Flubber Movie
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The stuff dreams are made of.
What is flubber?
Catch it if you can!
Phillip Brainard, who is a professor at a college and a small time worker in his own basement, is trying to create a great invention. Unfortunately he always failed to invent something, but he is so obsessed about it that he even puts off his own wedding to his fiancée, Sara. One day, he finally invents something that works, this substance can cause even the heaviest things to bounce in the air, 'flying rubber', but Brainard called it "Flubber". However, he sees Sara going out with another professor from another college and several criminals trying to rob him. So, Brainard has to find out a way to defeat the criminals and to get back his Fiancee. Hopefully, Flubber can help him.
| Robin Williams | Professor Philip Brainard |
| Marcia Gay Harden | Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds |
| Christopher McDonald | Wilson Croft |
| Raymond J. Barry | Chester Hoenicker |
| Clancy Brown | Smith |
| Ted Levine | Wesson |
| Wil Wheaton | Bennett Hoenicker |
| Edie McClurg | Martha George |
| Jodi Benson | Weebo |
| Leslie Stefanson | Sylvia |
| Malcolm Brownson | Father |
| Benjamin Brock | Window Boy |
| Dakin Matthews | Minister |
| Zack Zeigler | Teenage Boy |
| Sam Lloyd | Coach Willy Barker |
| Les Mayfield |
4.50 out of 10 (13408 votes)
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Flubber
posted on 05 May 2009When I was young, this Walt Disney Pictures film used to be quite amusing, especially because I was a big fan of Robin Williams after what I saw in Aladdin and Mrs. Doubtfire, and it is still a pleasant film. Williams plays the really absent minded Professor Philip Brainard. He has tried two times before to marry his love, Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden), but he fails for a third time. The reason, because he has invented a living green chemical thing. It lives, it flies and it is like rubber, so he names it Flubber. He tries to win Sara's heart back by proving his new discovery works and can save the college from closing. Also starring Christopher McDonald as the mean Wilson Croft, Raymond J. Barry as Chester Hoenicker, Clancy Brown as Smith and Ted Levine as Wesson.. The special effects are great, Williams is amusing and the comedy is fun for the kids and adults together. Worth watching!
Great talent,dry story.
posted on 05 May 2009I admire Robin Williams.His quick,improvisational humor make him the most unique entertainer of our time.However,he does from time to time make bad choices,and Flubber was indeed a bad one,at least scriptwise.This movie's problem is not from bad performances,but from terrible writing,and that often makes the performers look bad.The intentions here are good,but the movie just fell flat in all aspects.If you want to see a movie about flubber,I would highly suggest "The Absent Minded Professor".It's a classic and it's much better.
One big "Flub"
posted on 05 May 2009What was I thinking? I went into this movie actually *expecting* something! I could not believe how stupid it was! The "Flubber Mambo" sequence was pointless, although it was a nice display of Disney's CGI technology. All the roles were well-acted, though poorly written. But look on the bright side: if you're ever feeling down, just think of this line: "This one's for Weebo! HYAH!"
Hughes knock it off already!
posted on 06 Mar 2009John, please, give it a rest! Home Alone was 7 years ago, yet you continue to remake it seemingly every year. This time Hughes replaces a kiddie with the title glob to bash the adults around in the big finale. And unlike any kid, the flubber is at one point able to race thru a bad guy's anus!! Up until his usual antics, Hughes laughless script revolves around Williams discovery and those who want to steal it. But that's it! It's played out like a drama as that becomes the main plot. Then there's the infamous basketball sequence from the original film years ago, with nothing new put into it. Even the Fred McMurray classic, still kiddie-fied, was at least pleasant as it had fun with the flubber. Here its used to knock stuff over and race around the room and smash into the aforementioned goons. How many times can Hughes remake this lousy formula??!! Quit if for God's sake!
