Quezon City University

Science Department
Fundamentals of Creativity and Innovation
Name: KYLA KIM B. ARIAS CYS: SBAC-2D Date: October 27, 2021

FILM REVIEW
Guide Questions:
1. What is the title of the movie?

The movie that we watched is entitled “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”.

2. The creativity and innovativeness of the protagonist in the story originated in what?

Flint Lockwood is an inventor who dreams, and has always dreamed, of creating amazing things that can
change everyone's lives, despite his career being hit or miss. He plays the main character in Cloudy with a
Chance of Meatballs. Flint was dissatisfied with himself because of school. His mother gave him a professional-
grade lab coat when he was eight years old to buck him up. Then she told him to make more inventions, so he
scribbled "Best Inventor Ever!" on a scrap of paper. After that, Flint is determined to create useful and
innovative inventions that are helpful in their community.

3. Enumerate the different inventions of Flint Lockwood and what was the greatest among his inventions?

Before creating his greatest inventions, Flint Lockwood had multiple failures in developing his other
inventions. These are inventing spray-on shoes, a remote-controlled television, hair un balder and rat-birds.
After several attempts, Flint invents the "Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator,"
abbreviated FLDSMDFR. This machine converts water molecules into food: whatever you want.

4. Describe the characteristics of Flint Lockwood as a creative person.

Flint is a good-natured, slightly unconventional, well-mannered, funny, hyperactive, friendly, hardworking,

respectful, playful, passionate, energetic, brilliant, and creative inventor. As a child, he was a prodigy who
aspired to be an inventor. Flint is essentially the town psychopath. Most residents regard him as a nuisance
with crazy hair who brought pesky ratbirds onto the island. Flint, on the other hand, is determined to prove
everyone wrong. These characteristics of him play a big role in his successful invention.

5. Based on the film, how does the environment play an important role in nurturing a person's creativity and
innovativeness?

As I watch the movie, I appreciate the importance of the environment in nurturing a person’s creativity and
innovativeness in a way that if your environment is not in favor of you or your dreams, it will not be easy for
you to fulfill it. As what Flint Lockwood experienced when he was a child, his friends bullied him for being a
nerd but his Mom encouraged him to pursue his passion and became the best inventor. After the death of his
mother, Flint’s Dad is not confident of his child's capability and only wants him to help on their business. This
shows that your environment may either bring you down or pull you up. It is still up to you if you let other
people stop you from being creative and innovative.

6. Summarize the film based on the fundamental aspect of creativity: the creative person, creative
environment, creative process, and creative product.
 The plot began with Flint, a young boy who lives on an island in the Atlantic and survives by catching
and canning sardines. When the sardine market collapses and the citizens tire of eating their own sardines, he
decides to save his island by inventing a machine that can convert ordinary water into any food on the planet:
hamburgers, ice cream, jellybeans, you name it. Flint's inventiveness in creating this machine demonstrates
that he has the potential to be an inventor, but his father insists that he work in the family fishing tackle and
sardine store.His father may require assistance because he lacks visible eyes and has a thick brow that grows
straight across his face. Flint, on the other hand, works late at night in his treehouse, which eventually grows
to be the largest structure in town.
Jellybeans are consumed by children throughout the day. Gummi Bears can be found everywhere.
Hamburgers can be found on trees. The machine appears to only produce food that children enjoy. But no
broccoli with the pizza. There is an issue. Because of an error, the machine became uncontrollable, and they
had no edible food to eat. The film depicted the candies in such a way that they appear to be a part of nature
and that they can coexist with them.
A spaghetti and meatball tornado funnel cloud. Its speed causes meatballs to spin off and rain down on
the town, making it appear as if a monster was going to eat them all up what a mess it had made of the town.
Outside of town, there is a massive refuse heap that resembles a slag heap and is held back by a dam. Flint, his
girlfriend, and a friend tunnel into a candy mountain in an attempt to stop the food storm, resulting in the
peanut brittle crisis. Other characters include the town's bombastic mayor, a Herculean mascot for sardine
advertising campaigns, a monkey, and so on.
Based on the film, creative depicted Flint's journey to build a machine and how they became a part of the
community.

7. For every invention there are positive and negative effects in the film, how is the invention of Flint
Lockwood used in positive and negative ways?

Flint Lockwood's invention was used in a positive way in terms of providing the townspeople with different
unlimited foods where they could simply catch it through the sky, you have the choice to pick what kind of
food you want to it but there are some negative ways about this food machine wherein it can cause people to
be lazy and greedy. They will simply rely on the foods that they receive, causing them to be unable to
work.Another disadvantage is that the machine did not respond correctly, resulting in the town being flooded
with large foods, and their houses, buildings, and even trees being destroyed as a result.

Flint Lockwood's invention was used positively in terms of Every invention will undoubtedly have a positive
impact on someone, but it will also have a negative impact that will keep things balanced as they are.
Just like what happened to Flint Lockwood, and it's nice that at the end of the movie he realized that you
should invent something for the right reasons, not for the fame or recognition that you will receive from other
people, but for the satisfaction and use it can have for you and others.