill code from his computer to his cell phone. As Tim works on sending Flint the kill code, Mt. Leftovers collapses and everybody escapes on the sandwich boats - even the Mayor, who has had a head start. Just as Tim is about to send Flint the code, the avalanche from Mt. Leftovers covers the lab, presumably crushing Tim. Meanwhile Flint, Sam, and Brent are surrounded by man-eating roasted chickens. Brent is eaten whole, but he brings the chicken body to life from the inside of it, using it to fight off the other chickens. Just then Tim crawls out of the large food, safe and sound, and sends the kill code. Flint is left to go on towards the FLDSMDFR since Sam, who is allergic to peanuts, is suffering from an allergic reaction to peanut brittle. Flint jams his phone into the FLDSMDFR’s serial port and sends the kill code in; however, it appears that Tim sent a file that contains a video of kittens singing 'Fight the Power'. As the FLDSMDFR fights back physically, Flint triumphs by using his Spray-On Shoes formula to block the food extraction hole. The meatball explodes just after Sam and Brent escape into the Flying Car. The purple clouds from around the world disappear, and Sam, Brent, Steve, and Manny return to Chewandswallow, which is now covered in food, and they, along with all the citizens and tourists, mourn Flint and his efforts to save the world. Just then Flint returns unharmed, carried by his ratbird creations. Tim, finally admitting that he is proud of his son, explains his thoughts through Steve’s thought translator, and Sam and Flint share their first kiss. During the credits sequence, Chewandswallow is renamed Chewandswallow 2, Flint and Tim open a business that uses the Spray-On Shoes formula to fix rooftops, and the Mayor is arrested by Earl and Cal.