Not a great movie, but a funny one
posted on 13 Feb 2009"Flubber" is nothing special or extraordinary, but it is a funny one although, for such, it's important not to take it too seriously, otherwise...While certainly not a great movie, the movie is very underrated and for sure not as bad as many people make it sound. It's one of those movies which I think people tend to exaggerate on their criticisms. Of course that this is just my opinion. You don't have to agree with me, as long you respect my opinion in return.This is kind of a silly comedy, one of those made purely for laughing, fun and entertainment - its major priorities. To make sure it would be a crazy comedy, they chose «the man of the 1000 voices», Robin Williams, as the absent-minded/nutty scientist professor Philip Brainard. The result is, of course, a real scream, with this actor in a funny role instead of certain ridiculous roles he plays (such as that in "Birdcage"). Anyway, lots of humorous gags and laughs are a guarantee in this movie, even if the movie isn't super.Nevertheless, I seriously think that its biggest strenght is on its first half, while the second half is less funny, become a bit more ridiculous. But in general it is a watchable movie, one that is not as bad as you might think and also without bad stuff or bad surprises. I loved the Weebo character, just for the record.I confess that I never saw the original movie and I didn't know this was a "remake" of an old movie. But I hope to see the original sometime and compare them both.
Not As Good as "The Absent Minded Professor" But Pretty Funny
posted on 07 Feb 2009Tastes and times have changed drastically since 1961 when Fred MacMurray originally introduced the super-elastic stuff called 'flubber' to film audiences in Walt Disney's "The Absent Minded Professor." In the high-tech, 1990's Disney remake "Flubber" reinvents itself as an animated, gooey-green, silly putty blob of flying rubber that talks and dances. Actually, flubber resembles a combination of the Pillsbury Doughboy crossed with the shape-shifting water creature in James Cameron's 1989 fantasy thriller "The Abyss." Inventive, excessive, but tolerably entertaining, director Les Mayfield's remake of "The Absent Minded Professor" will captivate both young and absent-minded audiences. Happily, "Flubber" succeeds as a resilient special effects laden tour-de-farce. Sadly, the remake lacks the wit, warmth, subtlety, and comedic irony that distinguished its black & white predecessor. The spectacular morphing effects of George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic Company and the visual wizardry of Peter Crosman, Tom Bertino, and Douglas Hans Smith cannot offset the film's hopelessly befuddled plot.The story by John Hughes and the late Bill Walsh follows the zany efforts of a scatterbrained university chemistry professor. Dr. Philip Brainard (Robin Williams of "Popeye") accidentally cooks up a gravity defying concoction called 'flubber.' Generating its own perpetual motion, 'flubber' has uses limited only by the imagination. Unlike the limp lump of 'flubber' in "The Absent-Minded Professor," the 'flubber' "Flubber" radiates a mischievous personality, but the filmmakers never solidify its amorphous character. Not only will Brainard 'flubber' rescue Medfield College from bankruptcy and closure, but 'flubber' will also redeem him in the eyes of the long-suffering sweetheart that he wants to wed: Medfield College President Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden.) Brainard heads up Sara Jean's you-know-what list. Three times in a row he has left her stranded at the altar! If things aren't bad enough, Brainard's old academic nemesis Wilson Croft (Christopher MacDonald of "Thelma & Louise") lurks in the background. Oil and conniving, Croft plans to pilfer Brainard's fiancée as well as take credit for his 'flubber' formula and the millions of dollars that it is sure to reap. The professor's next bigger enemy is perhaps his worst: corrupt businessman Chester Hoenicker (Raymond J. Barry of "Mad City"). Hoenicker's bratty son Bennett (Will Wheaton of TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation") flunked Brainard's class. Consequently, Bennett got suspended from the basketball team. Initially, all that Hoenicker sought was a simple change of grade so Bennett, the top hoopster on the Medfield basketball team, could resume playing. When Hoenicker senior learns more about 'flubber,' he joins forces with the equally avaricious Croft to rip-off Braniard's discovery.Women have come a long way since the 1961 original. Disney has promoted the fiancée from being the college president's secretary to the college president! Although Sara Jean presides over Medfield, she cannot keep it out of the red without the help of a good man. "Flubber" implies that women indeed have come a long way, but not far enough to get by on their own wits. Moreover, Sara Jean's romance with Brainard appears to occupy her every waking minute instead of the financial crisis that threatens her small, private college. Her priorities appear demeaningly misplaced. WEEBO, Brainard's flying female computer, serves as a sort of bad girl here who gets her just comeuppance for tampering with Brainard's social life. At one point, WEEBO creates a cyber-Siren image for herself to detract Brainard from Sara Jean."Flubber" sounds like a can't-miss-hit from this description. If anything, "Flubber" proves that absent-minded audiences appreciate movies with an absence of drama. The original movie contained a richer plot with a variety of nuances that heightened its hilarity. "Flubber" smears on obvious slapstick to churn up laughs. John Hughes' script relies on his tried and true "Home Alone" routines. Hughes deserves the blame for this half-baked farce. For example, Hoenicker's