I feel like a good chunk of this movie would've been a lot better if instead of missing the wedding three times, it was about him getting the courage to propose to Sarah while also dealing the obvious bad guy, as well as trying to save the college. Yes it would've been a bit more predictable, but it would've at least made Phillip more likable.
John Huges was entirely to blame for Flubber's horrible writing. The other guy was dead. Bill Walsh was the writer of the The Absent Minded Professor, the film Flubber was based on. Walsh had died 19 years before Flubber was released and long before the film was in production.
Yeah, parts of Bill's script were unchanged from the original. That's why he received the posthumous co-writing credit. Not to mention that Bill also co-wrote the screenplay for Mary Poppins.
Why would someone with a history of getting absorbed in his work *do some of that work the morning before his wedding anyway?* At that point he should have been accompanied by one of the wedding staff, or the limo driver, or even a nanny. The fact it happened a second time (let alone a third) means we can't really blame just him anymore. That's itching into "mental disorder, unfit to live independently, why aren't we fucking assigning people to watch him" territory.
Sad thing is, it's not entirely a joke. One of the scientists on the Manhattan Project caused a major security alert because he had a thought while sitting at a stop sign on the way to work and sat there to think about it. Didn't realise anything was wrong until a cop knocked on his window six hours later. Of course, in real life he lost his license and the government assigned him a driver.
@@Lockpickingblacksmith he sat at a fucking stop sign for 6hours dazing into space? Did he have ADHD cause that sounds like something my dumb af ADHD habits would do...
@@TheRelevantusername I don't know, most really, really smart people have various emotional disorders. There was an episode of the Simpsons where Lisa discovered the reality of the statement 'ignorance is bliss'. Generally, as a person's intelligence increases their happiness decreases. Or think of 'Rain Man'. Hyper competence is actually genetically linked to mental disorders. It's one pf the things geneticists are working on, how to unlock single or broad spectrum hyper competence without also causing significant retardation in every other area.
Fun fact: in "The Absent-Minded Professor", Frank Welker got his first acting role while he was in college. This was a few years before he'd voice Fred in Scooby-Doo.
So the actor behind the Genie plays a scientist who is loved by a robot who is voiced by Ariel's voice actress. Is it just me, or are they REALLY trying to appeal to the crossover fanfiction crowd?
Story wise, I think it would have been a lot more smarter to ditch the wedding subplot entirely and focus on the relationship between the professor, Weebo and flubber. Take away the robot -crush stuff and give it a sibling rivalry dynamic. Weebo being the older, more mature robot and flubber being the newborn incontrollable goo that gets away with causing trouble one too many times. The professor loves seeing what his new creation can do, only to forget how important Weebo is to him. Ultimately resulting in a similar climax in which the sponsor tries to steal flubber with weebo taking the hit for it. This is when the arc comes full circle where weebo sacrifices herself, dies but is rebooted in a new model. The professor gets the sponsor arrested and he learns not to take his older creations for granted. End.
I died of laughter when Doug was making it seem like Dale was saying "I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, I DON'T WANNA DIE!!! WAAAAGGGHHH!!!!" and when he mimicked the announcer's voice when he joked and said "And Dale is dead, everybody! Dale is dead! This game if officially dedicated to the Dale who sacrificed his body literally headfirst to score the winning point! Dale is dead!" I know he's only joking but I died laughing so hard when Doug made those jokes.
actualy, I think the idea of Weebo using movies and cartoons to emphasize her thoughs was rather cute and creative. We praticly do it ourselves using memes and, hell, the nostalgia critic does that A LOT in his reviews. If I could pull out those clips as fast as I think about'em anytime, I'd love it.
I think it's so weird going back and watching these reviews and seeing the changes needed to be made in order to not get striked for copyright. The scene where they play the ghostbuster theme is now just eerily quiet, and it makes the "pulling the pants down scene" all the more creepy. XD
I'm a big Robin Williams fan, but I didn’t like this movie. Why? Because the character he plays in this movie is an unlikable jerk who never learns his lesson
I'm a life long Bay Area resident and let me tell you if there is one thing that we people in the Bay Area hold sacred it's Robin Williams and his career! But if I were to be honest there were some stinkers in filmography, just don't let anyone I know, know that I said that! 😜
That dance sequence may have served a purpose in the story if Robin Williams was showing it to a company that could use Flubber’s capabilities to their advantage, and they made an agreement to use it.
