Word: flubber
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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...
...plays Professor Phillip Brainard, a brilliant but easily distracted college professor. In fact, Brainard is so forgetful that he seems almost impaired: he has twice left his fiancee (Marcia Gay Harden) stranded at the altar because he neglected the wedding. The scenario is a difficult one to swallow, but Flubber tries its hardest to create an alternative reality. Brainard doesn't mean any harm in his absent-mindedness--he's simply too darn busy working on his green blob...
...Flubber, what would you do with it? A: Besides a condom...
...many times did someone walk up to you on set and say, "Flubber? I hardly even know...
...point during shooting did you think, "Oh, man, Flubber. How embarrassing...