Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34428 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-09-07
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Disney couldn't resist the temptation to remake 1961's popular comedy The Absent Minded Professor, so they cast Robin Williams as Professor Philip Brainard (a role vaguely related to the character originated by Fred MacMurray), and the result is a comedy that, frankly, doesn't fully deserve its modest success. It's admittedly clever to a point, and certainly the digitally flubberised special effects provide the kind of movie magic that's entertaining for children and adults alike. The professor can't even remember his own wedding day (much to the chagrin of his fiancée, played by Marcia Gay Harden), and now his academic rival (Christopher McDonald) is trying to steal his latest and purely accidental invention-flying rubber, or ... flubber. The green goo magnifies energy and can be used as an amazing source of power, but in the hands of screenwriter John Hughes it becomes just another excuse to recycle a lot of Home Alone-style slapstick humour involving a pair of bumbling would-be flubber thieves. There's also a floating robot named Weebo and some catchy music by Danny Elfman to accompany dancing globs of flubber, but the story's too thin to add up to anything special. Lightweight fun, but, given the title, it lacks a certain bounce. Of course, that didn't stop Disney's marketing wizards from turning it into a home video hit. --Jeff Shannon

Amazon.co.uk Review
Disney couldn't resist the temptation to remake 1961's popular comedy The Absent Minded Professor, so they cast Robin Williams as Professor Philip Brainard (a role vaguely related to the character originated by Fred MacMurray), and the result is a comedy that, frankly, doesn't fully deserve its modest success. It's admittedly clever to a point, and certainly the digitally "flubberized" special effects provide the kind of movie magic that's entertaining for kids and parents alike. The professor can't even remember his own wedding day (much to the chagrin of his fiancée, played by Marcia Gay Harden), and now his academic rival (Christopher McDonald) is trying to steal his latest and purely accidental invention--flying rubber, or ... Flubber. The green goo magnifies energy and can be used as an amazing source of power, but in the hands of screenwriter John Hughes it becomes just another excuse to recycle a lot of Home Alone-style slapstick humor involving a pair of bumbling would-be flubber thieves. There's also a floating robot named Weebo and some catchy music by Danny Elfman to accompany dancing globs of flubber, but the story's too thin to add up to anything special. Lightweight fun, but, given the title, it lacks a certain bounce. Of course, that didn't stop Disney's marketing wizards from turning it into a home-video hit.

Synopsis
Professor Brainard continuously misses his own wedding to fiancee Sarah and she gives him one last chance. Unfortunately he blows this too but this time he has been busy inventing Flubber - a substance that appears to generate its own energy...

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable childrens movie about a mischevious, bouncy blob!
Robin Williams plays a good "mad professor" in this easy-to-watch childrens movie. Williams is trying to create a new substance that will power things without the need for electricity, all the while his university is struggling to stay open due to lack of money. Needless to say, Williams succeeds and the following antics cause untold problems and chaos ensues.

This is a good film and enjoyable by all ages. Highly reccommended

Family fun
This 1990s Robin Williams vehicle sees the wacky comic play a bonkers inventor who stumbles across the titular substance which has amazing energy properties. Upsetting his fiancé, annoying the father of one of his students who seeks to intimidate teachers into passing his dim-witted son through college, and generally causing mayhem, Flubber soon takes on a life of its own with the hapless inventor attempting to harness its power to help save his ailing university.

Williams is typically cheesy but this is what it sets out to be - a family friendly, colourful and mindless movie that is perfect for a wet day in the school holidays.

Robin Williams goes to a new low??
robin williams career started off brilliantly.Dead Poets society, Good Morning Vietnam, Good will hunting, Aladdin and then flubber...oh dear.A scientist that creates something like rubber...but its alive,green and dances..ummm.so he names it flubber.then arises some attempted comical pieces involving him putting the flubber on the bottom of his shoes to bounce high and putting it in his car to make it fly...good god robin what have we created.There is terible acting all the way through though robin tries his best it isnt good enough to save this atrocisty.bad scripting, a terrible plot and a pooor and predictable film which will make you want to go insane.dont bother with it.just run.get aladdin instead.get a book instead.better still watch paint dry.just dont get it!!!