Son of Flubber

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Blu B @RT43513976 4 hrs ago It's pretty silly and a big step down from the previous movie. It's alright enough I guess but it really is like part romcom, part sequel, part sports movie, and part Sci-Fi inventing the weather cloud thing. The ending football game is stupid, the special effects are ok enough I guess but look silly and dated. Than it becomes a courtroom drama at the end from a sports movie. Again the key here is the plot is ALL OVER the place here. The slapstick is ok I guess. It's very lighthearted and it isn't terribly jumpy but the plot is all over the place so much so it feels like several different films. The actual core plot of him trying to save the college and Flubber feels completely forgotten about for all the other stuff. The scenes with his kids feel pointless as well. Again it makes sense but it's not really funny at all because it just is flat slapstick and it doesn't take anything seriously like the football game which is so dumb. I'd say skip it. MacMurray isn't bad here for what it See more

Robert P @Superbad Oct 12, 2026 Son of Flubber is a *3* star Movie! See more

Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 20, 2025 Funny in 1 hour and 40 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more

Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 May 22, 2025 Adding onto the already fun Absent minded professor with more rightful campy hijinks. It’s a better sequel that has the Disney charm in spades See more

steve d @RT35616104 Jan 8, 2023 Train wreck of a sequel with no new ideas. See more

r 9 @RT00952237 Jun 30, 2020 A poor follow-up to 'The Absent-Minded Professor'. 'Son of Flubber' is inferior in every department. I praise the original for its amusing humour, but this film manages to lose it almost entirely. There are a few smirk-worthy moments, but it's mostly stale. A large reason for that is the lacklustre plot, which isn't ever interesting. The Flubber itself is rarely used, as they instead focus of its "gas". The conclusion is, like with the 1961 film, rather dull and adds little. Fred MacMurray, to his credit, is again good in the role of Prof. Brainard. Nancy Olson (Betsy) and Keenan Wynn (Alonzo) are both involved again, while Tommy Kirk (Biff) is shoehorned into a bigger part; not sure why. Speaking of forced characters, James Westerfield and Forrest Lewis again appear in the roles of officers Hanson & Kelly; they were, in my opinion, only funny in 'The Shaggy Dog', which these films evidently share the same universe with. Surely this sequel needed to be bigger and grander than the earlier film? Instead it practically follows the same path without setting the world alight. Still, I'm intrigued to see where the story goes for the Disney Channel produced sequels - though I'll have to wait to view, given they oddly aren't on the studio's streaming service or anywhere else. Overall, this isn't worthy of a watch. See more

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