i know this is a movie, but theres not a fucking chance anyone has ever forgotten their own wedding 3 times. Honestly, I'm willing to bet no man has ever just flat out forgot about their wedding. Even on the off chance they did, when everyone noticed the guy wasn't there a few hours before the ceremony started I'm sure someone at the very least call or go looking for the missing groom. Something. Thats not quirky or absent minded, it's a serious mental problem. I guess all I'm saying is a guy forgetting his own wedding 3 fucking times is completely unrealistic. Id believe that flubber exists before I believe that shit. Incredibly stupid, far fetched, bull shit is not a good way to start a movie unless you are making a movie thats entire purpose is to be nothing but Incredibly stupid, far fetched, unfunny, bullshit. N
Movies don't acknowledge the fact that stuff happens *before* the wedding. In movies the bride and groom simply show up right on time and it happens. None of the *months of planning, organizing catering, staff, limo driver, renting/buying the suit and dress, scheduling a time when all family members can make it, and other details.* Not to mention, as you said, that people (including bride and groom) would be present at the venue *hours* before the actual ceremony is scheduled to begin, because in real life there's such a thing as logistics. The groom not being there would raise red flags way before it's time to stand at the altar.
@@LadyOnikara And doesn't try to have sex with you using somehow physical holograms while you're unconscious. Wait, maybe it's good Alexa is just a box that sits in the corner and gets confused as to whether you're talking to her or not.
15:23 _"Wow. So, the guy who wrote 'The Breakfast Club' and 'Pretty in Pink' actually had to write the words, 'he farted Flubber out of his anus."_ lol
I gotta admit, this is the only movie that I was Rooting for the villain. Seriously, the bad guy was even more suitable for the love interest than main character himself. I blamed the producers for forcing John Hughes to work with so called writers.
"I blamed the producers for forcing John Hughes to work with so called writers." 1. John Hughes was one of the two producers for this film. 2. The other "writer" died twenty years before this movie even came out. He's in the credits because he wrote the ORIGINAL film(1961) that this was based off of. This is almost all on John Hughes.
AdmiralObviousAckbar There was FLUBBER BEFORE FLUBBER? I didn't know that! Was the original better than the other we all know? About John Hughes, I'm awared that he made shitty works by himself, but I only find those around the 90's or later in his career.
This movie holds a special place in my heart because this was actually the very first movie I saw in a theater. Yeah, I understand if it has its share of flaws, but it's still one of my favorite movies nonetheless. :)
I loved this film the first time I watched it. The last time I saw 'Flubber' on T.V, I felt like vomiting. The movie is just cliche after cliche. The slapstick is the laziest form of comedy. I hate this film, but I understand why people enjoy it. To each his own.
+Kimani Wilson-Hunte Would you believe they should this movie in my Day care a long time ago and they would show it a lot and re watching it now man was this movie really not for kids especially toddlers
We always love the first movie we saw in theatre's. Plus - a movie can be good on Nostalgia alone. What makes a movie good, is it's ability to make us enjoy watching it (: ......My first movie in theatre was The Grinch ;)
I watched this review a week ago in another channel... doesn't matter, I can always watch it again. "Say, what's that woman-thing that I sometimes talk to doing right now?? ... oh well! Flubber!!" that always makes me laugh.
In fairness to the Critic, everyone dies eventually. Even if Robin didn't kill commit suicide and instead lived to a ripe old age, that joke would still have become far less funny after his death.
Robin Williams essentially creates a sentient new element and grinds it down into powder + spray for... basketball. SENTIENT! HE CREATED LIFE THAT BROKE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
+Frisk The Merciful & Chara The Reformed hey, when we just build a humanoid Body for the Steward Bot and Transfer it's Artificial Intelligence in it, would it be fucked up or what?
"I have a science requirement you MORON!" "Shut up, Wesley." Ded. X'D ...on a side note, that bad guy that got hit in the head with the bowling ball is the same guy that plays monk's boss, captain stottlemeyer o:
The wierdest issue of the movie is that the professor programmed that AI to like him. The AI doesn't rewrite itself, it's doing exactly what it is supposed to.
+Dread Naught Not to be the "Well, actually...." guy, but, actually, typically the yardstick programmers use to differentiate between simple code carrying out programmed tasks and actual artificial intelligence is that true AI learns and evolves, and eventually actually will write itself. If even just a plot device for the movie, it's what helps the audience actually care about machines as though they have real emotions, because in a sense, they do.
