The movie opens with young kindergartner whizzkid inventer Flint Lockwood presenting his new device to his classmates during a show-and-tell – spray-on rubber shoes. The class are initally awestruck until the class bully points out a major fault – the shoes are permanently stuck! Throughout the years, adult Flint (an excellent Bill Hader) develops more and more contraptions each with their imperfections causing evermore disapprovement from his technophobe father (as voiced by James Caan) until one day he invents a machine that causes food to fall from the sky.

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