Flubber Details

Continuing Hollywood's obsession with souping-up the hit comedies of the past with today's sophisticated special effects, this is a smart update of 1961's The Absent-Minded Professor. Robin Williams plays Philip Brainard, a scientist who becomes so immersed in creating a new energy source that he once again misses his own wedding. But this time he has an excuse, if only his long-suffering fiancée will listen, because he has invented Flubber — a substance like rubber that generates its own energy, wreaking havoc everywhere it goes. In fact it gives inanimate objects a life of their own, resulting in Home Alone-style attacks on baddies by everything from toy robots to bowling balls. Kids will lap it up.

"...Technological advances in filmmaking make these flying scenes pleasant and even allow the flubber a Busby Berkeley dance routine..."