henchman, Smith (Clancy Brown of "Starship Troopers") and Wesson (Ted Levine of "Silence of the Lambs") are clearly stand-ins for the Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern duo from the "Home Alone" comedies. Brainard's flubber clobbers them literally in the form of a golf ball and a bowling ball. Smith gets nailed by a non-stop golf ball, while a hard flying bowling ball wallops Wesson. When either object strikes them, these goons hit the deck like pole-axed ten pins.Director Les Mayfield of "Encino Man" and "Miracle on 34th Street") and scenarist John Hughes cannot make up their own minds about flubber. Flubber has endless possibilities, and its embryonic personality can be playful but occasionally snappish, too. WEEBO accuses Brainard of giving flubber "too much free will." Flubber never seems to live up to its potential unless it is exploding, flying through rooms, and cronking noggins. Most of the humor comes from how flubber reacts to different situations more than how Brainard applies it. Because they never define the nature of flubber, its wide open character lacks dramatic clarity. For example, the filmmakers don't set any limits to what flubber can do. Perhaps Mayfield and company chose green as flubber's lime-green color because the special effects were so expensive.Credit goes to director Les Mayfield for the get-up-and-goo pace of dizzy Disney film. He does a find job of seamlessly integrating the over-the-top special effects with live action, too. "Flubber" is aimless but predictable fun. The villains seem less villainous this time around, and Christopher MacDonald's bad guy appears simply to give flubber something through which to fly. The bowel humor here and there adds little to the humor and seems out of place in a juvenile movie. Parents may find themselves in a curious moral dilemma trying to explain to their kids why Brainard's cheating tactics should be condoned. He applies flubber to the basketball team's sneakers to help them beat their tall, merciless opponents on the court. Danny Elfman's lively music emphasizes the fast, bouncy pace of "Flubber" and helps the film scoot right along to its inevitable happy ending.
Disney down...
posted on 23 Aug 2008It's a pity but Disney made every time worst cinema. How can someone spend so much money on this low quality product? Robin Williams is not a bad actor, but he can do anything against an horrible script. I think the children are quite intelligent nowadays, and they don't deserve this kind of movies... One piece of advice to Disney, please, abandon your projects to make movies like this. It's better that you put all your efforts in the animated industry where the movies keep and even improve their quality every year.
A pretty sorry looking picture...
posted on 27 Jul 2008Flubber dos'nt seem to know whether it's coming or going,much like the constant green goo which goes flying hither and yon throughout the course of the picture.Robin Williams is on unreassuring form as Philip Bearnard,an absent minded professor who keeps forgetting his missis wedding ,only to create a magical green serum which ,to the audience,seems to have no other purpose than to fly around in the air constantly and cause wacky predicaments. The humour here,Williams best gift,no matter what the oscars opinion of his roles in Dead Poet's Society and Good Will Hunting may be,is disappointingly tepid,and not very charasmatically handled.Quite empty stuff,and too broad for kids.
Entertaining and visually impressive, the film nevertheless falls short of the joyous satisfaction found in the original AMP
posted on 09 Jul 2008Philip (Robin Williams) is a chemistry professor at a college with financial woes. On a side note, the school's president, talented Sara Jean (Marcia Gay Harden) is Philip's girlfriend and she is deeply disappointed that he has left her standing at the altar THREE times. Yet, Philip truly loves Sara. His problem is, of course, that once he is into an experiment, he loses touch with everything else in his life. The day Philip misses his third trip up the aisle of love, he discovers something big...that is, flying rubber or flubber. Knowing this could be the invention that turns the college's ledger into the black, he is eager to tell Sara of the news. Unfortunately, she won't talk to him and is receiving the attentions of a rival chemistry prof at a nearby university. It is this rival's intention, along with a host of others connected to the school, to steal the rubbery substance for their own purposes. Will they succeed? This is a mildly entertaining film, mostly due to Williams star power and the spectacular visual effects the movie offers. Flubber, indeed, takes on a green personality not unlike the Pillsbury doughboy and bounces all over the place, causing much fun and havoc. There is also a tiny robot-computer, living with Philip, that is very appealing. Add on the eye-treat of flying cars and basketball superduper jumpshots and you have a technically impressive film. Yet, somewhere along the way, a bit of the original film's soul and joyous freshness is lost. No, its not the fault of the talented Williams, Harden, Christopher McDonald or the other cast members. They are quite fine. There are also some laugh out loud scenes, such as the one where Professor Philip starts giving a lecture, not noticing that he is in a figure drawing class, or the ones where a neighboring boy, quite rightly fears, to his father's consternation, what is outside his window when flubber is out and about. In summary, the film's problem is probably a case of trying too hard in the special effects category and not enough in the remaining aspects of film making. Even so, it is not a stretch to say that most families will like Flubber, as everyone will be amazed by the stunning look of the movie.
