The story starts eight minutes after the events of the first film , Flint Lockwood and his friends celebrate their success of saving the world from the food storm in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 .
Eight minutes after the events of the first film , Inventor Flint Lockwood and his friends celebrate their success of saving the world from the food storm created by the `` Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator '' ( FLDSMDFR ) but this has left their island home town of Swallow Falls covered in food .
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2