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Flubber
Threat advisory: Guarded - General risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Bringing hilarious, off-the-wall comic adventure to audiences world-wide, Robin Williams proves he's the king of laughs in Flubber - Disney's high flying smash hit comedy that stretches all boundaries of the imagination!
Wacky Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) has just invented a revolutionary new compound. It's green. It flies. And it looks like rubber. It's Flubber! And it has the ability to save his financially troubled university as well as his broken engagement to girlfriend Sara. That is until the gooey substance is stolen right from under the nose of his beloved but jealous robot assistant Weebo! Now the professor's got to get the goo - and the girl - back where they belong. Mix one part gravity-defying visual effects, one part turbo-charged hilarity and a touch of Disney magic and you've got the makings of the ultimate comedy treat - Flubber!
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Flubber official movie site
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
A bucket of shite.
Also, that wacky sense of humour that is best defined as American, and should have been quarantined there a long time ago. And one of those Disney professor movies that they used to make for TV, invariably starring the pre-pubescent Kurt Russell.
At this stage I advise that Flubber took $92 million at the USA box office and that I only watched the first 24 minutes. Doubtless there are people out there who think this kind of film is incredibly funny. From my lofty position of arrogant critic, I pity them.
At this point I raise the seemingly obvious question, for those of you who might happen to see it despite this review: how can a man who invents a sentient, anti-gravitic robotic life-form be in need of money?
Security censorship classification
G
Surveillance time
94 minutes (1:34 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
VHS rental: 1 July 1998
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