Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a 2013 American animated science fiction comedy adventure film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. The second installment in the franchise, it was directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn (in their feature directorial debuts), and written by Erica Rivinoja, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Will Forte, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt and Neil Patrick Harris return from the first film, with Terry Crews and Kristen Schaal joining the cast. The film's plot focuses on Flint Lockwood and his friends returning to Swallow Falls to save the world after the presumed-destroyed Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator resurfaces, this time creating sentient food creatures.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 was released in the United States on September 27, 2013, by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label and was a box office success, grossing $274 million worldwide against a budget of $78 million. Like the first film, it received generally positive reviews from critics, although it was deemed inferior to its predecessor.