40 Fun Facts About Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Which foodimal with French-fry legs is the main large threat on the island in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

The Cheespider turns out to be friendly: it attacks only people wearing the villain's company gear, and in the end it eats him.

Barry, the shy foodimal who befriends Flint Lockwood's group in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, is which fruit?

A strawberry with 406 individually modelled seeds and 5,243 tiny hairs, Barry speaks gibberish that began as real dialogue recorded by one of the directors.

Which company in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, run by Chester V, has a name that hides a backwards clue?

Live Corp spells evil backwards, which is how Flint Lockwood's friends realise why the foodimals distrust anyone dressed in its gear.

The Breakfast Bog in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, home of the Mosquitoasts, is filled with which sticky liquid?

Maple syrup fills the whole bog, so the effects team bought a huge batch, poured it into a pan and sloshed it around to see how it moved.

The Buffaloaf, a meatloaf buffalo in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, wears a thick coat of which condiment?

Ketchup forms the thick coat of the Buffaloaf, and the horns on its head are a pair of onion rings.

Which river carnivore in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 do its makers call one of the film's larger threats?

The Tacodile, a taco crossed with a crocodile, came out of one weekend in which the lead character designer listed more than 100 food-and-animal puns.

Which foodimals does Flint Lockwood's father befriend and teach to fish in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

The Pickles love fishing, football and hockey as much as he does, and the directors saw them as stand-ins for the grandchildren he does not have yet.

Barb, the lipstick-wearing assistant with a human brain in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, is which kind of ape?

An orangutan with a human brain inside her ape brain, Barb hates being called a monkey and ends up turning against her bullying boss.

Which foodimals rescue Flint Lockwood from a river in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 after he sees them created?

The Marshmallows greet him the moment they are made, which convinces him the creatures are harmless and the machine must not be shut down.

Chester V, the villain of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, goes everywhere with what kind of copies of himself?

Holograms of himself act as his yes-men, a contrast the directors wanted with a hero who begins the story surrounded by friends and family.

Which foodimals in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 do the filmmakers describe as gentle Jurassic herbivore giants?

Wild Scallions, made of long green onions, were among the river creatures added as the story grew, and one director called the overgrown island the Serengeti of food.

Which foodimals in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 use their crustacean tails as hands?

The Shrimpanzees were dreamed up by the film's head of story, and the animators watched real shrimp to work out how a tail could grip like a hand.

One director of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 invented the Bananostrich and which pachyderm foodimal with babies?

The Watermelophant keeps the texture of the real fruit, a design rule meant to let children recognise their favourite foods in the creatures.

Which vegetable aboard the boat in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 becomes a running joke about its name?

A leek on board sets up a pun the film keeps returning to, and the Los Angeles Times critic called the gag a silly delight.

The Hippotatomus in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 has a butter tongue and teeth made of which garnish?

Chives line its jaws, and steam pours out whenever the Hippotatomus opens its mouth, just as it would from a freshly baked potato.

The Meatbalrus in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 has pasta whiskers, bow-tie pasta feet and tusks made of what?

Breadsticks give the Meatbalrus its tusks, so the meatball walrus comes with the rest of an Italian dinner attached.

The dessert section of the island in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a mountain made of which sweet?

Rock candy forms a giant geode with a waterfall running through it, a set the designers rated even harder to build than the first film's Jell-O mold.

A Mosquitoast in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is browned bread with raisin eyes and a beak made of what?

A cinnamon stick forms the beak, which makes every Mosquitoast a flying slice of cinnamon-raisin toast, and hundreds of them fill one swamp sequence.

The Fruit Cockatiel in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 has banana-peel feathers and a body made of which fruit?

A pear makes up the bird's body, one of the many puns from lead designer Craig Kellman, who said there was no pun too stupid for him.

To which invented California city are Flint Lockwood's neighbors moved in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

San Franjose blends San Francisco with Silicon Valley, and the film's designers took a three-day field trip to the real city before drawing it.

