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Flubber (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 4  Rotten:24 Average Rating: 3.6/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

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 lady and his invention. Producer and co-screenwriter John Hughes renders the Disney... 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]

Genre: Comedies

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

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

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 22, 1998

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Single Side - Single Layer
  • Letterboxed - 1.85:1

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Surround - French
  • Dolby Surround - Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Original Theatrical Trailer

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

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The new version is a total dud.

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2/5

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

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Carol Cling
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Emanuel Levy
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Loud, keening awfulness.

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04/03/05
Scott Weinberg
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John Esther
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05/20/03
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly
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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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04/28/03
Blake Davis
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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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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James Sanford
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Edward Guthmann
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06/05/02
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Just the right mix of slapstick and high tech wizardry.

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03/01/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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