ON THE MAYOR, as the bowl smashes into the stage and sends him FLYING. People walk past the shop window, laughing and eating the falling food. OCEAN - DAY Sam and Manny are sitting in their van as it travels on a ferry across the ocean. Placing button. STEVE Steve. FLINT Just click send! Sam and Tim turn to see ratbirds gently place a smoking, woozy Flint on the ground. (CAUGHT) Well, the thing is, I can’t... (GETS IDEA) wait to show you this hilarious internet video! Anyone?! FLINT'S LAB - MOMENTS LATER Flint shows Sam a diagram of the machine. FLINT Right, right, right. But behind them, there’s a noise. Tim is behind him, arms crossed. EXT. Flint pulls out his can of SPRAY-ON SHOES... MACHINE VOICE (FOOD WALLA) FLINT When it rains, you put on a coat. RING, RING. SAM About twenty minutes. And designing the ice cream to accumulate into scoops? FLINT Well, why not? EARL (CONT’D) I love you, son. Steve holds up a sardine can, offering. EXT. Brent is eating a pie in the wall. They all stare up at the monitor. The door closes in Brent’s face. He pauses to SIGH, then continues grinding. Sam looks confused. FLINT Sam, that’s not a very good plan. He has a flashcard of people hugging a stick-figure Flint who has a big smile and hearts all around him. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 39. A beat as Flint and Sam look on uncomfortably. RUFUS <*GASP*> REGINA <*GASP*> JOE TOWNE <*GASP*> Earl, in his cop car, turns, rolls down his car window, then: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 26. SAM Mashed potatoes? Flint TASTES THE AIR. STEVE Helping. EXT. RUFUS Avocado! He’s overweight, lazy, and wears a baby blue track suit with “BB” embroidered on it. MAYOR Tomorrow’s the big day, Flint. WNN PRODUCER (V.O.) He raises the jumper cables high, about to attach them... FLINT Food synthesis go! CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 99. MAYOR Alright, here’s the skinny. Do you mind if I take this? Cal is there. ON EARL in the crowd with his WIFE and son CAL. So I threw myself away. Manny is an awesome pilot, outflanking the pizzas with ease. (LAUGHING) It’s so cute... As Sam watches, laughing, Flint -- in QUICK CUTS -- rigs a remote control system using a SATELLITE DISH and a bunch of wires. Beat. CHEWANDSWALLOW - CONTINUOUS A giant WATERMELON smashes into the cannery sending goop and huge seeds flying all over town! (SOFTENS) I can’t let you do this alone. It’s snowing... beautiful, colored snowflakes. EARL Everybody head south! TOWNSPEOPLE Yeah. ELECTRICITY! Please? SAM He’d also like invite everyone in the world to catch a cruise liner and come on down this Saturday for the grand opening of Chewandswallow, a town that is truly a la mode... PARIS: People watch Sam on a TV at the Eiffel Tower. Use bacon for clothes. ELEVATOR TUBE - MOMENTS LATER Tim shoots up the tube, SCREAMING. The wiki about the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise that people can go to and edit! EARL Uh, it’s my son Cal’s birthday tomorrow and I was just wondering if you could make it rain something special. SWALLOW FALLS - DAY CLOUD’S EYE VIEW of Breakfast raining on Swallow Falls. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 32. FLINT Yeah, it’s a big steak. BRENT Hurry up, guys! (BEAT) See ya, suckers! He SIGHS. He walks through the wall and FALLS. FLINT You think so? WNN ANCHOR (LAUGHING THROUGH TEARS) Well, we’ll get right back to that storm, and hopefully Sam will look a little more appealing. I had the best day I have so much to tell you! It’s the most awkward, nerdiest, and somehow still immensely satisfying on-screen kiss ever. Hassle in the Castle (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! FLINT You look great, come on let’s go! TIM Tim’s Tackle Shop. SLAP! REGINA Calvin! FLINT (DRAMATIC TURN) FLDSMDFR. He quickly carves something out of Jell-O and turns to her. Flint (Young): Everyone thinks I'm a weirdo. EARL Hey! BRENT (CONT’D) Now go, you crazy kids, and save the world. Like, like you like you. Flint looks away suspiciously. CROWD / JOE TOWNE Boo! Brent walks on stage from behind a curtain and RIPS OFF his tracksuit, revealing a DIAPER. SAM Pea soup fog! SUPER FAST MONTAGE: He downloads the termination recipe onto a USB flash drive. People lie down in it like sardines as the lid is rolled up over them. INT. SAM (DESPERATE) Come with us. