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Det regner kjøttboller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)

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En kjempemorsom komedie om et ungt geni som må redde verden da hans matoppfinnelse klikker og fører til at kjøttboller på størrelse med Cadillac’er og mais store som Eiffeltårnet faller mot jorden.

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Release poster featuring Flint, Sam, and Steve.
Directed by	Phil Lord Christopher Miller
Produced by	Pam Marsden
Written by	Screenplay: Phil Lord Christopher Miller Book: Judi Barrett Ron Barrett
Starring	Bill Hader Anna Faris Neil Patrick Harris James Caan Bruce Campbell Andy Samberg Mr. T Bobb’e J. Thompson Benjamin Bratt Al Roker Lauren Graham Will Forte
Music by	Mark Mothersbaugh “Raining Sunshine” performed by Miranda Cosgrove
Studio	Sony Pictures Animation
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18)
Running time	81 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100 million
Gross revenue	$179,705,097[2]

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a 2009 computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures, was released on September 18, 2009, and is relatively based on the children’s book of the same name by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett.

The film features 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. It was written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who both are best known for the animated TV series Clone High.

The film is presented in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and is shown in 3D in select theaters using RealD Cinema and IMAX 3D systems.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 1.1 Main Titles Sequence 2 Logo 3 Cast 4 Production 5 Marketing and release 5.1 Blu Ray and DVD Release 6 Reception 6.1 Critical Reaction 6.2 Box Office 7 Songs 8 Video Game 9 Art Book 10 References 11 External links

Plot

Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) has always wanted to invent something awesome. His first invention was “Spray-on Shoes”, which eventually led to his feet being imprisoned for life, and added to people already making fun of him when he was younger. As he grew, all of his experiments seem to have a downside as well, such as “The Flying Car”, “Hair-On-Bald-er”, a television with legs, and “ratbirds.” At times, Flint believed that he was a failure, but his mother Fran Lockwood (Lauren Graham) always encouraged him to succeed. However, when she passes away, Flint is left with his non-supportive father, Tim Lockwood (James Caan). Flint lives in a small island town called Swallow Falls, which is famous for sardines, and located under the “A” in “Atlantic Ocean” on the atlas. The problem started for Swallow Falls when the world figured out that sardines are “super gross”, which sent the town into a state of economic depression, and leaving sardines as the only food available on the island. The citizens, including the local superhuman policeman Earl (Mr. T), Cal (Bobb’e J. Thompson), who is Earl’s son, the town’s sardine mascot, ‘Baby’ Brent (Andy Samberg) are often aggravated with Flint and his annoying inventions.

However, Flint finally comes up with an invention that can actually help the townspeople in a positive way. The creation converts water into food and is named “The Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator” (FLDSMDFR for short), but he doesn’t have enough electricity to power the process. When his father discovers Flint’s newest failure, he suggests Flint should quit working at being an inventor and come work with him at the family-owned fishing shop. Shrugging off his father’s offer, during the next day after Flint finishes an unpleasant shift, he and his pet monkey, Steve (Neil Patrick Harris), which communicates through the assistance of a thought translator/speaker, decide to charge up the machine using the town’s power station. Meanwhile, Mayor Shelbourne (Bruce Campbell) is unveiling Sardine Land, which is a theme park he built using the town’s entire budget, in hopes it will make him widely recognized and bring publicity to the small town. Sam Sparks (Anna Faris), a weather intern from New York City, along with her cameraman Manny (Benjamin Bratt), is given her big break in reporting about the grand opening of Sardine Land. Nonetheless, when Flint powers up the invention, it goes haywire and zooms through the theme park and up into the air, destroying Sardine Land.

Humiliated, Flint flees to the docks, where he inadvertently meets Sam and the sky starts to rain cheeseburgers from the giant purple clouds that are cast over the island. Flint realizes that the FLDSMDFR is suspended in the middle of the clouds and has finally worked. He then takes Sam to his lab to show her the process, and keeps her occupied with a video of a kitten and ducklings singing “Fight the Power,” as he builds a communication device that allows him to send food orders to the FLDSMDFR. People begin to praise Flint’s invention and start to make specialized requests of the food they want to rain down, such as the ice cream for Cal’s birthday, and a giant Jell-O mold for Sam before Flint goes out on a date with her (which he has a horrible and comedic time trying to ask her out on). He also builds the Out-Of-Sighter, a device that launches the leftovers out of town into a huge pile, called “Mount Leftovers”, which is held in place by a “nearly indestructible” dam. The town is then renamed Chewandswallow and the mayor plans a grand re-opening of the town, hoping the food weather will attract plenty of tourists, and make him more recognizable than ever before.

