Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Following the food storm incident in Swallow Falls, Chester V, the CEO of Live Corp and Flint Lockwood's childhood idol, offers his company's services to help clean up the island, while temporarily relocating its populace to San Franjose, California. Chester hires Flint to work at Live Corp as he strives to receive a promotion. Six months later, Flint is publicly humiliated when his "Celebrationator" invention is accidentally set off by Steve after the promotion was being given to another employee. Chester later informs Flint that the FLDSMDFR survived its presumed destruction and now produces sentient food creatures known as "foodimals", many of which attacked his employees stationed on Swallow Falls. Chester tells Flint that he needs to personally travel to the once inhabited island, find the FLDSMDFR and insert a "BS-USB" to shut it down. Flint takes along his pet monkey Steve, his meteorologist girlfriend Sam Sparks, her camera operator Manny, police officer Earl Devereaux, and former Swallow Falls mascot "Chicken" Brent. Flint additionally reluctantly accepts the help of his widowed father Tim, who takes them to the island using his fishing boat. When Chester learns that Flint is not alone, he and his much-abused orangutan assistant Barb gather some of their employees and follow. While Tim stays on the boat and befriends some living pickles, Flint and his friends work their way through the jungle-like environment of food that now completely covers the island. They encounter many foodimal species, including an innocent living strawberry whom Sam calls "Barry". A Cheespider that previously attacked Chester's employees, chases the group before Chester arrives, scaring it off and joining the mission. Sam becomes suspicious of Chester's motives as his claims about the foodimals being dangerous do not align with her observations. Flint is too afraid of failure to listen, eventually leading Sam and the others to go off on their own. They re-encounter and befriend the Cheespider, discovering that it was only acting hostile towards people wearing Live Corp gear. When the group deduces that the foodimals have realized something sinister about the company, as the "Live" part of its name is simply "evil" spelled backwards, they attempt to warn Flint but are captured by Chester's employees. Flint, Chester and Barb track down the FLDSMDFR. Flint watches it create sentient marshmallows, who immediately befriend him, and realizes that Sam was right. He defies Chester and refuses to shut down the FLDSMDFR. Chester fights Flint and plugs the BS-USB, now revealed to be a reprogramming device, into the machine himself. With the FLDSMDFR now under his control, Chester pushes Flint into a river and starts capturing more foodimals, planning to use them as ingredients for Live Corp's upcoming line of food bars. The marshmallows rescue Flint and reunite him with Tim and Barry. The Lockwoods realize that, without the FLDSMDFR, the entire island's ecosystem will die out. Flint feels responsible and becomes demoralized, until he discovers that the foodimals, having watched archived footage of the FLDSMDFR's creation, revere him as their creator. Inspired, Flint vows to set things right. Aided by Tim and the foodimals, Flint and Barry infiltrate the new Live Corp factory under construction on the island; there, they release the captive foodimals, who battle Chester's employees. Flint confronts Chester, who he threatens to make his captive friends into food bars too; Barb is reluctant to participate in this, so Chester dismisses her. Flint sets off his Celebrationator to defeat Chester and free his friends; he attempts to flee with the machine, but is cornered by Flint's group and the foodimals. Having changed sides from becoming fed up with Chester's abuse, Barb steals back the machine, while Chester is eaten by the Cheespider. The next day, Flint returns the FLDSMDFR to its home base, frees it from Chester's control and reconciles with his friends, allowing Barb to join the group. The FLDSMDFR continues creating foodimals, which coexist peacefully with the islanders.

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