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...Disney's The Swamp Fox. Do you remember the theme song...
...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...
...part of an engineered package: expect little containers of green slime and robotic Weebo's under every Christmas tree this year. "The movie's forgettable," even Disney seems to admit, "so why not buy a toy to help you remember...