Term Paper Outline: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Introduction

            -The physics in Cloudy 2 is just plain crazy

            -obviously, the reasoning behind it is all for the sake of story

            -Thesis: Even though the filmmakers constantly break the rules of the real world, they do so in a consistent manner that makes us suspend disbelief so that we as the audience buy into the story and world they call "reality." 

          

Balance and Weight- Buildings with impossible structures

            -the Elevator tube at LiveCorp (0:11)

            -SanFranJose (0:08)

            -LiveCorp's giant glass lightbulb (0:09) (0:12)

Defying Gravity- Characters and Locations with crazy weight and gravitational pulls

            -Flint falling from a rock candy precipice (1:04)

            -LiveCorp's light bulb-shaped water fountain (0:09)

            -Coffee floating in zero Gravity (0:11)

Broken Bones and Stretched Muscles- Characters with seemingly jelly insides

            -Chester V's intro shot (0:01)

            -The big surprise of Food Animals (0:32)

            -Slapping off the maquitoasts (0:55)

Conclusion

            -certain scenes work in the real world, majority do not

            -Cloudy 2 is grounded in its own reality.