Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. Loosely based on the 1978 children's book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett, the film was written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (in their feature directorial debuts), and stars the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Benjamin Bratt, and Neil Patrick Harris. 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. After the machine gains sentience and begins to develop food storms, Flint must stop it in order to save the world.
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| Running time | 90 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Budget | $100 million
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| Box office | $243 million
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Steve: Gummi Bears!
Flint Lockwood: Whoa, Steve, no. We both know how you get around Gummi Bears.
Sam Sparks: How about, eggs?
Flint Lockwood: And toast?
Sam Sparks: Orange toast?
Flint Lockwood, Sam Sparks: And bacon!
- Sam Sparks is also the name of one of the interns that worked on Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's TV Series, Clone High.
- When Flint is in his lab "visualizing" with the 3-D holographic images, he's wearing glasses with red and blue lenses. The glasses are a nod to the original 3-D movies from the 1950s to the late 1990s which required glasses with red and blue lenses in order to make the 3-D effect. Nowadays, movies such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) use a different form of 3-D technology that uses "polarized" rather than colored lenses.
- When Flint is explaining how the machine can turn water into any kind of food, Sam asks if Jell-O is possible. Flint says yes, and then asks if she likes peanut butter. Sam says she is extremely allergic to peanuts, which prompts Flint to say, "Oh yeah, me too!" In real life, Bill Hader is highly allergic to peanuts.
- In one scene, a rainbow of little colored bite-sized candies ends in children's mouths. This is a reference to Skittles, a fruity bite-sized candy whose slogan is "Taste The Rainbow".
- Neil Patrick Harris was originally offered the role of Flint, but he felt that the role of Steve was much more interesting.
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