Super-inventor Chester V is first introduced in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 as Flint Lockwood's what?

Childhood idol Chester V was conceived as part tech tycoon and part circus ringmaster, built to ask what happens when a nerdy kid finally meets his hero.

Into what new product does Chester V plan to turn captured foodimals in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Food bars made from foodimals were to be his company's next product line, and he threatens to turn Flint Lockwood's captured friends into them as well.

Which member of Flint Lockwood's team becomes the love interest of Barb in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Steve, the pet monkey who speaks only a few words through a thought translator, becomes the object of her crush as the story goes on.

Cameraman Manny is found at which new job in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, busy delivering a calf?

Veterinarian is only the latest of his many trades: Manny is also a doctor, a pilot and a comedian, and he leaves his vet techs mid-delivery to grab his camera.

Which Flint Lockwood invention humiliates him in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 but later defeats Chester V?

The Celebrationator goes off by accident just as a promotion is handed to another employee, then gets fired on purpose to free his captured friends.

The headquarters of Chester V's company in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is shaped like which object?

A light bulb suited a company built on ideas, and the designer had already given Chester V a head of the same shape; the tower dwarfs the hero's whole hometown.

What does Brent, once the baby on sardine cans, wear to promote restaurants in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

A chicken suit is his uniform as he spins a foam-board arrow for the Chick-N-Sushi restaurants, a job he puts on hold to help save the world.

Which job does former cop Earl Devereaux hold before the island mission in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

A barista at an upscale coffee house, Earl answers the call to adventure by back-flipping out of the door in uniform.

The heroes' boat lands inside which giant fruit in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

A coconut catches the boat in a pool of its own milk, which the effects team had to simulate as a thicker, goopier liquid than ordinary water.

Which longtime SNL cast member voices both Flint Lockwood and his food machine in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Bill Hader had just finished his eighth and final season on the sketch show, and said he felt a kinship with a hero who is nerdy, nervous and not great with girls.

Which former NFL player replaced Mr. T as the voice of Earl Devereaux in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Terry Crews took his children to the premiere of the first film, and they sent him off to the recording booth with orders not to mess it up.

Which star of The House Bunny voices meteorologist Sam Sparks in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Anna Faris called Sam one of the smarter characters she has played, and said the foodimals were her favourite part of the film.

The role of Barb in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 was written for which voice of Louise in Bob's Burgers?

Kristen Schaal was the directors' first choice, and they wrote and modelled the insecure assistant expressly for her.

Which actor voices Chester V in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 after playing Joe Towne in the first film?

Will Forte steered the villain somewhere kookier than the crisp, refined inventor first written, and had to record whole conversations with himself.

Which duo directed the first film but stayed on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 only as executive producers?

Lord and Miller hand-picked two members of their own story team to direct in their place, and still share the sequel's story credit.

The food puns of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 drew on the bread-and-butterflies of which Victorian author?

Lewis Carroll put a Bread-and-butterfly and a Rocking-horse-fly in Through the Looking-Glass, where a gnat teaches Alice about looking-glass insects.

Which co-founder of the new wave band Devo composed the score for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

Mark Mothersbaugh was the lead singer of the group behind the hit Whip It before turning to film scores, which include The Lego Movie.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 was first announced as Cloudy 2 with which subtitle, later dropped?

Revenge of the Leftovers gave way to a plain number, and the release date moved as well: from December to the following February, then forward to September.

Which director of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 also voices Barry, speaking real lines that are then pitched up?

Cody Cameron, also the voice of Pinocchio and the Three Little Pigs in the Shrek films, pitched the sequel with real produce he carved and photographed in his back yard.

Which actor, Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, voices Flint Lockwood's father in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?

James Caan described Tim Lockwood as old-fashioned and slow-thinking but loving, a fisherman who never knew how to say that he cared.