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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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Gary Brown

The new version is a total dud.

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Carol Cling

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

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Emanuel Levy

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Scott Weinberg

Loud, keening awfulness.

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Pasadena Weekly

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Susan Tavernetti

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Palo Alto Weekly

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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.

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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.

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Edward Guthmann

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