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 21. FLINT Okay, here’s the plan. SAM (V.O.) KIDS’ MOM (O.S.) Her MAKE-UNDER complete, he gazes at the new nerdy Sam. TIM Mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm... FLINT Great. I’m Baby Brent! The Mayor is eating and pacing. Manny steps onto the car. EXT. Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) has always wanted to construct something spectacular; however, his devices have repeatedly failed. Suddenly the box allows him to gush his true feelings. Sam and Manny exchange a look. JOE TOWNE Everyone okay? Now, when she gets here, I want to see a lot of smiling faces... Flint looks up at the huge, scary electrical tower. EXT. PEOPLE (DEMANDING FOOD WALLA) Pizza / bologna / I want/ gimme/ more/ come on! FOOD ASTEROID, SPIKY PIT - MOMENTS LATER Brent is STRUGGLING to hold off the chickens. FLINT (CONT’D) Car upside down... go! I am so sorry. Kids? All you have to do is make it rain food three meals a day, every day, for the forseeable future, and in thirty days, we hold a grand reopening of the island as a must-see cruise destination, and everyone everywhere is going to love your invention. On the crowd, NODDING in agreement. REVEAL Tim, alone, working the chum grinder. He hides the machine behind his back. He PUNCHES and KICKS the other chickens with a vengeance. I was right! WNN PRODUCER Well, those are the only things we look for in a TV weather person. Then, Cal and a bunch of kids call from afar. Outtasighters launch leftovers onto an ever-growing mound behind the dam. FLINT Well, I’m pretty backed up on requests. JOE TOWNE This tastes significantly better than sardines! As she speaks, we cut around the world to see people’s horrified reactions. FLINT (O.S.) This happens for a while. He grabs items as he goes -- a strand of spaghetti, a shrimp -- and ties them tightly together... FLINT Grabbing. Sam and I will enter the meateroid through the intake here, which should lead us straight to the FLDSMDFR. TIM Listen, you, uh... Maybe you wanna go to that unveiling? It is going to be so awesome. SAM No, the machine. FLINT (CONT’D) Coolness enhancement complete! FLINT / SAM And bacon! FLINT (RIGHT BEHIND HER) Bellyflop! FLINT Oh, it was so cool, I almost kissed a girl-- (GREETING PEOPLE) Hey. MAYOR And now, here to cut the ceremonial ribbon, Swallow Falls’ favorite son, Baby Brent! CAR-PLANE - DAY Manny adeptly steers. FLINT Sam. Flint closes the hatch, runs over to the Dangeometer and sees it’s almost into the yellow. Is anyone here a doctor? MACHINE VOICE (FOOD WALLA) INT. TIM Drag it? It’s too complicated for an old fisherman. Behind Flint, three RAT-BIRDS descend, pick up a neighbor kid, and fly away with him, SCREAMING. It gets closer and closer until it overtakes him. Steve, copying Flint, taps the gauge. Yeahhhhhhhh!!! Flint hitting the button. CHYRON: RAT-BIRDS FLINT (CONT’D) Rat-birds. Tim SIGHS. FLINT The machine uses a principal of hydro-genetic mutation. FLINT I just need you to go into my lab, get on a computer and e-mail a file to my cell phone. BRENT It’s Baby Brent. Then Sam approaches. INT. INT. INT. BRENT Who am I?! We follow a DONUT that falls from the sky and into Cal’s mouth. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 91. The kitchen’s closed! What are they made of, some kind of elastic biopolymer adhesive? His arm pokes out of the Jell-O. Tim waits there for Flint, wearing a TIE, clearly uncomfortable. Sam is a little weirded out. Inside, the shop is completely quiet and empty. Fint stops. EARL Cal?! FLINT Wait. / Put your clothes back on! EARL Cal! FLINT Ehhhhhhhh. Tim literally drags the keyboard across the top of the desk. A burger lands in his hand. FLINT (CONT’D) Engage coffee break. CAL <*BARF! And he gets sucked into the pasta twister. FLINT (CONT’D) Why did I do that? His thought translator contraption says: STEVE Steve. Tying. Flint strains to look him in the eye, but his eyeballs wander and twitch. SAM So what’s it called? Get up to 50% off. