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Feel Good Humorous Offbeat
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Goofy Hero Mad Scientist Nothing Goes Right Experiment Gone Awry Disorder Fall in Love Inventions and Discoveries Sport Team more...
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Comedy Family Hollywood Tone
Time/Period:
90s
Place:
University
Audience:
Family Outing Kids Teens
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Irreverent Humor
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Remake
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Flubber, 1997

Starring: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald

Directed by: Les Mayfield

Written by: John Hughes

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 93 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Rating:4.7

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Flubber can be described as feel good, humorous, and offbeat. The plot revolves around a mad scientist, a goofy hero, and an experiment gone awry. Its comic aspect comes from irreverent humor. Flubber's main genres are comedy and family. In terms of style, it has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is not serious. Flubber is set, at least in part, at a university. It takes place in the 1990s. Visually, it is computer animated. Flubber is a remake. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster and an award winner. It is well suited for kids, a family outing, and teens.

Summary of Flubber

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.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	16 November 1997
Runtime:	93 min

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Robin Williams

as Professor Philip Brainard

Marcia Gay Harden

as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds

Christopher McDonald

as Wilson Croft

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Los Angeles Times

Director Les Mayfield ("Miracle on 34th Street") has his moments, of course, but what ultimately was needed in the case of Flubber was a movie with more bounce and less talk. Full Review

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by: John Anderson

TV Guide

Too bad the film isn't nearly as elastic as the miraculous green goo: It can barely contain all the flubber-induced chaos and still make sense, but the filmmakers don't quit till they've run out of funny things for flubber to do. Full Review

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by: Ken Fox

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