While on a date with Sam, Flint discovers that she was once a “nerd” as well. She was a “nerd” for the weather, and wore her hair in a ponytail and a large pair of glasses. She changed her look later in life to get away from the mocking and criticism, but Flint reveals that he likes her for the way she used to be. Sam then agrees to go out in public with her original look after he gets her to put her glasses on and tie her hair back. Right before leaving, Flint nervously (and awkwardly) tries to kiss Sam but gets interrupted by a phone call. The call is from Mayor Shelbourne, asking Flint to cut the ribbon at the town’s grand re-opening. Afterwards, Flint runs into problems with his father, who can’t admit that he is proud of his son, and Flint storms off angry and disappointed. He then comes across giant hot dogs, realizing that the food is starting to become unusually large. Noting that the food molecules are mutating, and that the FLDSMDFR is becoming unstable, Flint goes to turn it off, but the Mayor (who is now morbidly obese from all the food he ate) deceives him and says he shouldn’t and no one would like him anymore if he did. Flint, realizing this is the only time people weren’t scolding him for a mishap, orders spaghetti for the next day’s menu for the tourist’s arrival to town at the grand re-opening. This causes the FLDSMDFR, which is now covered in a meat-like growth, to become sentient.

The next day at the town’s grand re-opening, the previously ordered spaghetti forms a twister, which proves the idea of food mutation. Flint goes to turn off the FLDSMDFR, but the Mayor is seen ordering a Vegas-style buffet, and accidentally destroys the communication device. Sam, using her weather computer tries to warn the world through the news that an apocalyptic food storm will strike, but they disconnect her off the air at first for her “nerdy” appearance. Luckily, she gets re-aired and warns everyone about the events that could destroy the world. Flint gives up believing that he truly is a failure, through a talk with his father, who now encourages him to save the town. Flint puts a kill code in a USB Drive then builds “The Flying Car 2 with Wings” and Steve, Sam, Manny, and ‘Baby’ Brent (Brent going along trying to find a new “self image” since his old one was destroyed after Flint became famous) give chase to the FLDSMDFR, while the citizens and tourists build sandwich boats to escape to the sea.

The FLDSMDFR has formed a giant meatball around itself, and Flint, Sam, and Brent enter the meatball while Manny and Steve stay behind in the flying car. Flint loses the USB Drive on the way and calls his father to send the kill code to his cellular phone. Tim hesitantly enters Flint’s lab, and has trouble using Flint’s computer. While trying to send him the kill code, Mount Leftovers collapses and covers the town with massive amounts of food, and it seems that Tim had been crushed, but he successfully pulls himself out of the wreckage and sends the kill code to Flint. Flint, Brent, and Sam then uncover sentient food, which has undergone high mutations of physicality and developed artificial intelligence so it is able to protect the FLDSMDFR; nevertheless, they fight their way through giant man-eating baked chickens. Brent is seemingly eaten by one, but is able to control the chicken from the inside and fight the rest off as his new self, ‘Chicken’ Brent. Flint and Sam then head off alone, but she must leave him after she has an allergic reaction to a long tunnel lined with peanut brittle barbs. Now alone, Flint encounters the FLDSMDFR while Sam and Brent escape with Manny and Steve. Flint jams the phone into the machine to release the code, however it appears that his father sent the wrong document and the the video of the kitten and ducklings singing “Fight the Power” opens. The FLDSMDFR fights back physically, but Flint clogs the food extraction hole with his Spray-on Shoes spray, which causes the FLDSMDFR and the outer-lining meatball to explode, ending the catastrophic food weather. Down below in the town, which is covered by giant food, Sam, Steve, and Brent arrive unharmed. Seeing Flint is not with them, Tim and the other citizens mourn for Flint, whom they believe is dead, but Flint returns unharmed and saved by the ratbirds he originally created. His father finally admits that he is proud and loves his son, just before Flint receives the kiss from Sam he has always been waiting on. Meanwhile, Mayor Shelbourne is shown to have sunk in the ocean, due to the fact that he ate his sandwich boat.

Main Titles Sequence

During the end credits, a 2D skit animated by Duck Studio reveals many last minute events.

• The town is renamed Chewandswallow 2,and the citizens reside in bread and other foods. They also use food for transportation, such as cars and boats.
• Flint and his father open up a new business where they sell the “Spray-On Shoe” formula to fix roofs.
• The mayor’s obesity is gone, and he is arrested by Earl and Cal.
• Famous landmarks are repaired and transformed into a food paradise (with the exception of the Palace of Westminster).

Logo

This was the first Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation film to have an altered logo sequence. When the Columbia Pictures logo appears, a banana hits the Torch Lady and knocks her out of the image. During the Sony Pictures Animation logo sequence, dark clouds uncover the end of the logo.

