Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then how on earth can the master of comedy be upstaged by slimy green goo? Yes, yes, it sounds ridiculous, but that's exactly the case in Disney's Flubber, an update of The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). It is Williams this time who stands agape as the Jello-like "flubber" flies, morphs, and dances its way all over the screen. The underwritten characters cannot survive the assault of the translucent slime. Indeed, special effects save the movie--the glorious jello is the only thing in Flubber that makes any type of impression...
...green glob dances. In one of the more fantastic scenes in recent Disney films, the filmmakers decide to let loose. The story screeches to a halt, the characters are silenced, and flubber performs the mambo. Pulsating to Danny Elfman's spectacular score, the dozens of energetic lumps of goo twist and turn around the room. They organize themselves in pairs, in kick lines, in symmetric circles. It's hilarious and wondrous to behold. The dazzling scene is a classic one--it almost makes the whole movie worthwhile...
...green slime is imbued with so much creative energy that one wonders why the characters are so universally dull. One possible explanation may place blame on Disney, which continues to recycle its old hits as guaranteed blockbusters. (Next year, expect retreads of My Favorite Martian and The Parent Trap.) Moreover, Disney's live-action films all seem to be reduced to slapstick violence between a paper-cut villain and a cheesy hero. And yet, even in last year's dreadful remake of 101 Dalmations, Glenn Close found room to make Cruella De Vil somewhat entertaining...
...analyzing Flubber in itself is a futile venture. This is Disney product at its manipulative best. Characters and plausible storylines are stampeded in the onslaught of special effects...
Those who believe that Disney is the synonym for animated films have not met Visiting Lecturer in Animation Caroline Leaf...