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 100. Behind them, a FLOCK OF RATBIRDS flies down from the sky. FLINT This is the molecular structure of a hot dog that fell last week. TIM It’s not dragging. SM. BOOM! It’s Swallow Falls degrees... and, uh, let’s just go to the mayor. While Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is of course first and foremost simply a fun romp, both Judi Barret’s narrative and Ron Barrett’s accompanying artwork also manage to convey rather vividly how food can become a rather massive problem when it is uncontrollable or uncontrolled. Flint slips, barely holding onto one of the legs of the machine as he dangles above the huge pit. Flint exits and runs over to the house while still humming the imaginary soundtrack. I’ve calculated the Coriolis acceleration of the storm system. EXT. CHYRON: HAIR UN-BALDER TEEN FLINT Hair unbalder! SAM Hello, Sam Sparks, I’m America. This is grown-up FLINT LOCKWOOD, still in his labcoat, still wearing those spray-on shoes. EARL My chest hairs are tingling. Cutting. SAM You’re a pilot too? ...but the Mayor chokes him with a jumbo JUMBO PRAWN, dragging him away. ON THE MAYOR, who is now really FAT. SAM (POINTS TO DOPPLER MAP) We’ve landed here in some kind of exhaust vent. You would be so proud of me, Dad. That’s impossible. KIDS / CAL Jellybeans! The machine breaks away from the jumper cables and shoots up, disappearing into the sky. BRENT (CONT'D) FLINT Manny, hit the wipers! TIM Son, look around. TITLE CARD: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS. SAM Oh, I’m really not-- He grabs her glasses and starts to put them on her. SFX: DOORBELL. QUICK SHOTS The Mayor munches on a ham hock as he points offscreen. ON THE BOWL, as it continues on its path of destruction through Sardine Circle and people run SCREAMING. Flint (Young): I don't understand fishing metaphors. When it’s listing, if it’s not running... You know, uh-- FLINT Don’t worry, Dad, I get it. (WHEW) Unibrow back down. FLINT What? He follows the sound and finds Flint in a rusty barrel, curled up under some junk. ), Movies directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, https://transcripts.fandom.com/wiki/Cloudy_With_A_Chance_Of_Meatballs?oldid=189890. INSERT SHOTS of sardines, prepared in different unappetizing ways. I know that you're going to do big things someday. Wings pop out of the car. Brent sits behind him, eating sardines out of a tin. It’s Earl. INT. STEVE Danger! CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 85. SAM You were about to kiss me. He feels how beautiful they are. Tim’s uncomfortable. Flint looks up at the machine he lost... FLINT (CONT’D) No... OOF! FLINT (V.O.) NEW YORK CITY, TIMES SQUARE - CONTINUOUS On the JUMBOTRON, Sam continues her report. Flint grabs a huge HOT PEPPER and shoves it in the Mayor’s eye. CAL (STUNNED) Foodalanche. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 34. TIM (CONT’D) Flint? FLINT It’s not ideal, no. Flint looks around sneakily then runs away HUMMING HIS SOUNDTRACK again. The crowd APPLAUDS. Then you know exactly how it felt... (The movie pans down to Flint's School and panning to see a boy named Flint Lockwood raising his hand), (Young Flint walks next to the teacher's desk and introduces his students his new invention). I came here for a better life. Behind him, the Mayor slips away. 12 VIDEOS | 231 IMAGES. Flint hugs his dad. Wait-- he taps it and the needle moves barely back into the green. INT. The machine bursts at the seams. FLINT Dad, just give me one more chance. Then he gets in and flushes. FLINT Oh... uh, you look different. FLINT (MOUTH FULL) Uh... Do you like it? Flint Lockwood is a young and bright scientist who invents a machine that makes it rain food! His profession was changed to a full-time cop only, but they kept the gym teacher's short shorts … SAM Sam Sparks. KZZHHHHSSHHH!! BRENT (TO FLINT) Whatcha doin’? The tube goes under the ground and then pops up