Word: goos
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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...
...third wedding, Phillip discovers "flubber" (flying rubber) and leaves his fiance at the altar once again. The film has the formula villain in Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald) who not only wants to steal Brainard's goo, but also to capture the heart of his fiance. The predictable storyline is set up--Phillip must get back his girl, keep his hands on the gooey slime, and take on the villainous Croft...
...very unimportant, but the goo soon takes over--with a vengeance. The magical morphing jello (created by the wizardry of Industrial Light & Magic) is not given any inherent limits. That's the fun of Flubber --the green blob can do anything. Watch it bounce from wall to wall in a hyperkenetic frenzy. Watch it divide into thousands of little splotches and dash around the room. Watch it make cars fly, watch it help people leap the length of basketball courts, watch it unmercifully assault the villains, watch it morph into all kinds of shapes--and best of all, watch...
...Eight. Rectum? Never saw him. Thank you. Thank you for playing. It's Fluffer. Fluffer? What movie is that? That would be the adult movie version. Fluffer--watch out. May the goo be with...
...many layers of the blue shield and those who profit by it (like a man who runs a service of call girls cut to resemble movie starlets). Surprises and not so teensy-weensy ethical decisions are sprinkled throughout as we wonder whether Exley will fall into the warm goo of complicity with the rest...