Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer animated science fiction comedy produced by Sony Pictures Animation and loosely based on a 1978 children's book of the same name by Gambling and Ron Barrett. It was written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in their directing debut, and starred in 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.
The film premiered in Los Angeles on September 12, 2009, and was released in the United States on September 18, 2009. The film received critical acclaim and earned more than $ 243 million worldwide with a $ 100 million budget. A sequel titled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 was released on September 27, 2013, and an animated television series based on the inaugural film on Cartoon Network on February 20, 2017.
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Plot
Flint Lockwood is a wannabe scientist living in Swallow Falls, a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has sardines as its economic base. Flint lives with Tim, his widowed tekophobe dad, and his pet monkey, Steve. Despite Flint's excited enthusiasm, his inventions, including spray boots, remotely controlled televisions, mouse birds, hair-not-balder, and flying cars, all ended in failure.
Flint then created a machine that turns water into food, called "Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator" (FLDSMDFR). Flint lit FLDSMDFR in his laboratory, but ultimately weighed on the home electricity supply. He then decided to start the engine by connecting it to the nearest power plant. When he turned the engine back on, it finally skyrocketed through the city, destroying Sardine Land (the park the mayor considers to boost tourism) before finally shooting at the sky. Recovering from his failure, Flint meets Samantha "Sam" Sparks, a weather intern who breaks big breakthrough thanks to his actions. Their conversation broke off as rainbow-colored clouds hovered over the city and started pouring on cheeseburgers.
The city is delighted with their updated food choices, and Flint creates communication devices to deliver orders to machines and order them to create different kinds of food. Swallow Falls (now renamed Chewandswallow) suddenly became a successful destination of "food tourism". Everything went smoothly until the townspeople began greedily asking for food from the Flint machine. Flint saw that the food began to grow larger in size. Although he was concerned that the food was beginning to "more mutate", the now unhealthy mayor thought it was auspicious for him and the town, and the Flint guints kept making food rains.
Locals and worldly tourists in Chewandswallow are happy until suddenly a huge tornado formed from spaghetti and meatballs threatens the city. Flint rushes to the lab to turn off FLDSMDFR and tries to send a "kill code" to stop the machine, but the mayor, while trying to stop him by throwing a giant turnip at him, accidentally destroys the communication device. With Flint unable to control the engine, a huge food storm is created that threatens the world. When Flint's father encouraged him to fix the mess, Flint gained confidence, put the killing code in a USB flash drive, and built a new flying car to reach and disable FLDSMDFR, with the help of Sam, his cameraman Manny, Steve and Brent (the name of Baby Brent Sardine ).
As they approached the machine in the sky, they found that it was now the core of a giant meatball, where the clouds go up and the food storms come out of the base. Machines deliver live food to attack them. In chaos, a flash drive with a kill code is sucked by the wind out the window.
Back at Chewandswallow, residents and tourists fled while the last meal fell. Mt. The remains of food collapsed, causing an avalanche of food that devastated the city. Although avalanche hit Flint's Lab, Tim successfully reset the kill code to the Flint phone from there. Flint then goes into the meatball, finds the machine, and connects the phone to the port. To his dismay, Flint discovers that Tim sent him the wrong file, so he can not stop FLDSMDFR. Flint then got the idea and used his Spray-On Shoes formula on the machine, causing it to explode. With the engine destroyed, the food storm subsided and everyone can return safely to Chewandswallow. The team finally showed his appreciation for his son and his invention before Flint and Sam celebrated with a kiss. Meanwhile, the fat mayor is seen stranded in the middle of the sea, after eating almost all the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, while mumbling that his plan is not well thought out.
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Cast
- Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood, an inventor.
- Hader also makes a sound from the "FLDSMDFR" machine.
- Max Neuwirth as Young Flint Lockwood
- Anna Faris as Samantha "Sam" Sparks, a weather internship from New York City.
- James Caan as Tim Lockwood, Flint's diligent father, widow.
- Neil Patrick Harris as Steve the Monkey, Flete pet vervet monkey who communicates with mind translators Speak and Spell monkey.
- Bruce Campbell as Mayor of Shelbourne, the turbulent and self-centered mayor of Swallow Falls.
- Andy Samberg as Brent McHale, the famous celebrity mascot of Baby Brent's Sardines.
- Sir. T as Officer Earl Devereaux, city athletic police.
- Bobb'e J. Thompson as Calvin "Cal" Devereaux, son of Earl.
- Benjamin Bratt as Manny, a Guatemalan cameraman in Guatemala and a former doctor, co-pilot, and comedian.
- Al Roker as Patrick Patrickson, weather station announcer.
- Lauren Graham as Fran Lockwood, Flint's mother who died ten years before Flint discovered FLDSMDFR.
- Will Forte as Joe Towne, a Redneck resident of Chewandswallow.
