Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a 2013 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. The sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and the second installment in the franchise, it was directed by Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn and written by Erica Rivinoja, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. 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.