Review of Flubber (1997) by Hirons, C — 07 Jun 2009

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president.

He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard accidentally creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air. It behaves like rubber, so he calls it flubber (Flying Flubber).

When he misses the third wedding, he tries to explain it to Sara by demonstrating flubber, but he falls out the window and Sara breaks up with him and starts seeing Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald), a professor from another college.

Meanwhile, Phillip creates a flying car to win Sara back and tries to figure out ways to control the flubber. He then gets an idea to use the flubber to help the Medfield basketball team win the championship, which they did, but he didn'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 and goes to Sara's house to show her it. Philip then wakes up to see Sara on top of him and she kisses him.

Croft's minions steal the flubber and destroy Weebo. Brainard and Sara get the flubber back in a flubberistic battle and the film ends with Sara and Phillip flying away in the car with Weebo's daughter in tow.

Flubber performed well at the box office. It made $92,977,226 in the United States and a total of $85 million in other countries for a grand total of $177,977,226 internationally.