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Flubber (1997)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:4

Rotten:24

Average Rating:3.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Forgetful Professor Phillip Brainard inadvertently creates "flying rubber" in his lab, misses his wedding date repeatedly, and is menaced by bungling goons hired by a jealous rival out to steal his... Forgetful Professor Phillip Brainard inadvertently creates "flying rubber" in his lab, misses his wedding date repeatedly, and is menaced by bungling goons hired by a jealous rival out to steal his lady and his invention. Producer and co-screenwriter John Hughes renders the Disney classic, "The Absent-Minded Professor" for the digital-effects crowd, dusting it with the slapstick hyperbole of his "Home Alone" films and "modern" touches like Brainard's sassy floating personal robot, Weebo. Meanwhile, the flubber itself takes on a life of its own, executing a musical production number. [More]

Starring: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond J. Barry

Starring: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond J. Barry, Clancy Brown, Ted Levine, Wil Wheaton, Edie McClurg, Jodi Benson, Leslie Stefanson, Malcolm Brownson, Benjamin Brock, Dakin Matthews, Zack Zeigler, Samuel Lloyd, Scott Michael Campbell, Bob Sarlatte, Bob Greene, Tom Barlow

Director: Les Mayfield

Director: Les Mayfield
Story: Samuel W. Taylor
Screenwriter: John Hughes, Bill Walsh
Composer: Danny Elfman

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Apr 22, 1998

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  • Flubber
  • Packed with unmistakable Disney magic, FLUBBER explodes on the screen, fusing adventure, eye-popping visual effects, and the gravity-defying comic genius of Robin Williams. The resulting concoction is a hilarious adventure for all ages. Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard (Williams) is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding to fiancee Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden) -- president of financially challenged Medfield College -- for the third time! When Phillip experiments with his own big bang theory, a miraculous elastic good -- Flubber -- emerges, leaving him ecstatic, but unmarried! Phillip and his flying cyber sidekick, Weebo, soon discover that Flubber, applied to anything, enables it to bounce super high and fast. However, many questions remain. Is Flubber good enough to win Sara back, save Medfield from its financial problems, and slip through the hands of the evil financier who is bankrolling the college? FLUBBER slips, slides, giggles, glides, flips, and flies -- the stuff of surefire family entertainment. Now you can bring home Disney's box office hit that's two parts innovation, three parts imagination, and "100% pure fun!" (CNN)
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    Gary Brown

    The new version is a total dud.

    Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 07 2008 09:30 AM

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    Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 06 2005 07:33 PM

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    Carol Cling

    Bring back Fred MacMurray ... a hyper, witless snooze.

    comment Comment | Sep., 30 2005 12:27 PM

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    Scott Weinberg

    Loud, keening awfulness.

    comment Comment | Apr., 03 2005 12:41 AM

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    Blake Davis

    One of Robin Williams's unspeaklably bad filler movies, and maybe one of his worst...and that's saying a lot.

    comment Comment | Apr., 28 2003 10:16 AM

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    John R. McEwen

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    James Sanford

    Almost everyone in the cast seems to realize they're here purely to kill time between special-effects sequences and the tiresome slapsticky antics served up by screenwriter John Hughes.

    Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 23 2002 08:06 PM

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