Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Difference between revisions

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Flint encourages Sam to embrace the "nerdy" image she abandoned from childhood because that's who she is. Drops an anvil about the fact that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

* [[Big Eater]]: The Mayor, {{spoiler|to the point where he eats his own life raft.}}

* [[Big Red Button]]: Flint installs one to activate the orders into the food weather machine, and of course, he HAD to make it big, bright, and glowing red.

* [[Pothole|Bilingual Bonus]]: When Manny first sees the Gummy Bears, he whispers "Was ist das?" which is "What is that?" in German, not Spanish...

* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Flint's mom was loving and supportive of Flint's inventive ways. She died off screen before Flint grew up, leaving the more distant and less supportive father behind to deal with Flint.

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: The Mayor.

** [[Double Subversion|Double-subverted]], as the Mayor DID get a haircut, too, and takes his question to heart!

* [[Dirty Coward]]: The Mayor. Sure, blame Flint for your ignorant meddling.

* [[Miraculous Malfunction]]: Flint hooks up his machine to the town's power station to give it enough electricity to create food from water. Instead, the extra power makes the machine take off like a rocket and start orbiting in the lower stratosphere, creating food that comes down in showers using moisture from the clouds. Later, being overworked makes the machine start overmutating the food and it eventually gains sentience.

* [[Missing Mom]]: Flint. She did have a brief scene with him as a kid, and they mentioned she died. We just don't know how. She even appears as a ghost during the end credit montage.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Overlaps with [[Almost Kiss]]. Flint gets a call when he and Sam are about to kiss inside the Jell-O structure.

* [[Monumental Damage]]: Lampshaded.

** {{spoiler|(While hanging under the machine with it preparing to blast him with food) "When it rains, you put on a coat...of Spray-On Shoes!" (blocks the machine's output hatch with the spray.)}}

* [[Professor Guinea Pig]] and [[Guinea Pig Family]]: Flint is shown testing out his inventions himself (and spraying his own feet to demonstrate the spray-on shoes), but his dad is also involved with the Remote Control Television and Hair Unbalder.

* [[Recursive Adaptation]]: A movie novelization of the film was released.

* [[Relax-O-Vision]]: Patrick cuts from Sam reporting on the storm to a shot of a puppy scampering in the background while weather forecasts scroll down the screen.

* [[Road Apples]]: That's ''not'' chocolate ice-cream Steve is flinging.

* [[Rocky Roll Call]]: Almost taken to an extreme towards the end, similar to the scene in ''[[Shrek]] 2''.

'''Flint:''' Everything's made of Jello! This piano, those sconces, that ghetto blaster, that Jello... }}

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: {{spoiler|Inverted on Sam.}}

** The ending credits use a style inspired by ''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Yellow Submarine]]''. As a nod to this, they feature a short scene of the central characters dressed as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

** Shout outs to other sources include:

* [[Title Drop]]: Played around with but never actually said.

* [[Toilet Humor]]: When Flint confesses he's never been in a snowball fight, Sam reacts with surprise and says "Even [[Everything Is Better With Monkeys|Steve]] is throwing chocolate snowballs!" Cut to Steve on a patch of ''vanilla'' ice cream throwing "chocolate snowballs." Sam reacts with appropriate disgust.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Throughout the film Steve wants Flint to make it rain gummy bears, but Flint refuses because "We know how you are around gummy bears!" {{spoiler|When our heroes journey to the giant meatball in the flying car to stop the food machine, at one point giant, living gummy bears appear and attack the flying car. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Steve subsequently goes into a frenzy, tearing apart/devouring them the whole time.]] }}

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Some previews showed {{spoiler|When the machine went horribly wrong.}} Subverted as they didn't give details on it, but still.

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