Son Of Flubber

Very Disapointing DVD Release
If you loved Disney's "The Absent Minded Professor," than you will love "Son Of Flubber." While this sequel isn't better than the first, it is a good companion to it. I have found the kids under age 9 get bored with this movie, probably because it is in black and white. This film follows the same safe formula used in the first film, but there is something fresh and new about it that sets it apart from it's predecessor. The storyline is that Professor Branard's invention of Flubber has been confiscated by the government, leaving him and his wife pennyless. By using Flubber gas, he is able to make a gun that can control the weather, however it dosen't work according to plan. After a fight, his wife leaves him. Without funding, Medfield College will have to shut down. So when his invention gets him into trounle with the law, he tries to save the college and his marriage by helping the football team win their last game.

This DVD release is very disapointing. Disney...

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While Son of Flubber hasn't achieved the same status as a classic that it's predecessor has, it's got the same charm and lighthearted fun.
Fred MacMurray and the rest of the cast return and deliver. The characters have continued to grow, and the actors are very comfortable and convincing in them.
Professor Ned Brainard captures your sympathies even as you laugh your way through his struggles.
The script for this movie lives up to the original, and doesn't fail to entertain.

"Ya might call it Dry Rain."
Quick, what is the only Disney movie in which you will hear the phrase "bolluxed up?" haw haw Never saw that one coming.

Flubber becomes a victim of "national security" and our hero Ned Brainerd (MacMurray) returns home empty handed from our nation's capital to find creditors threatening to cancel his newspaper subscription, predators threatening to bulldoze Medfield College, the IRS threatening to ruin his life, and his wife (Nancy Olsen) looking like a million bucks in her new mink coat while holding a check for same for something poor Ned doesnt own anymore and cant sell so that we can all enjoy the wonders of Flubberoleum and can safely drop our children on the floor without the fear of being locked up by Social Services. A very frustrating start to the terrific sequel to Absent Minded Professor, all adding to the frenection of MacMurray, who must now invent something entirely new so that he can save Medfield, his home, and his marriage from the slimey advances of Prof...

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