DISNEY’S FLUBBER WAS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 26TH 1997
DISNEY’S 1997 LIVE ACTION FLUBBER IS ABOUT PROFESSOR PHILLIP BRAINARD ( ROBIN WILLAMS) AN ABSENT MIINDED PROFESSOR WORKS WITH HIS ROBOT ASSISTENT WEEBLO ( JODY BENSON) trying to create a substance that’s a new source of energy and that will save Medfield Carlisle, is the dean. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon
of his third wedding, Brainard accidentally creates Flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air. It behaves like rubber, so he calls it Flubber (Flying Rubber). When he misses the third wedding, he tries to explain it to Sara by demonstrating Flubber, but he falls out a window and Sara angrily breaks up with him and begins seeing Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald), a professor from another college and the remake’s version of Alonzo Hawk.
Meanwhile, Brainard creates a flying car to win Sara back and tries to figure out ways to control the Flubber. He comes up with an idea to use the Flubber to help the Medfield basketball team win the championship, which they do, but he doesn’t win Sara’s heart back. Back at the house, he explains to Weebo that he’s absent-minded because he’s in love with Sara and Weebo records him saying it. After this, he gives up, admitting that Sara deserves someone better than him. Weebo goes to Sara’s house to prove it to her. Brainard then wakes up to see her standing above him and she kisses him.
At the same time, a rich and corrupt businessman named Chester Hoenicker (Raymond J. Barry) wants Philip to pass his failing son Bennett (Wil Wheaton), but he soon takes an interest in Flubber after hearing about it from his flunkies Smith (Clancy Brown) and Wesson (Ted Levine). Smith and Wesson steal the Flubber and destroy Weebo in the process. Brainard and Sara get the Flubber back in a battle.
At last, Flubber is finally free, by being used as a silly weapon to defeat Wilson’s henchmen. But then, Flubber is accidentally swallowed by Wilson, making him suffer from “inside” his body to the outside, making him “dancing”, being ticklish, laughing, and moving around. Inside him, Flubber makes a short “body controlling awkward dancing/ticklish sensation” “journey”, through his digestive system, which makes him suffer and laugh every uncontrollably. Once Flubber wants to get out of his system, Wilson farts loudly and Flubber gets out of his body (like a bullet), laughing, and flying away. After that, Wilson looks at the others (Doctor and Sara) and faints, exhausted, half-dead. Brainard and Sara, who are shocked to see the effect of swallowing Flubber,
go out of the room, free and victorious.
Philip saves Medfield College from closure with Flubber. Philip and Sara finally get married through a video screen (like Skype) while Brainard makes an experiment and blows the house out. Once they got married, the “Just Married-Couple” flies away with the autocar, Flubber and with Weebo’s daughter, Weebette, in the trunk.
Cast
ROBIN WILLAMS
- Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
- Christopher McDonald as Wilson Croft
- Raymond J. Barry as Chester Hoenicker
- Clancy Brown as Smith
- Ted Levine as Wesson
- Wil Wheaton as Bennett Hoenicker
- Edie McClurg as Martha George
- Leslie Stefanson as Sylvia
- Malcolm Brownson as Father
- Benjamin Brock as Window Boy
- Dakin Matthews as Minister
- Zack Zeigler as Teenage Boy
- Sam Lloyd as Coach Willy Barker
- Scott Michael Campbell as Dale Jepner
- Bob Sarlatte as Rutland Coach
- Bob Greene as Referee
- Tom Barlow as Medfield Basketball Player
Voice cast
- Scott Martin Gershin as Flubber
- Jodi Benson as Weebo
- Julie Morrison as Weebette
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