Yeah....you know I've never been sure whether Wilson died, or just passed out from shock...As a kid, I guess I assumed he died from the way Sara and the Professor slowly walk away in silence.
@@Kiku91 think about this way. If a ball of radioactive flubber entered your system and then proceed to literally pinball it's way through you, only to then leave your anus like it was fired out of a FUCKING howitzer, how would you feel afterwards? If your destroyed organs and anus didn't kill you instantly, then the amount of radiation surely would.
@@boyscouts83712 Touché, my dude. The scene freaked me out as a child either way. It was like... "this should be funny...I think" my little kid brain could not process if Wilson was laughing, crying or both. It is a horrifying death...probably one of the darker Disney deaths, if not ridiculous.
Thumbs up if you just can't hate a Robin Williams movie. Not Flubber, not Hook, not Patch Adams, not Jack. They're awful and childish, but just one glimpse at Robin's face is like getting your Christmas presents early.
Christopher McDonald (the movie's villain) was in almost everything in the 90's and even early 2000's. Dutch Monkey Trouble Celtic Pride Happy Gilmore House Arrest Leave It to Beaver The Iron Giant Spy Kids 2: the Island of Lost Dreams Etc.
Doug really should have done his research before making his incredibly stupid statement at 16:50 that "that other guy" should be blamed for the flaws in this movie's screenplay. A simple click on IMDB would revealed that the other credited writer, Bill Walsh, died in 1975 and didn't actually have anything to do with this movie. The only reason Bill Walsh got credited was because he wrote and produced the original film "The Absent Minded Professor". But the screenplay for "Flubber" was written entirely by John Hughes, so whatever faults there were with the "Flubber" script rest with Hughes. Again: I'm disappointed Doug didn't bother to do his research on this matter before making such brash accusations.
He likely does as well. Dispite what he leads to believe a lot of his reviews he really enjoys. He only plays a character like this for the sake of comedy.
Babies aren't built. Humans aren't consistent like machines are; if you make a machine the same way twice, it'll work the same way. If you raise two kids the exact same way, you won't end up with the same kid.
+CasaiAgicap Sentient beings aren't consistent at all, whetever it's artificial or natural life. As we can see that she's clearly a sentient being, just rebuilding her wouldn't suffice since she wouldn't be very sentient if other things didn't influence her personality than just her code, like with humans. Then you also have things like the connection between the two, and their shared memories.
Nintendo Video Gamer She's still a machine. She's not really "sentient," so much as programmed to "think". We have robots that, while not exactly at this level, are capable of problem solving. Even if our hero doesn't know HOW he did it, he just programmed it. Unlike with people, AI can be given memories and a personality, just by writing it into them. I will admit, this is more of a philosophical argument than a scientific one. So, I will instead just point out that we're arguing over the sentience of a robot in a Robin Williams kid's movie. Not a shot at you, mind you, since I instigated it. I just think we both may wanna sit down and think about what we've done.
+CasaiAgicap +Nintendo Video Gamer: Just as a side note, Weebo deleted her own plans and the professor's too forgetful to remember it himself. Her self-admitted vanity meant that she wanted to be unique, so instead she made a "daughter".
In Flubber 2: the Birth of Weebo, we learn the horrifying truth that Weebo isn't AI. Brainerd murdered a mermaid, scooped her brain out and dumped it into a flying trash can for fun. Then quirkily forgot his own murderous past.
Robin Williams: "I'd rather die than disappoint you." Critic: "Promise?" Originally aired on April 4th, 2010. Wow, is that ever harsher in hindsight! ;'(
I was thinking the same thing. Watching this 1 year after your comment and it has only continued to be more on the spot. The only issue is that the villain is too articulate and not creepy or underhanded enough.
@@StarShadowPrimal idk, Biden is pretty creepy.. much like a walking corpse that is kept animated solely through smelling girl’s hair whenever he gets a chance
I agree with Nostalgia Critic that this movie is bad but it does have a few good things: 1. Robin Williams: despite the bad character he got, Robin did a great performance that I can't see anyone else doing as well. RIP Mr. Williams you are dearly missed. 2. Weeboo: She was a good character that was sad to see her die. Weeboo 2 who we only got a few seconds of at the end... very annoying. 3. The BLAM: while pointless, it was still entertaining to see, especially snice RUclips didn't exist when this movie was released. It's still RUclips worthy to this day. ;) 4. maybe the Villian: not a good character but somewhat fun to see what the actor does as him. The rest is just junk...
honestly I enjoyed flubber as a kid. and I actually found the little flubber character itself kind of cute, in a sort of puppy crossed with gizmo (gremlins) crossed with the blob kind of way.
