Flint Lockwood is an eccentric young scientist whose awkward demeanor and half-baked inventions (ratbirds spray-on shoes and talking monkeys) have made him an outsider in his hometown of ChewandSwallow. All that is about to change with his latest contraption a miraculous food-making machine. His creation brings happiness to the town but when things go awry the forecast for the whole world quickly changes from sunny to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!