Cast

• Bill Hader as the voice of Flint Lockwood, a young inventor, Sam’s love interest, and the main protagonist. Max Neuwirth voices his younger self.
• Anna Faris as the voice of Samantha “Sam” Sparks, a weather intern from New York City and Flint’s love interest.
• Neil Patrick Harris as the voice of Steve the Monkey, Flint’s pet monkey who can communicate through a speak and spell thought-translating device.
• James Caan as the voice of Tim Lockwood, Flint’s technophobic father.
• Bruce Campbell as the voice of Mayor Shelbourne, the selfish mayor of Swallow Falls and the primary antagonist. The mayor is unhappy with his size in the beginning, and when food falls from the sky, he eats a lot of the food, and later becomes obese.
• Andy Samberg as the voice of Brent “Baby Brent” McHale, a celebrity mascot of Baby Brent’s Sardines and Flint’s school rival, later friend.
• Mr. T as the voice of Officer Earl Devereaux, the town’s athletic cop.
• Bobb’e J. Thompson as the voice of Cal Devereaux, Earl’s son.
• Benjamin Bratt as the voice of Manny, Sam’s Guatemalan cameraman and former doctor, comedian and pilot.
• Al Roker as the voice of Patrick Patrickson, the anchorman of the weather station.
• Lauren Graham as the voice of Fran Lockwood, Flint’s mother who always believed in her son.
• Will Forte as the voice of Joe Towne, a redneck citizen of Chewandswallow who appears on numerous occasions throughout the film.

Production

On August 15, 2006, Sony Pictures Animation announced it would produce a film adaptation of the book, attempting to tell the origins of Chewandswallow’s weather.^[3] On September 18, 2008, Variety announced that Bill Hader and Anna Faris had signed on to voice the two lead characters, with James Caan, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobb’e J. Thompson, Benjamin Bratt, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, and Will Forte also in the voice cast.^[4] Co-writers and co-directors Philip Lord and Chris Miller said later that year that it would be a homage to, and a parody of, disaster movies such as Twister, Armageddon, and The Day After Tomorrow.^[5]

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is the second animated film to be made using Sony’s animation rendering software, Arnold,^[6] and the open source image toolkit OpenImageIO.^[7]

Marketing and release

The first trailer was released online on March 18, 2009 and was planned to premiere with DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens, in 3-D. The second trailer was released on July 1, 2009 with 20th Century Fox’s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The film released on September 18, 2009 in the US and in Japan on September 19, 2009.

The film’s second trailer and some of its commercials feature Journey’s Any Way You Want It and Europe’s The Final Countdown.^{[citation needed]} The Japanese version of the commercial and the trailer of the movie features the song by Shoko Nakagawa titled “Rainbow Forecast”.^{[citation needed]}

Blu Ray and DVD Release

The DVD and Blu Ray disc will be released on January 5th, 2010.

Reception

Critical Reaction

The film has received favorable reviews from critics. ^[8] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 86% of critics gave positive reviews based on 105 reviews (90 “Fresh”, 15 “Rotten”) with an average score of 7.3/10. ^[9] Another review aggretator, Metacritic which normalizes a rating from mainstream critics, gave the film an approval rating of 66% based on 22 reviews. ^[8]

Ernest Hardy of LA Weekly stated the film “is smart, insightful on a host of relationship dynamics, and filled with fast-paced action.” Hardy also appluaded the 3-D effects which “are wonderful, full of witty sight gags that play out both center-screen…” ^[10] At the Movies host Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film a mixed review stating that “Crazy doesn’t always equal funny, and the gigantism of this 3-D offering’s second half puts a damper on your enjoyment. But look: This film wasn’t made for you, or me. It was made for dangerously, easily distracted 9-year-olds.” ^[11] Kyle Smith of the New York Post gave the film 2 stars stating that the animated movie “greatly expands on the kids’ book on which it’s based in a clever and engaging first half. But the second half leaves a foul aftertaste.” ^[12]

Box Office

The film earned $8,137,358 on its opening Friday, and ranked #1 at the box office^[13] with a total of $30,304,648 for the first weekend. On its second weekend, it remained #1 even though an 18% decrease occurred. It currently holds the record for third largest opening weekend in the month of September. It has made a worldwide total of, $178.8 million.^{[14] [15]}

Songs

• Raining Sunshine by Miranda Cosgrove
• Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows by Lesley Gore
• Fight the Power by Public Enemy
• Any Way You Want It by Journey
• Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project

The film’s main soundtrack was recorded by Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh.

Video Game

Ubisoft announced the game based on the film and it was released on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable on September 15, 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Art Book

In August 2009, Insight Editions published a companion book to the film called The Art & Making of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

References