inside a Port-APotty. Aaaaarghh! Manny prepares for a broadcast. Tim follows outside, where Steve bangs on stuff. Based loosely on the popular children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, this animated adventure takes the book's story about a town where weather provides fully cooked meals and turns it into a 3-D fantasy about Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader), a young inventor who creates a device that transforms water into food. Your mom, she always knew you were going to be special and if she were alive today, she’d tell us both, “I told you so.” Now, look, when I take this thing off and you hear me make a fishing metaphor, just know that fishing metaphor means... (SPOKEN) I love my son. That’s why I did that...on purpose. You know what? FRENCH VOICE (DUBBED FRENCH) ...a town that is truly... a la mode... EGYPT: People watch Sam in front of the PYRAMIDS. EXT. Turning. SAM I love Jell-O. KIDS Snowball! | Flint turns and sees Earl running. You can’t--! Flint sighs. TIM Send? SAM (CONT’D) Agh. I think the food’s getting bigger-- FLINT I know, it’s great. EARL I love you, too, son! Or, you can turn it off, ruin everything, and no one will ever like you. MAYOR Well, I’m outta here. The island is covered with giant food. He shoves the entire hot dog in his mouth and swallows it. So named because it catapults uneaten food out of sight, and therefore, out of mind. SAM Flint. TOURISTS Aaaaaaaaaahhhh! I’ll hold down the fort here. MACHINE VOICE Bacon. Something hits them. Flint, then Sam (still clutching the Doppler) LEAP out into the huge, meaty hole. On Flint, surveying the scene, as Sam continues behind him. FLINT Oh, I just made it rain Jell-0 in the middle of the night, then I gathered it all up with the Outtasighter before everyone woke up and then I brought it here and pressed it into a gigantic customcarved plastic tupperware mold I made. Oh, just send the intern. FLINT (POLITE) Brent! CROWDSPERSON #1 Looks safe to me! (PRESSING BUTTON) Boop! FLINT (CONT’D) Okay. Weather news network. Four eyes! SAM So, you’re sure this is safe? Tim stands at the counter, alone. FLINT Okay, Dad. TOURISTS enjoy the manmade beauty of Mt. SAM (V.O.) From as far as China to West Virginia. Allow your kids to eat all the junk food they want in our completely unsupervised Kidz Zone! ...and he makes a break for him. Look at this. Steve leaps out onto the wing, DEVOURING the gummi bears and RIPPING APART their cute Gummi bodies. MAYOR A Vegas-style all-you-can-eat buffet? Earl and Regina love Cal so much they don’t want to put any restrictions on him, especially when it comes to how much of Flint Lockwood’s delicious food-weather Cal should eat. (Young Flint hugs Fran after he puts his white coat on), (Young Flint draws his picture of himself as an inventor and hangs it up in his room), (Young Flint goes outside to his lab on top). 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. I should be going too, it’s getting late. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 63. He BITES the licorice rope, falling into the blackness. This piano, those sconces, that ghetto blaster, that Jell-O, that aquarium, that Venus de Milo with your face on it next to a Michelangelo’s David that also has your face. FLINT The ratbirds, yes, they escaped and bred at a surprising rate, but I took care of that problem and disposed of them. Fran: So? CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 69. FLINT Yeah? TIM Flint? Why? Sam notices none of this. SARDINE CIRCLE - DAY Flint looks back as the machine rockets him away from Sam. Lockwood! Thank goodness you only caused minimal damage to SardineLand. At the GREAT WALL OF CHINA, a giant fortune cookie lands and breaks open. It snatches the cheese and flies away. FLINT Okay. Shamo does not look excited about the ring of fire. He is a tall, and very muscular black man who is incredibly athletic and well built, although he has rather short legs when compared to the rest of his body. FLINT (SMITTEN) Yeah, exactly... SAM (SUDDENLY NERVOUS) I mean... (GIGGLES) Wow, they’re shiny. SAM Oh. TIM (O.S.) JOE TOWNE A toast! I love you, son. / Let’s rock his car back and forth! INT. