Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a 2013 American animated science fiction comedy film directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn and written by Erica Rivinoja, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. The sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and the second and final installment in the franchise, it was produced by Sony Pictures Animation. Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt and Neil Patrick Harris reprise their roles from the first film, with Will Forte in a new role, Terry Crews replacing Mr. T, and Kristen Schaal joining the cast. The plot focuses on Flint Lockwood and his friends returning to Swallow Falls when the presumed-destroyed FLDSMDFR 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. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but was deemed inferior to its predecessor.

Following the FLDSMDFR 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 the town's 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 while the promotion is being given to another employee.

Chester later informs Flint that the seemingly-destroyed machine is still functioning and creating sentient food creatures known as "Foodimals", one 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 USB flash drive-like device known as the "BS-USB" to shut it down. Flint takes along his pet monkey Steve, his meteorologist girlfriend Sam Sparks, her cameraman Manny, police officer Earl Devereaux and former Swallow Falls mascot "Chicken" Brent. Flint also 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 Sam dubs "Barry". A Cheespider, the cheeseburger/spider foodimal 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 Sam was right. He defies Chester and refuses to shut down the FLDSMDFR. Chester fights Flint and inserts the BS-USB, now revealed to be a reprogramming device, into the machine. With the FLDSMDFR now under his control, Chester throws Flint into a river and starts capturing foodimals, planning to use them as the key 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 and eventually go extinct. 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 save the island.

Tim and the foodimals catapult Flint and Barry into the new Live Corp factory Chester has constructed on the island; there, they release the captive foodimals, who subdue Chester's guards. Flint confronts Chester, but he threatens to put Flint's captive friends into a chopping machine; Barb is reluctant to participate in this, so Chester dismisses her. Flint uses the Celebrationator to defeat Chester and free his friends; Chester attempts to flee with the FLDSMDFR, but is cornered by Flint's group and the foodimals. Having changed sides, 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.