Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

A Movie a day in the Month of May
Day 7 pick

Disney+ eh? What can you do but be tempted by the movies you used to love or have a vague notion of liking years back.

Flubber was the latter and as I couldn’t seem to recall anything about this movie other than Robin Williams and a lime green blob, I thought; why not.

Instead, I ended up on the line of ‘why did I do that to myself’. This movie is awful. Seriously, it’s so bad and I can’t even fathom how I enjoyed it growing up.

This movie is about an absentminded professor who, for some reason, has found a woman who loves him enough to allow him to stand her up at the alter. Not once, and not twice (and in some ways not even three times). Also, the robot he built, who acts like a petulant teenager is in love with him. Strange doesn’t even begin to describe.

Sure there was a point buried amongst all the above nonsense, but it was such a vague and ease plot that it was a bore. The actual ‘substance’ of Flubber itself is featured so little in this movie which I found interesting. The comedy – which I suppose is the leg this movie is supposed to be standing on – is on the cheap slapstick side. Granted I’ve never found slapstick particularly humorous, but it was just another notch on the long list of ‘nos’ from Flubber.

What I concluded from this movie is that I should take care before wandering down memory alley on my next peruse through Disney+. I’d hate to rob my childhood of anything else.

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