- Angela Shelton as Regina Devereaux, Earl's wife
Production
On May 9, 2003, a year after its founding, Sony Pictures Animation announced its first animated slate, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a film adaptation of the book. The Brizzi brothers were brought in to direct the film, with Wayne Rice adapting the scenario. In 2006, it was reported that the film was led by new directors and writers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. On September 18, 2008, Variety announced that Bill Hader and Anna Faris had signed to voice the two main characters, with James Caan, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobb J. Thompson, Benjamin Bratt, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, and Will Forte are also in the voice. Co-writers and co-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller said later that year it would be a tribute, and parody, disaster films like Twister , Armageddon , > The Core , and The Day After Tomorrow . Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is the second movie (after Monster House ) created using Arnold's animated rendering software.
Music
Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs is a soundtrack for a movie of the same name, released under Sony Pictures Entertainment on September 15, 2009. The music of the movie and album are both credited for compilation and produced by American composer Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. Track list
All music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh, unless specified.
Release
Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs aired on September 12, 2009, at Mann Village Theater in Los Angeles, California. The film was widely released on September 18, 2009, along with a digital re-release to 3D IMAX cinema.
Home media
The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and PSP UMD on January 5, 2010 in the United States and Canada. Blu-ray 3D was released on June 22, 2010. This is the first 3D Blu-ray sold individually in the United States.
Art book
In August 2009, Insight Editions published a companion book for the film titled The Art and Making of Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs .
Reception
Critical response
Aggregator reviews Rotten Tomatoes reports that 87% of critics gave positive reviews based on 139 reviews with an average rating of 7.3/10. The consensus statement reads, "Unique humor, brave characters, and solid slapstick make this family comedy a moment excited at the cinema. " Another aggregator review, Metacritic, who normalizes the ratings of major critics, gave the film 66 approval ratings based on 24 reviews. Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average rating of "A-" on a scale of A to F.
Ernest Hardy of LA Weekly stated that the film is "intelligent, insightful to a number of relationship dynamics, and filled with quick action". Hardy also applauded the incredible 3-D effect, full of smart intelligent jokes played both in the center of the screen and on the edges. " Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave this film a different review stating that "Crazy is not always the same funny, and gigantism from the second half of this 3-D offer gives you a damper of fun, but look at" The Movie not made for you, or me. It's made for dangerous and easily distracted 9-year-olds. "Kyle Smith of the New York Post gave two movie stars stating that the animated film" is very widespread in children's books based on the beak first the smart and interesting. But the second half left after being drunk. "Animator John Kricfalusi, known for his generally negative opinion about modern animation, did a review of the film on his blog, saying that" It is an optimistic sign of what can be. This is basically an unfocused movie -but one that allows many artists not to take a scene and add some kind of intelligence, design and action to the formula events told by the story. "
box office
Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs earned a total of $ 243 million with a reported budget of $ 100 million. Of gross, 51%, or $ 124,870,275, came from the domestic market, while the rest, $ 118,135,851, from other regions. For film marketing, Sony spends $ 43.3 million in the United States, and $ 26 million in other countries. The film earned $ 8,137,358 on its opening Friday, and ranked # 1 at the box office for a total of $ 30.3 million for the first weekend. On her second weekend, it stays at # 1 with a 17% drop. It currently holds the record for opening the third biggest weekend in September.
Accolades
Expanded Franchise
Sequel
A sequel, titled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 , was released on September 27, 2013. Directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn, and this is based on an original idea, where Flint and his friends must again save the world of food machinery, this time it produces a living creature of food. Most of the main casters repeat their role, with Terry Crews replacing Mr. T. New players also include Kristen Schaal as the Barb orangutans, and Will Forte in his new role at Chester V.
Television series
On October 9, 2014, DHX Media announced that it will develop and produce a television series based on the franchise film, titled Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series . The series will be made traditionally and will consist of 23 episodes 22 minutes. It will take place before the first film, showing Flint Lockwood as a high school student who dreams of becoming a serious scientist. In his adventure, he will join Sam Sparks, a new girl in town and a school "wannabe" reporter, along with Flint Tim's father, Steve the Monkey, Manny as head of the school's audiovisual club, Earl as a teacher school gym, Brent as a baby clothing model , and the mayor of Shelbourne. DHX Media will handle global television and non-US home entertainment distribution, along with merchandising rights worldwide, while Sony will distribute home entertainment in the US. Assigned by Teletoon in Canada, this series will be broadcast on Cartoon Network in the United States, and on the Boomerang channel in other regions.
See also
- Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs (video game), based on movie.
- Real life disaster disaster
- Boston Molasses Disaster
- Honolulu sugar cane
- Beer Flood London
References
External links
- Official website
- Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs on IMDb
- Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs at AllMovie
- Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs at Rotten Tomatoes
- Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs in Metacritic
- Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs in Box Office Mojo
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