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 22. Are you okay? SWALLOW FALLS - DAY In JUMP CUTS, to camera: KID #1 Mr. Lockwood, may I please have waffles? SON I love spending time with you, dad. FLINT Steve! FLINT Hmm. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 Earl Devereaux Cop Plush. Flint tries to take back what he said. Woo! FLINT (DEFEATED) Ay papi. (MORE) but it was all just an illusion. Flint looks at his phone and sees “Email Received. Along with all these dumb inventions. Sam, excited, drops her tray of coffees on the ground. Behind them, unnoticed, the WALKING TV runs by. TIM’S BACKYARD - NIGHT Earl stands outside the PORT-A-POTTY, hat in hand. WEATHERMAP - DAY Sam stands in front of a map with food-weather symbols. MAYOR (O.S.) REVEAL Flint and Steve tiptoeing towards the power station, carrying his machine. Then Flint runs off. I am severely allergic to peanuts. MAYOR This is gonna be big! MAYOR (CONT’D) With rides! Cal is the adorable young son of Swallow Falls’s town cop Earl and his wife, Regina. Dialing! (SOUND EFFECTS) Flint opens the FUSE BOX. FLINT (CONT’D) Ladies first? ...but the roast chickens drop down and surround them! ON STEVE, who rips out the heart of the last Gummi Bear and eats it. ON FLINT AND SAM, KISSING. Tim approaches Flint from the back room as the Old-Timers leave. From which we’re protected by a presumably indestructible dam! FLINT (V.O.) FLINT I know, but-- TIM Cheeseburgers from the sky, that’s not natural. FLINT Yes. Ha! (SNORTS UP PHLEGM) FLINT Brent, you need to take Sam back to the plane to get her an allergy shot! BRENT Uh-oh! EXT. His eyes open wide in shocked glee. Flint looks over to the button, unsure. cloudy with a chance of meatballs 109 GIFs. FLINT Whew! OOF! Beat. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 79. TIM Window? TIM Okay, then, skipper, what do you need? FLINT (WHISPERING) Pushing. FLINT Sentient food? FLINT (CONT’D) And now, the reveal. STEVE Steve! ROOFLESS RESTAURANT - NIGHT OMINOUS LOOKING CLOUDS. Tim answers his old land-line phone. NEW YORK - DAY Sam drives the weathervan, with her silent but adept cameraman MANNY in the passenger seat. FLINT I’ve got an idea. Flint’s Cell phone pops out of one of them. FLINT (CONT’D) What...? EXT./INT. BRENT (NEAR TEARS) WHAAAT?!?! SAM Sorry, I am not myself today. FLINT (FREAKED OUT SOUND) STEVE Whoa. Flint gets out and gets on the hood. EGYPTIAN VOICE (DUBBED ARABIC) ...a town that is truly... a la mode... LONDON: Crowds watch Sam in front of BIG BEN. TIM Eh, no thanks. He flies out of the twister and LOSES HIS LAB COAT... FLINT No! BRENT (CONT’D) Uh-oh! signs. MACHINE VOICE Corn. FLINT (CONT’D) Steve, my best friend and trusted colleague! I spent my entire life building up to that moment. I’m in the middle of a yaaaaah! EARL What? FLINT (DETERMINED) I can still stop the order with the kill code! EXT. FLINT I dunno, but that’ll never happen. EXT. Long beat. Flint: (Narrating) Have you ever felt like you were a little bit different? Flint hits his head against the glass in despair. It’s RAINING CHEESEBURGERS!!!! SAM It should be right down this... hole. The crowd CLAPS. I know you won’t let us down. EARL (TO CROWD) Let’s go build some boats! All except -- Tim, who stands inside the doorway of his shop and just stares at the sky in disbelief. Flint turns the Doppler map and points. FLINT How did you get in here? Flint is still a bad pilot. Oh, wow. I’m thinking pasta. BRENT I know, kid. The crowd points and GASPS. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 36. We see a red spinning glow on her face as she GASPS. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 29. EXT. CAR-PLANE - CONTINUOUS Flint is on his phone mid-pizza dogfight. ...then reaches Joe Towne, sitting in his car as it floats through the eye of the storm. FLINT Hey, Brian. TIM Alright. FLINT’S LAB / MEATEROID - INTERCUT FLINT (TERRIFIED) Dad, I’m surrounded by man-eating chickens right now. FLINT I’ll bet you look great with glasses on. FLINT (REALIZING) Oh.