Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Something big was leftover.
After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.
In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “foodimal island”. The story fights on E7/E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, environment, corporate, autonomy, community.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Pokémon 4Ever (2001)E7/E8 · rare rung · environment, exploitation
The Last Winter (2006)E7/E8 · rare rung · exploitation
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · environment
2012: Ice Age (2011)E7/E8 · rare rung · community, environment
The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)E7/E8 · rare rung · community, environment
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)E7 · rare rung · community, environmentSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Mutant Chronicles (2008)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Moon (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Pom Poko (1994)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ghost in the Shell (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Mermaid (2016)consciousness in monsters · coastal merfolk conflict
The Prophecy (1995)consciousness in monsters · haunted forest
Frozen II (2019)consciousness in monsters · enchanted forest
Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow (2007)consciousness in monsters · fairy realm
Barbie Presents: Thumbelina (2009)consciousness in monsters · fairy garden
Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)consciousness in monsters · pokemon realmSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)consciousness in animals · community, environment
Bee Movie (2007)consciousness in animals · environment, exploitation
Roger & Me (1989)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment, exploitation
Moana (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment
Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1990)consciousness in aliens · environment
Cars 2 (2011)consciousness in machines · corporate, environment
