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Great Oaks Entertainment
Walt Disney Pictures
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Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.
CinemaSerf
Jan 2, 2024 · via TMDB
It's kind of fitting as I decided to decline Disney's kind invitation to pay 33% more for my Disney+ that this is the last of their films that I watched. It sums up the mediocrity of this once innovative source of vibrant and creative animation - and presents us with a derivative version of a film that Jerry Lewis might have made in the 1960s if he'd owned "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" - and no, "Flubber" isn't even a dolphin! It all relies on the rather annoying performance of Robin Williams in the role of the madcap scientist "Prof. Brainard" who is determined to save his college from closure by coming up with a miracle invention. His woes don't just stop there, though. His fiancée "Sara" (Marcia Gay Harden) might just be seeing another man! Anyway, what he does manage to create is the eponymous, extremely independently elastic, green gunge that can be everything from load bearing to ultra-stretchy. Needless to say, this attracts the attention of rivals and so he must now focus on a two pronged offensive to protect his sludge and keep his gal. There's only so much the talented Williams can do here before the whole thing just sinks into it's own green goo. The script is borderline puerile and even a flying car can't really rescue this from a rather disappointing predictability. At least it's short and sweet, but really hasn't an original bone in it's flexi-body!
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Professor Philip Brainard
Marcia Gay Harden
Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
Christopher McDonald
Wilson Croft
Raymond J. Barry
Chester Hoenicker
Clancy Brown
Smith
Nancy Olson
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Ted Levine
Wesson
Wil Wheaton
Bennett Hoenicker
Edie McClurg
Martha George
Jodi Benson
Weebo (voice)
Leslie Stefanson
Sylvia
Dakin Matthews
Minister
Sam Lloyd
Coach Willy Barker
Scott Martin Gershin
Flubber (voice)
Julie Morrison
Weebette (voice)
Scott Michael Campbell
Dale Jepner
Kyle Cooper
Title Designer
Dean Cundey
Director of Photography
April Ferry
Costume Design
Freddie Hice
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Troy Brown
Stunt Double
Troy Robinson
Stunt Double
Heather Burton-Gibson
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Steve Kelso
Stunts
Troy Gilbert
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Les Mayfield
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Barbara Harris
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Nancy Foy
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Michael Polaire
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John Hughes
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