The Absent-Minded Professor (Full Screen Colorized)
Description:
Even computer enhanced with unnecessary color, the original, 1961 version of this film is bound to be a hundred times funnier than the bland remake, Flubber. Fred MacMurray is charming as the eccentric college professor who discovers a gooey substance with sustainable energy. Everything about this movie clicks in a way Flubber didn't, particularly the effort by director Robert Stevenson (a Disney favorite who made Mary Poppins, That Darn Cat, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and many other hits for the studio) to create comic tension between MacMurray's gentlemanly performance and the slapstick set pieces. The famous basketball scene (in which some of the players don't realize they have flubber on the soles of their shoes) is perfectly choreographed and exceptionally funny for kids. --Tom Keogh
Product Details:
Actors:
Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames
Director:
Robert Stevenson
Format:
Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language:
English
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
Disney Home Video
Run Time:
92 minutes
DVD Release Date:
January 14, 2003
Average Customer Rating:
based on 49 reviews
Customer Reviews:
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Fun and Disney Safe FeelingJul 01, 2010 The movie is done in black and white and has a safe disney feel to it. It is not done with tons of animation or songs. It is neat that it takes science and makes something fun and imaginitive happen. The flying car is neat yet it is not as an involved story line as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is an older film and has the safe forgetful professor cast as Fred McMurray. He is not comic like Robin Williams yet he is engrossed with his chemistry. He is trying to make it to his wedding on time over and over again, and finally after he invents flubber, a different kind of energy, he ties the knot. It is fun to see them play basketball and jump so high. I love the car scenes and think that would be such a fun thing to do if imagination could come true. I liked the safe cozy feel of the film and its Disney happy that comes with it. It is a fun film that may appeal to the younger crowd cus of its funny flubberesque antics. The color is not there but it can still be a film for youngsters to enjoy. I also liked the cool chemistry lab set with all the different gadgets and bubbling potions. Inventing things seems pretty cool as well.
DISNEY FARCE MAKE GOOD FAMILY FILMJan 27, 2010 .....Fred MacMurray is great as the bumbling College Professor who stumbles upon a remarkble substance, Flubby, that creates more energy than it uses ...
.....Nancy Olsen, of Sunset Boulevard fame, holds up her end as the long suffering girlfriend who keeps getting left at the altar and Keenan Wynn turns in a fine performance as the villanious Alonzo Hawk ...
.....All in all the movie is timeless and can be enjoyed by the entire family.
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FantasticNov 17, 2009 The quality of the DVD was great. Received my shipment promptly, and everything came packaged with bubblewrap. I have seen this movie when I was a young boy and I loved it. Seeing it again as an adult brought back wonderful memmories.
Monte la dessusApr 02, 2009 It was a pleasure to see again this very old film that I loved when I was a child !
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Anyone Who Doesn't Like It Must Have Flubber For BrainsJan 15, 2009 I really like Fred MacMurray. Whenever I see him in a film, I think, yup, it's Fred MacMurray. So naturally when I saw this good-natured classic on DVD, I had that register concept in my head. The Absent Minded Professor---called that because its central character is a professor who is absent minded---is the sort of Disney flick you watch settled back on the couch with a glass of root beer, and you relax while your imagination shifts to auto-pilot. Movies like this show you don't need nudity, cussing, sex, drugs, alcohol, diversity, controversy, a wisecracking sidekick, cute kids, terrorists, computer animation, explosions, gay jokes or color film to tell an endearing story. Nah, with The Absent Minded Professor, you just look on, and feel entertained. I bet they show this movie twice monthly at the multiplex in Heaven. Ah, why can't all professors be like you, Fred MacMurray?
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