Hapless Insurance Loss Adjuster – Martin Dyer – feels his life is spiralling out of control but discovers that even when you reach rock bottom, that some clouds really do have a silver lining.

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?