An absent-minded professor discovers “flubber,” a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.
While trying to be a remake of The Absent Minded Professor, it falls off very fast. He’s not absent-minded, he’s got Alzheimer, forgetting simple stuff that no person should forget under normal absent-minded circumstances. The movie is predictable, even if you haven’t seen the original, and the only thing that makes it watchable is the stellar performance of Robin Williams, just as always, but even him, nor the flubber can make this movie fly. The overly-attached annoying robot Weebo is absolutely awful, the decision of making the Flubber sentient was a huge mistake and the villain reveals his intentions from the first minute he appears on the screen. I know it’s supposed to be a kids movie, but it’s too bad for kids and too silly for grownups. However, it still gets three popcorns because Robin Williams is absolutely delicious in his performance, but not even he could save this disaster. I think this is the moment when Hollywood started to go downhill with all the remakes.
