Flubber . Tucson Weekly . 12-08-97

Flubber

DIRECTED BY: Les Mayfield

REVIEWED: 12-08-97

In this remake of The Absent Minded Professor, Robin Williams plays the Fred MacMurray role not just absent-humoredly, but with that saccharine vocal lilt he always uses in kids' movies--the one that makes him sound like he's trying to reassure a baby. The flubber itself is anthropomorphized to the point where it becomes a Gummi human, thus saving us the tedious task of imagining its personality ourselves. Then there's Weebo, an intelligent flying robot/secretary whose crush on Williams is, to be honest, rather sick. Basically, everything in Flubber is blibber-blubber. Screenwriter John Hughes and his team of corporate filmmakers have turned the once-charming Disney story into an effects-dominated rehash that's lost nearly all of its bounce.

--Woodruff

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