The Absent Minded Professor

G

1961

1 hr. 37 min.

Kids & Family

Comedy

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83%

23 Reviews

Tomatometer

62%

5,000+ Ratings

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Disney comedy about a professor who invents a revolutionary flying rubber, which he dubs "flubber". Not only does the professor's Model T Ford fly through the air with the greatest of ease, but his secret weapon helps the college basketball team to victory, thanks to flubber-enhanced boots, but while his long-suffering girlfriend tries to win the professor's heart, crooks are trying to steal his formula.

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Mark m

Extremely dated, and just not thar funny. Highly unlikely to keep the attention of, let alone entertain children, it's target audience.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/16/24

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Kim T

Fun, zany and never a dull moment.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/22/23

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Russell H

Ages well for a black and white comedy. Never realized this was where flubber originated.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/19/23

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Jeffrey M

The Absent minded Professor was an amazing movie. I watched it a long time ago and it was a really good movie. I never really watched the full thing but I remember I likes it. I remember it was a bit boring p, but that's okay. What a good movie.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/11/23

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Liam D

A charming whimsical Disney Classic with effects that surprisingly hold up

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/15/22

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Audience Member

A good movie overall with some unique ideas. Fred MacMurray plays the titular character very well. As a science minded person, I was confused by the properties of flubber and then questioned the uses of it during the move. I would have gone straight for the perpetual motion machine and energy production instead of helping the local basketball team win. Though it was interesting to see the difference between a 1960's game and what we do today. For the time the special effects were alright, you could easily tell that the car wasn't really flying. It is a fun movie worth checking out.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Robert Stevenson

Director

Fred MacMurray

Prof. Ned Brainard

Nancy Olson

Betsy Carlisle

Keenan Wynn

Alonzo P. Hawk

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Ed Wynn

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Margaret Hinxman

Sight & Sound

The combination of that schoolboy sense of fun, which is Disney's stock in trade, and a sharper sense of the ridiculous is happily demonstrated in The Absent-Minded Professor.

Feb 11, 2020

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TIME Magazine

Flubber provides fuel for a very funny piece of hyperbolic humor in the grand American tradition of Paul Bunyan, and Director Robert Stevenson and Scriptwriter Bill Walsh get plenty of bounce out of every ounce.

Mar 9, 2009

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Variety Staff

Variety

MacMurray is ideally cast as the car-hopping prof, and plays the role with warmth and gusto.

Jun 4, 2007

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Isabel Quigly

The Spectator

An amiable joke that I was sorry I hadn't brought a child to see.

Jan 29, 2019

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Scott G. Mignola

Common Sense Media

Family entertainment at its best.

Rated: 5/5

Jan 2, 2011

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TV Guide

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.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 4, 2007

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Synopsis

Disney comedy about a professor who invents a revolutionary flying rubber, which he dubs "flubber". Not only does the professor's Model T Ford fly through the air with the greatest of ease, but his secret weapon helps the college basketball team to victory, thanks to flubber-enhanced boots, but while his long-suffering girlfriend tries to win the professor's heart, crooks are trying to steal his formula.

Director: Robert Stevenson
Screenwriter: Bill Walsh
Production Co: Walt Disney Productions
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014

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