The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
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Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 15 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: A distracted professor invents an anti-gravity goo called Flubber that makes anything it's applied to lighter-than-air, including the family flivver and the balls at the school's basketball game. MacMurray couldn't be better in patented Disney fare. Sequel is Son of Flubber. Academy... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames
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This is a zanily inventive piece of work, with delightful special effects, which set the style for a long series of live-action Disney films.
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06/04/07
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MacMurray is ideally cast as the car-hopping prof, and plays the role with warmth and gusto.
06/04/07
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Disney produces a goofy lightweight Mack Sennett-like family comedy fantasy film that's joyfully directed by Robert Stevenson.
02/11/07
The original's simple humor looks remarkably tired compared with the story's energetic and much more inventive remake.
08/01/01
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