The Half of Everything !
posted on 09 Dec 2007This movie is : _Half laughable. (Robin Williams)'s buffoonery here is unbearable, misses with no hitting. There are some good ideas yet in the half of it you must feel bored. After that the whole rest is weak and disgusting; the Flubber comes out of the evil guy at the end !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? That will live long in the mind of anyone watched it, not as a funny memory, but as sick one. You'd feel that (Williams) with Disney wanted to remake not (The Absent Minded Professor) of the 1960s, but (The Nutty Professor) of the 1990s as modern near success of absolute rudeness ! Thank god that Walt Disney isn't alive anymore to witness this rubbish !._Half good in its especial effects. Although the first movie was years ago, and the CGI wasn't here yet. But the original's especial effects were much sane and much droll. Here it's sheer technique without even the ability to be comic or memorable. And by the way what's the necessity of the Flubber's dance at home ?! It's just an excess show for showing off ! _Half attractive. In 1998, one theater showed this movie in special day for kids, yes, I was in my 20s already but I insist on watching it since I didn't watch it before, and considering what a treat watching a Disney movie among audience of enthusiastic children is. But .. To tell you truth, at the end of the first half, I was having my way out ! Of course I watched it later in complete just to find out if I was wrong or right, and how right I was ! _The only things that I loved : (Danny Elfman)'s music, (Marcia Gay Harden); how you feel that the movie doesn't deserve her, and for sure the creative sophisticated opening credits, it's without a doubt not the best of the movie only, it's better than it ! _Comparing to the original The Absent Minded Professor's 2 movies, this is less than half of the fun of anyone of them.The Last Remark : at the beginning of the movie one character asks (Robin Williams) as Professor Brainard about how he handles his I don't remember what, and hearing mistakenly he replays about how he handles his "private parts" !??.. Even as an adult I hated it !
Great kids movie!
posted on 14 Mar 2007I first saw this as a kid, when I was probably about 5 or 6, and I thought that it was hilarious. I just recently took it out of the case to watch it again with a friend, and found that it was still funny! By now, I have seen both this and the original Absent-Minded Professor, and loved both that and Flubber. Yes that is possible. This movie is about Robin Williams who plays a professor who is also an inventor and invents a lot of robots to help him around the house, but is so focused on his work that he misses his own wedding...three times. He invents a green rubbery substance that can make things fly and do a lot of other things that will be fun to watch if you are, or ever were, a kid. Eventually, the bad guys try to get it for themselves, and the race is on! If you want an absolutely perfect movie, than this is NOT the movie. But if you want to watch an AMAZING comedy, than this is the one for you. And for those of you who are wondering why I gave what I called a not perfect movie a 10 out of 10, it is because I believe that in it's own way, it is perfect. A perfect comedy, and one of my favorites. If you can get your hands on a copy I would definitely recommend it, especially if you have young kids, or know young kids.
Watch the original instead of this really awful movie!!Avoid it at all costs!!
posted on 12 Feb 2007Flubber is another reamke from the Disney studios. The story was dumb, the whole movie put me to sleep!To think , I paid money to see on the big screen. But if you like Robin Williams playing another doctor/professor. The whole movie seemed to take parts of the original with Fred McMurray(who was great in the orginal in the 1960's). What Disney is basically renamed it's orginal title"The Absent Minded Professor" and changed it to "Flubber".I like the first title better than new one!!If you like disney's so called family films(some of which should of been rated PG or even PG-13!) , then you can watch this junk all you want!!I will stick to the orginal and so should you if know what the other reviews on here have said!!Avoid this movie ,it's a movie that just plain sucks!!
