Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Aspiring scientist Flint Lockwood lives with his widowed father, Tim, and his monkey assistant, Steve, in Swallow Falls, an island in the Atlantic Ocean with an economy based on sardines. As sardines are considered unsavory by the rest of the world, the island’s economy declines, forcing its citizens to subsist on a mainly sardine-based diet. One day, Flint develops the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator, a device that converts water into food, in an effort to expand the town’s diet, much to the chagrin of Tim, who, annoyed by Flint’s failed contraptions, wants him to run the family business instead.  Flint’s first attempt to plug the device in knocks out his house’s power, so he connects the FLDSMDFR to a local substation, overloading it and sending it rocketing across town, demolishing Sardine Land, a sardine-themed amusement park meant to revitalize the town, and disappearing into the sky.

The chaos earns Flint the ire of the town, along with that of Sam Sparks, an amateur field reporter, and the disappointment of Tim. Soon after, cheeseburgers begin falling from the sky and Flint realizes the FLDSMDFR is functioning successfully in the stratosphere, using the condensation from clouds to create food-based weather systems while keeping itself afloat. Swallow Falls rejoices in their new food choices, is renamed Chewandswallow, and becomes a “food tourism” destination, making Flint an international celebrity. Flint and Sam grow closer after she reveals that she was teased as a child for her glasses and her fascination with meteorology. However, Flint notices the FLDSMDFR’s food has begun to gradually become bigger in size, due to the FLDSMDFR’s creations mutating exponentially in the atmosphere, having being overloaded by the massive amounts of water vapor.