Food Animals
Foodimals, short for Food Animals, are the overarching protagonists of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. They are living food-based creatures with the characteristics of animals that were created by Flint Lockwood's FLDSMDFR.
Origin
After the FLDSMDFR survived its destruction and landed on the abandoned Swallow Falls, it continued to create more mutated food, turning the island into a food paradise. In addition to the distinct biomes it created, the FLDSMDFR produced living mutated food with the characteristics of animals.
Behavior
Every species of Foodimal behaves differently. Some are carnivorous and will chase down prey, while others are more docile and prefer to eat local plant life. However, one thing all Foodimals have in common is their respect and reverence for their creator, known to them as "N-woo."
List of Foodimals
Notable Foodimals
These Foodimals have a significant impact on Flint and his friends' journey when they return to Swallow Falls. Information about these foodimals is plentiful, including behavior, development, and relationship to other Foodimals. Click on their pages to learn more!
Common Foodimals
These Foodimals are seen commonly around Swallow Falls. Though they feature prominently in Flint's journey and in promotional material for the film, not much is known about them besides which food/animal combinations make up their forms.
Obscure Foodimals
These Foodimals appear sparingly throughout the movie and its associated media, often appearing only once. Very little is known about these Foodimals.
Living Food
These Foodimals are some of the FLDSMDFR's earliest creations. They are not combinations of food and animal and are simply sentient food. In the first film, mutated sentient "super food" were shown to reside within the FLDSMDFR's domain and protect its "Meat-a-roid". This concept of vicious sentient food was expanded on in the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs video game.
Behind the Scenes
The idea of living food originally began in the first Cloudy movie. Instead of a disastrous food storm, Mayor Shelbourne would have shot the FLDSMDFR out of the sky, where it would land in the ocean and congeal into a giant food monster. The idea was scrapped for being too similar to another Sony film.
Character Designer Craig Kellman came up with around 200 food puns, like "turtleoni," "corn dogs (huskies, of course)," "gingeraffes," and "porkupines." Some cut foodimals that were favorites of the directors were Cumin Being, Spamwhale, Goatmeal, and Guacamoles. Anna Faris also pitched a Guacaghanoush.[1]
The ecosystem of the Foodimals was originally based on "healthy food" vs. "junk food" for which foods would be docile and vicious, but that qualification was too subjective so humor was prioritized. Fast food would originally attack its condiments - in an early version of the script, Tim Lockwood saved a Pickle from a Cheespider by stabbing it with a toothpick. In an early version of the script, Earl smashed a Tacodile to pieces.
Trivia
- The idea of an island filled with animal-food hybrids is similar to the book Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky.
- Some animal-food hybrids in the book include the Hippopatomushroom, Orangutangerine, Radishark, Avocadodo, Broccolion, Spinachicken, Bananaconda, Porcupineapple, Potatoad, Mangorilla, and Camelberta Peach.
| Sentient Food | |
| Foodimals | |
| Bananostrich • Buttoad • Cheespider • Leek • Marshmallow • Mosquitoast • Pickles • Sasquash • Strawberry • Tacodile Supreme • Watermelophant • Wild Scallion | |
| Enemy Food Creatures | |
| Broccoli • Cream Puffs • Gummy Bears • Ice Cream Snowmen • Man-Eating Chickens • Marshmallow • Onions • Pomegranates • Roast Chickens • Scallops • Spaghetti Twister |