Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

If I'd have been studying geography or something then perhaps I could have made the excuse that this distraction was somehow related to my work but alas I fear that apart from giving myself more time off revision, it accomplished very little. Unless you count providing some content to write here of course in which case it did a pretty good job!

You probably know how the story goes already, geeky kid obsessed with science somehow manages to invent things in his garden that no scientist even conceived. Unlikely but seeing as that is the premise for the whole story, you have to stick with it. After a string of failed inventions, including spray on shoes to stop the 'epidemic' of untied laces - have they not heard of Velcro?

His big break comes when he invents a machine capable of producing food from water although he only gets it work when it accidentally flies into the sky after being connected directly to an electricity substation - not that that's dangerous or anything. The town becomes fascinated with the variety of food it is able to produce as previously they lived off a diet of sardines after realising that no one else wanted them because they were 'yukky'. The device overloads and starts producing food that is substantially larger than normal which leads to chaos across the world. In an attempt to stop it, they discover it has become sentient and begins defending itself with various foodstuffs, including ninja roast chicken.

They eventually manage to disable the device and the movie ends, without telling us what happened next. Did they resort to eating sardines again or did he invent a better device? Perhaps the moral of the story was something to do with greed being bad but if that was the aim I think it was lost, probably underneath a giant foodstuff.