Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.
Acting
Robin Williams at peak manic professor energy
Visual Effects
That basketball scene still holds up stupidly well
Practical Effects
Weebo's physical design is weirdly charming
Director
Les Mayfield
Robin Williams
Professor Philip Brainard
Marcia Gay Harden
Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
Christopher McDonald
Wilson Croft
Raymond J. Barry
Chester Hoenicker
Clancy Brown
Smith
Nancy Olson
Secretary at Ford Motor Company
Ted Levine
Wesson
Wil Wheaton
Bennett Hoenicker
Edie McClurg
Martha George
Jodi Benson
Weebo (voice)
Leslie Stefanson
Sylvia
Dakin Matthews
Minister
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a remake of 1961's The Absent-Minded Professor with Fred MacMurray, itself based on Samuel W. Taylor's short story.
The flubber was originally planned to be CGI entirely, but they used practical bouncing balls on wires for most scenes because early 90s CGI couldn't handle the physics.
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