Painful and Droll
posted on 13 Jan 2007On a flight home from Japan the in-flight movies were Flubber, Home Alone 3, and For Richer or Poorer (starring Tim Allen and Kristie Allie). These are by far three of the worst films I have ever been subjected to. How I managed to see them all in one shot, I will never know. Luck I guess.
Bearable only for kids
posted on 20 Dec 2006A few good jokes, tolerable special effects, that's all. This film doesn't try to be a great piece of art, it wants nothing else than to entertain people, mainly children. And for children and also other people who don't think about it any longer, it's fun and therefore able to bring the producers a lot of money. For people like me, it rather hurts. A machine falling in love with a professor? Is that cute? A man who misses his wedding three times? Not really. Luckily, we're told in no uncertain terms that John Hughes is responsible for this: the "Home Alone`-head-bangings come up again and again. And everybody's laughing...?
HORRIBLE!!
posted on 07 Aug 2006I used to think Fred MacMurray was a bad actor who worked in mostly stupid movies back when Disney used to make really dumb movies. Then I saw the re-make of FLUBBER and I gained a lot of respect for poor, dearly departed Fred MacMurray. He really made the stupid FLUBBER concept look silly instead of just pathetically idiotic! SPOILERS: Robin Williams however, aided by incredible special effects, made FLUBBER look like some kind of lumpy green anal cream. MacMurray had the ability to make a dumb script look like a silly kiddie movie. Williams makes a dumb script look like some kind of weirdo sicko movie. Williams has zero chemistry with his girlfriend in the movie, and he looks like he has more chemistry with his dog than anything else. In this movie, Williams acts and looks WEIRD. Plus Williams as the 45 year old High School absent-minded Professor gave me the willies. The fact that he had anything to do with the basketball team made me wonder if he was also the volunteer shower-caddy. I am not sure what it was, but Robin Williams in this movie looks extremely nasty and creepy. When he should come across as silly and vapid (like MacMurray) he instead looks like one of those Trench-Coat Flashers. The only thing I got out of FLUBBER was the hope that Williams is not a Boy Scout Leader or a Catholic Priest. I went to see this movie with my young child and she urged me to leave even though the special effects were great, and the movie was not bad if you just ignored the scenes where Robin Williams is pretending to act. However, she preferred to go to Toys R Us rather than see the full two hours of FLUBBER. There are so many descriptive words that rhyme with FLUBBER that would be an appropriate sub-title for this movie. If you ever want to appreciate the acting talent of Fred MacMurray, then you should see Robin Williams' FLUBBER first, and then Fred MacMurray's version will seem like THE GODFATHER or CITIZEN KANE.
'Flubber' Flies but Doesn't Soar
posted on 05 Jul 2006IT'S A SIGN of the times that the remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor" has as its title, not a human character, but a special effect: an inanimate object. But that would be selling the object short. Flubber, the substance, has more personality than many Hollywood actors. And if "Flubber," the movie, isn't quite a slam dunk, at least it's a relatively bouncy way to spend an hour and a half.As the movie starts, Prof. Philip Brainard (Robin Williams, wearing Fred MacMurray's brogues and lab coat) is struggling to discover a new energy source. The college where he teaches -- Medfield -- is bankrupt and threatened with closure. His fiancée, college president Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden), is wondering whether, after stranding her at the altar twice, her absent-minded boyfriend will show up for their wedding this time. And just waiting to scoop up Brainard's girl and his invention is the smarmy scientist Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald).It's only a matter of time before something explodes. And soon something does: Prof. Brainard's basement. The forest of glassware is reduced to rubble. The only thing left is a pressure cooker and the green glob it contains. Call it a "propulsive polymer," call it an "elastimer," call it flying rubber. By any name, it's still Flubber. A little Flubber goes a long way. Dropped on the ground it's like a Super Ball on steroids. Apply a thin layer to a golf ball and even Stephen Hawking can tee off like Tiger Woods. Stick it in a car engine and, well, doesn't every movie these days have to have a flying car? But the evil gangster who controls the university, Chester Hoenicker (Raymond Barry), wants to get his greedy hands on the green goo.The movie has been updated since Disney's 1961 original. What was then a faithful canine companion is now a flying robot, Weebo. Voiced by Jodi Benson (who provided the vocal cords for Ariel, the Little Mermaid), Weebo is a jealous little bucket of bolts, eager to ace Sara out of the professor's life. As in the HBO sitcom "Dream On," Weebo punctuates (and comments on) the action by showing scenes from old movies on her video screen. And