Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs...Is Portal 2, With Food. · 6:12am Aug 24th, 2013
So I'm at my cousins' house and we turned on the TV and saw that Cloudy was on (though half of it was done), and we decided, despite its strange story, to watch it. And nearing the end, I realized something; the story is basically a re-write of Portal 2. Here's why: (I'm writing about the first part of the movie from memory, since I watched it a couple years ago.)
The movie is about a boy who wants to be an inventor, though he always failed and everyone didn't think that he'd get far. In Portal, whenever Glados had a science fair, she'd always have the same boring project; no one expected anything from it.
Flint, after multiple years, created the food creating thing, trying to change the world. Glados created portals, which she thought would make the world a better place. (But you know what happened.)
*fast forward a bit*
The food thing created a mind of its own (or something) and started to create things of mass destruction. Wheatley, a core that was created to contain Glados (or whatever he was made for), turned evil and started mass destruction.
The object is to defeat it.
The way they try to destroy the problem in Cloudy is by placing a USB with a "kill code" on it into the machine to over-run it. In Portal you place multiple cores in him to over-run him.
During the end fight scene, the invention tries to attack Flint by throwing food at him. During the boss battle in Portal 2, Wheatley throws bombs at you as an attack.
Also, both Cloudy and Portal's "fight arena"s are pretty similar when it comes to places you can jump on, and the boss in itself.
When the kill code fails, he uses the "Spray On Shoes" thing to make the machine implode. In Portal you put a portal on the moon and make Wheatley and all the cores fly off into space, holding on to Wheatley. Now they seem pretty different, that's not the point of this reason. In the movie, Flint falls down the whole underneath the machine, since he couldn't hold onto his invention, because he just made it implode. In the game, Glados pulls you down, back through the portal, making you let go of Wheatley, making him blast off into SPAAAAAAACEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
In the next scene, you see the world coming back to normal, the civilians cheering up and becoming peaceful once again. Once Glados sends you off to live your life one again, you see all the turrets, becoming pacifistic (this point doesn't really support my thoughts, but what ever.)
You then see Flint's dad, coming out of the "Porta-Dump" (as they called it) which was the entrance/exit of Flint's "lab". This reminds me of the ending of Portal 2 when you're sent off and the door of t what looks like a small shack closes, though it underneath it was Aperture Science.
Then, comes the shock in which Flint didn't come back, and was assumed to be dead, his Dad and all his "friends" sad. And then, out of no where, he came. Once you were forcefully sent out of Aperture, you were given back the Companion Cube, to remember your times by, and since you just all around loved the thing.
Some other stuff that I forgot to mention during this that I'm too lazy to go back and put in:
Brent (or whatever his name was) sort-of played the roll of Glados in some cases. When he was fighting off the chicken, things, he said something about helping society. In Portal 2, that would be Glados helping you to kill Wheatley. He also reminded me of Cave.
The fry oil pit things inside the caverns in which the machine resided is like the acid pits in Portal.
Steve the monkey is literally Caroline; he doesn't help at all but is pretty cool.
When the girl got an allergic reaction and made it really hard for them to work is basically when you accidentally cover a cube with blue gel or accidentally lose a cube/place the wrong portal but you don't want to start the chamber over.
There's probavly more, but I don't remember anything else. Ina out!
1697066 Actually, I've gotten bored and done a bit of research on both of them, and the correct title would've been "Portal 2 is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with Technology" since it came out second.
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