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A Balasaur Score of 44 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 24%, Metacritic 38/100. Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,427 1990s comedy movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Disney+.
Synopsis
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 creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.
Ratings
IMDb5.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes24%
Metacritic38/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
2,629 audience votes
Key crew
- Les MayfieldDirector
- John HughesScreenplay
- Bill WalshScreenplay
- Danny ElfmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Robin WilliamsProfessor Philip Brainard
- Marcia Gay HardenDr. Sara Jean Reynolds
- Christopher McDonaldWilson Croft
- Raymond J. BarryChester Hoenicker
- Clancy BrownSmith
- Nancy OlsonSecretary at Ford Motor Company
- Ted LevineWesson
- Wil WheatonBennett Hoenicker
- Edie McClurgMartha George
- Jodi BensonWeebo (voice)
- Leslie StefansonSylvia
- Malcolm BrownsonFather
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Themes
wedding vowsinventorslimeflightmad scientistremakeweddingsecret formulaflubber