James Caan credited as playing...
Tim Lockwood
- Tim Lockwood: Not every sardine was meant to swim, son.
- Young Flint: I don't understand fishing metaphors!
- Flint Lockwood: Sam.
- Sam Sparks: Flint.
- Flint Lockwood: Sam.
- Sam Sparks: Flint.
- Tim Lockwood: Flint.
- Flint Lockwood: Dad.
- Steve: Steve!
- Tim Lockwood: [sighs] Look, when you... when you cast your line... if it's not straight, um...
- Sam Sparks: Oh, for crying out loud.
- [Sam puts Flint's Monkey Thought Translator on Tim's head]
- Tim Lockwood: [in a robotic voice] I'm proud of you, Flint. I'm amazed that someone as ordinary as me could be the father of someone as extraordinary as you. You're talented, you're a total original, and your lab is breathtaking. Your mom, she, uh, always knew you were going to be special. And if she were alive today, she'd tell us both: I told you so. Now, uh, look, when I take this thing off, and... you hear me make a fishing metaphor, just know that fishing metaphor means...
- Tim Lockwood: [Tim takes off the Monkey Translator and speaks in a normal voice] I love my son.
- Flint Lockwood: I love you too, Dad.
- [the crowd applauds]
- Tim Lockwood: Can you look me in the eye and tell me you've got this under control and it's not gonna end up in a disaster?
- Flint Lockwood: Yes.
- [hurriedly, looks in his father's eyes]
- Flint Lockwood: I've got this under control, and it's not gonna end up in a disaster!