Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Most people think so. 77% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 76%.

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed? Wikipedia ↗

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, loosely based on Judi Barrett's 1978 children's book. Bill Hader voices Flint Lockwood, a failed inventor on a tiny Atlantic island whose latest creation — a machine that converts water into food — accidentally launches into the atmosphere and begins raining food on his island, making the struggling community a tourist destination. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, in their feature directorial debut, demonstrated the anarchic comic sensibility and visual inventiveness that would later define The Lego Movie and the Spider-Verse films.

The food weather escalated brilliantly from gentle cheeseburger showers to catastrophic spaghetti tornadoes and giant sentient food constructs. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs earned $243 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.