Review of Flubber (1997) by Trae K — 03 Jan 2015

An enormously disappointing and underwhelming movie. Despite Robin Williams's charming performance as always, this movie as a whole (especially the humor) was rather just ANNOYING, was NOTHING special, and was hardly ANYTHING entertaining at ALL; instead, it had a loony storyline, an over-the-top cast (with Robin Williams and Marcia Gay Harden both being the ONLY good performances that I liked in this movie), unrealistic silliness, and, to my biggest surprise, Flubber not being in this film all that much.

Based on all of the previews that I remembered seeing on old VHS tapes of some Disney animated classics that I STILL have today, it looked like Flubber was going to be among the main focus of the movie, but NOPE.

Sure, Robin's character created him based on a science-experimenting accident, but this movie is mostly about Robin trying to win back his ex-wife and keep his job while Flubber is ONLY on-screen for at least 2-3 SCENES out of the WHOLE movie! UGH.

..I don't really know what to say in response to that. Generally, the way I see it, whenever a certain movie that seems to have such GREAT potential does NOT live up to my expectations at ALL, I sometimes feel CHEATED and the film can LOSE points for that, in my opinion.

There was indeed some decent moments in this movie, and that is why I'm not giving it a lower rating, but overall though, my biggest words to describe my thoughts on this film: DISAPPOINTING UNDERWHELMINGNESS.