Word: jello
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Analyzing Flubber is a futile venture. This is Disney at its mainpulative best. Characters and plausible storylines are stampeded in the onslaught of special effects. Williams stands agape as the Jello-like substance flies, morphs and dances its way all over the screen. The underwritten characters go down before the assualt of the translucent slime...
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...
...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...
...help you as your legs begin to feel like jello and each time you try to come up for breathe, you are met only with unforgiving mouthfuls of water. Then when it seems like it could get no worse, you begin to be dragged down under the surface...
...Another jello-shot, another Wonder Woman fresh from Paradise Island...