the Flubber itself is more than a mere blob. It has a puckish personality, showcased by a computer-generated Busby Berkeley-style dance number at the movie's midpoint.Presumably because John Hughes is the co-producer and co-screenwriter (Les Mayfield directed), "Flubber" is filled with the "Home Alone" creator's patented pratfalls. A villain can't simply fall down. He has to look as if he slipped on ball bearings, go horizontal, hang for a split second in the air and then come crashing down flat on his spine. It was fresh when Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern were doing it seven years ago; it looks like overkill now. (The movie is rated PG, which you wouldn't expect, but there is a fair amount of slapstick violence -- bowling balls braining bad guys -- and one brief, giggly scatological scene.) Parents dragged to the mondo-plex will find just enough here to occupy their minds -- Williams is funny, though not the uncorked ball of human Flubber you know he could be. There are contemporary touches -- at one point the professor says, "Sara, if we had wanted to be rich, we wouldn't have become teachers" -- but the movie isn't so hipped-up that it will go over children's heads. On the other hand, there are flat patches where anyone under 8 or so might fidget. Flubber may be more fun than a barrel of monkeys, but "Flubber" is a few monkeys shy of a kid movie masterpiece.
Still somewhat enjoyable as a kids movie but it had more potential really.
posted on 18 May 2006This movie really feels like a wasted opportunity. With so many talent involved, how could this movie turn out to be so disappointing? It probably is due to the messy script that uses too many plot lines that never get fully developed or that work out completely the way as they were suppose to. You can say that the movie feels incomplete. I don't know, were they in a hurry or something to complete this movie? I have a feeling that a month or two more work on the movie- and perhaps its script, would had made this movie a better one.It's still somewhat decent entertainment for the kids. The characters should be enjoyable for them and some of the comical situations are good enough to make them laugh.Robin Williams is always fun to watch in a comedy but however in this case it feels like he's holding back to not completely play a nutty professor. It's perhaps a bit of a disappointing to most. When you know Robin Williams plays the lead role in a comedy you would expect some more fireworks and hilarious situations from him. His talent is wasted, a real missed opportunity for the movie to become a great one. Christopher McDonald plays a typical 'villainoush' Christopher McDonald role and he does it once more really great. Other well known actors in the movie are Marcia Gay Harden, Raymond J. Barry (boy, he's beginning to look really old now), Ted Levine and Clancy Brown. But none of the characters feel really developed well enough in the movie, with the exception of the robotic character Weebo. Of course it's not a very good sign when the best developed- and featured character of the movie is not even an human...Also the use of 'Flubber' is highly below par. From a movie named "Flubber" I expected something more from the green slimy stuff. It however doesn't play a that significant role in the movie and the things that are done with the Flubber are far from original or interesting. The Flubber itself however looks fantastic through some early computer effects. Remember that this movie was released in 1997 when the special effects were of course not as advanced as present day is the case. The effects from this movie look great and really fully convincing. Too bad that it isn't featured very well in the movie.The story is of course predictable from A to Z and the movie has absolutely no surprises in it. It makes "Flubber" a very easily forgettable movie that is far from great. The movie had far more potential really. If only that had made some better choices with its story and perhaps picked a different director...The movie is good and professional looking, so from a technical point of view the movie does really not disappoint. Also the fun musical score by Danny Elfman makes the movie a watchable oneThe kids will probably still enjoy it but still the movie feels like a big waste of some far more and greater potential, which the movie really had.5/10
Super Family Entertainment
posted on 28 Jun 2009Have just watched Flubber for the first time. I expected to be disappointed since I was such a fan of Fred MacMurray's version. Who else could do justice to the role of the absent-minded professor! I was to soon learn that Robin Williams can (and did). It was a delightful movie with no profanity or vulgarity. I can't say there wasn't any violence, but it was humorous violence, and one realized that nobody was really hurt. I felt really good and uplifted after watching and, unfortunately, I can't say that about most any movie nowadays. There were some very funny moments. I particularly liked the little boy who saw things that weren't really there (according to his father, that is). Of course, it was the brilliant comedic acting of Robin Williams that made the movie a success!