The Absent Minded Professor

1961

Action / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi / Sport

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 23 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 9219 9.2K

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Plot summary

Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SimonJack 7 / 10

Fine family Disney comedy with a lot of bounce

Fred MacMurray had a wonderful career with leading roles in all types of films. He had many hit comedies and dramas. He made Westerns, mysteries, action and adventure thrillers, war films and even sang in a couple of movies. Toward the end of his career, he made some family films for Walt Disney and starred in TV series. And, he still did an occasional other film - drama, Western, comedy or other.

"The Absent-Minded Professor" is his second Disney family movie, after the successful 1959 "The Shaggy Dog."

This film was an even bigger box office success. It's a fun family film for kids of all ages. It's a fine comedy with some good trick camera work. A basketball game with the Medfield College team bouncing to the rafters and leaping onto backboards will leave one wondering how Disney filmed those scenes. Besides MacMurray, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Olson, Leon Ames and Elliott Reid add some comedy.

The movie received three Academy Award nominations, for camera work, art and set work and special effects. MacMurray also got a Golden Globe nomination for best actor. That's the only major nomination he ever received. Yet he was a consummate actor in any genre, and one of the best entertainers for several hit comedy films during Hollywood's golden age.

All of MacMurray's films continue to please audiences well into the 21st century. This film is a good one for family time to laugh and smile together. Here are some favorite lines from this film.

Mrs. Chatsworth, "But remember this. The universe is millions and millions and millions of years old. It can wait a little. But girls can't wait."

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 7 / 10

Substance X, we dub thee - Flubber!

The Absent-Minded Professor is directed by Robert Stevenson and adapted to screenplay by Bill Walsh from a story by Samuel W. Taylor. It stars Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olsen, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames and Elliott Reid. Music is by George Bruns and cinematography by Edward Colman.

Out of Disney, we get the kind of wacky family friendly comedy that serves a purpose on a miserable real life day. MacMurray's professor has invented flying - gravity defying - rubber, which he christens Flubber. It can make you bounce up to incredible heights, make the prof's car fly and naturally it draws the attention of evil business man Alonzo Hawk (Wynn). A bunch of nutty scenarios ensue (the basketball match is a pure joy) and the prof has to win back the girl he keeps forgetting to marry (a radiant Olson). It's a creative piece of writing and it saw Disney take note for continued success in live action pictures. 7/10

Reviewed by MartinHafer 8 / 10

Just turn off your brain and enjoy!

I saw "The Absent Minded Professor" when I was a kid and enjoyed it. Now, about 40 years later, I decided to watch it again....and find out if as an adult whether or not I'd enjoy this early Disney live-action film. Well, surprisingly, I did!

The film stars Fred MacMurray as a strange professor who's created a strange anti-gravity substance called 'flubber'. But the problem is no one believes him...even after he easily proves it during a basketball game as well at the school dance. Part of the problem is that everyone is stupid. The other is that the evil Mr. Hawk (Keenan Wynn) is out to discredit him so that he can steal the secrets for himself.

This is clearly a film that works best if you can just turn off your brain and enjoy the picture...something I was able to do. But cynics might thing it a bit silly....I sure didn't. I think it also helped that despite advances over the years in technology, the simple Disney special effects work well...even today. Clever and fun...a nice family film for everyone...except for the cynics and teenagers (I am being redundant here).

By the way, if you enjoy this film, try Ray Milland's "It Happens Every Spring"...a film that no doubt inspired "The Absent Minded Professor".

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