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Flubber

  • 19971997
  • PGPG
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
91K
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Robin Williams and Scott Martin Gershin in Flubber (1997)
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ComedyFamilySci-Fi
An absent-minded professor discovers "flubber," a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.An absent-minded professor discovers "flubber," a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.An absent-minded professor discovers "flubber," a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.
IMDb RATING
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91K
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    • Les Mayfield
    • Samuel W. Taylor(short story "A Situation of Gravity")
    • John Hughes(screenplay)
    • Bill Walsh(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Robin Williams
    • Marcia Gay Harden
    • Christopher McDonald
    • Les Mayfield
    • Samuel W. Taylor(short story "A Situation of Gravity")
    • John Hughes(screenplay)
    • Bill Walsh(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Robin Williams
    • Marcia Gay Harden
    • Christopher McDonald
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    • 94User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
    • 37Metascore
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    Robin Williams
    Robin Williams
    • Professor Philip Brainard
    Marcia Gay Harden
    Marcia Gay Harden
    • Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
    Christopher McDonald
    Christopher McDonald
    • Wilson Croft
    Ted Levine
    Ted Levine
    • Wesson
    Clancy Brown
    Clancy Brown
    • Smith
    Raymond J. Barry
    Raymond J. Barry
    • Chester Hoenicker
    • (as Raymond Barry)
    Wil Wheaton
    Wil Wheaton
    • Bennett Hoenicker
    Edie McClurg
    Edie McClurg
    • Martha George
    Jodi Benson
    Jodi Benson
    • Weebo
    • (voice)
    Leslie Stefanson
    Leslie Stefanson
    • Sylvia
    Malcolm Brownson
    Malcolm Brownson
    • Father
    Benjamin Brock
    • Window Boy
    Dakin Matthews
    Dakin Matthews
    • Minister
    Zack Zeigler
    • Teenage Boy
    Sam Lloyd
    Sam Lloyd
    • Coach Willy Barker
    • (as Samuel Lloyd)
    Scott Michael Campbell
    Scott Michael Campbell
    • Dale Jepner
    Bob Sarlatte
    • Rutland Coach
    Bob Greene
    Bob Greene
    • Referee
      • Les Mayfield
      • Samuel W. Taylor(short story "A Situation of Gravity")
      • John Hughes(screenplay)
      • Bill Walsh(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      According to Wil Wheaton, in the scenes that he was in with Robin Williams, they would film a take the way it was supposed to be filmed. After that take, Williams would often want to improvise scenes differently than the script, just for fun. Those scenes were not added to the actual film, but there were enough scenes to make an entirely different movie.
    • Goofs
      When the flubber breaks out of Prof. Brainard's back pocket, it makes a hole. As he is falling out the window, there is no hole in his back pocket.
    • Quotes

      Phillip Brainard: I love you with every cell, with every atom. I love you on a subatomic level.

    • Crazy credits
      The opening credits are presented with scientific icons.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      The Flubber Mambo
      By Danny Elfman

    User reviews94

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    5/10
    When your most interesting character is a computer, you've got problems.
    "Flubber" is based upon that old comedy cliché, the absent-minded scientific genius. The central character, Professor Philip Brainard, is a brilliant inventor who has not only invented a robot that will do the housework for him but has also cracked the artificial intelligence problem by producing Weebo, a computer with its own personality that can not only talk to him but also fly. At present he is working on "flubber", a rubbery substance that will allow cars and other objects to fly through the air. For all his intellectual brilliance, however, his private life is so disorganised that he has forgotten to turn up to his own wedding to his attractive sweetheart Sara, not once but three times.

    The plot turns upon Brainard's attempts to produce his flubber, which he sees as a solution to the financial problems confronting the college at which he teaches and of which Sara is the principal. (Like another reviewer, I found myself wondering why he didn't just try marketing his domestic robot or his talking computer, inventions which I thought would have had just as much commercial potential). Along the way, he has to fight off Wilson, the handsome but too smooth principal of another college who is his rival for Sara's affections, and a corrupt businessman who wants to use the flubber for his own selfish ends.

    The film was clearly designed as a comedy for children, and works quite well as such, aided by a good deal of slapstick humour, mostly involving Robin Williams as Brainard. Unlike some children's films, however, such as the "Harry Potter" series, this one does not have much in it to keep adults entertained. Williams is clearly a talented comedian, but strangely enough, with a few exceptions such as "Mrs Doubtfire", he has been most successful in films with a serious purpose like "Dead Poets Society" or "Good Morning Vietnam", although even in these he often manages to find a use for his comic talents. In many of his comedies his talents just seem wasted. "Club Paradise" is an example, and "Flubber" is another. All the other characters, with one exception, just seem like stock figures with little individuality about them.

    The one exception is Weebo the computer. The British computer pioneer Alan Turing devised what has since become known as the "Turing Test" for deciding whether a machine can be said to be intelligent. A human judge engages in a conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot tell which is which, the machine is said to pass the test. Unfortunately, if the human involved were one of those in this film, Weebo would fail the test. She (Weebo has a female voice and personality) is smart, funny, sensitive and lovable, much more so than anyone else in the film, so it would be easy to tell them apart. And when your most interesting character is an electronic rather than a flesh-and-blood one, your film has got problems. 5/10
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    • Release date
      • November 26, 1997 (United States)
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      • Stockton, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Walt Disney Pictures
      • Great Oaks Entertainment
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    • 1 hour 33 minutes
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