Complete Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Character Guide: All Names and Actors

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The outside world arrives on the island in the form of Sam Sparks, an ambitious weather intern portrayed by Anna Faris. Sent by the Weather News Network on what was assumed to be a throwaway assignment, Sam conceals her immense meteorological intellect behind a bubbly persona to avoid being bullied for her nerdiness. Her partnership with Flint works because both understand the sting of masking their obsessions to fit into everyday society. Faris balances hyperactive broadcast delivery with sharp comedic timing, establishing Sam as the intellectual equal, and often the intellectual superior, to the film’s inventor.

Behind the camera stands Manny, Sam’s stoic cameraman voiced by Benjamin Bratt. Initially silent, Manny gradually reveals a history that borders on the surreal: he is a fully licensed physician, an experienced commercial pilot, and a former member of a Guatemalan comedy troupe. Bratt’s stone-faced line delivery turns Manny into one of the franchise’s quiet scene-stealers.

Back on the ground, the island operates under the watchful, hyper-vigilant eye of Officer Earl Devereaux, originally voiced with roaring intensity by Mr. T (and later by Terry Crews in the 2013 sequel). Earl is an athletic community officer whose chest hair literally tingles when danger approaches. His fierce, over-the-top devotion to his son Cal contrasts against Tim Lockwood’s quiet awkwardness, creating a parallel vision of fatherhood.

The town’s shallow commercial vanity is embodied by Baby Brent, played by Andy Samberg. Brent coasted for decades on his infant fame as the face of the local sardine cannery, wandering the streets in an oversized diaper and screaming his own name. As the food weather eclipses his local celebrity, Brent undergoes a bizarre identity crisis, eventually reinventing himself as "Chicken Brent" during the climax inside a giant roasted fowl.

Guiding the town toward ruin is Mayor Shelbourne, voiced by cult-film icon Bruce Campbell. Driven by bottomless greed and unhinged vanity, Shelbourne co-opts Flint’s invention to turn Swallow Falls into an unchecked glutton’s paradise, physically gorging himself throughout the film until he balloons into a massive, rolling sphere of self-interest.