I will say though I do hate when he doesn't show up for the 4th time. What if he DID show up finally & maybe Weebo's replacement hands the ring. In fact, why not in the beginning as Brainard struggles to remember the 3rd wedding while Weebo tries to remind him of just that...he remembers perfectly and doesn't act awkward when talking to Sarah about the event. I mean there's some changes that could've made this movie stronger. These are just suggestions.
Bicentennial man is not a bad movie. It's long yes BUT very emotional. It's cute to see a robot having emotions and being friends with a little girl :) It's weird that he would fall in love with her though. Not sure she was attracted to him! The girl considers Andrew as a friend, not more! At least the ending was happy; he was accepted by humans before he left. That was adorable X3 Jumknji is also an excellent movie with Robin Williams as well as the first Night at the museum.
By the way, the "other guy" who wrote the screenplay to this film is Bill Walsh, who wrote the original film from the sixties and actually died back in 1975. Fun fact: Bill Walsh was also the writer for Mickey Mouse comic strips from 1943 to the 1960s, as well as the writer and producer of... Mary Poppins. Yes, one of Doug's favourite films.
It’s really dumb that Doug didn’t bother to do his research about who Bill Walsh was before making dismissive comments about him as “the other guy” credited for the script.
I remember liking this movie until I realized a working sentient robot is much more impressive than dancing snot and all the characters failing to acknowledge that was bad, bad writing.
I remember seeing this movie at school on a half a day or something. I even as a kid I wanted to see more of the weebo story. That's a perfect story straight from a CYBERPUNK novel or something. A.I. falling in love with a human. A computer developing feelings. I mean wtf!🤷🏻♂️
I think a better ending would've been if Sara and Wilson end up together, and Phillip and Weebo end up together. It would make Phillip redeemable. The story would be that he didn't miss the wedding because he's forgetful/a jerk, he missed it because he truly doesn't love Sara and he didn't even know it. IDK, I think that's more sensible. Besides, it's better than seeing the only truly likeable character (Weebo) get friendzoned for a woman that Phillip won't even attend the wedding to...
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"Where are you spending your honeymoon, divorce court?"
Priceless
I loved his whole thing on 4:20... "YOUR AN IDIOT"-4:35 was a PRICELESS reaction!
100% agree 🤣
I feel like a good chunk of this movie would've been a lot better if instead of missing the wedding three times, it was about him getting the courage to propose to Sarah while also dealing the obvious bad guy, as well as trying to save the college. Yes it would've been a bit more predictable, but it would've at least made Phillip more likable.
Jesus, 3 TIMES
That's 3x the cost of the Wedding 😵
Fun fact, this movie was only made so they could use that scene with the dancing Flubber. I'm not kidding at all.
+Matt Lipton And it wasn't even well written into the movie! That's a whole new level of not giving a shit.
They could have just made it into a music video...why'd they have to make a movie, are they that stupid?
They could've have made that into a short film? !?
+Matt Lipton They could've made it into a TV Short Special.
Danielle Pluzsik so pay 24 billion instead of 4 million
That villain is so blunt, but only that actor can get away with it because he’s so good at playing the snooty, arrogant villain.
Nostalgia critic's reaction when Robin Williams does not show up at the altar for the Fourth time for his wedding is priceless 🤣😂😆
RIP Robin Williams 1951-2014
killjoy
Lol
@@FrankSinatraTheSecond Death ain't funny, pal.
@@gooeyfan767 Yes, it is unlike Williams. No reason to be a sourpuss tosspot.
John Huges was entirely to blame for Flubber's horrible writing. The other guy was dead.
Bill Walsh was the writer of the The Absent Minded Professor, the film Flubber was based on. Walsh had died 19 years before Flubber was released and long before the film was in production.
Yeah, parts of Bill's script were unchanged from the original. That's why he received the posthumous co-writing credit. Not to mention that Bill also co-wrote the screenplay for Mary Poppins.
exactly@@aussieman3021
Why is missing the wedding four times is considered a funny running gag? I don't get the joke. That doesn't make someone quirky, it makes them stupid.
Why would someone with a history of getting absorbed in his work *do some of that work the morning before his wedding anyway?* At that point he should have been accompanied by one of the wedding staff, or the limo driver, or even a nanny.
The fact it happened a second time (let alone a third) means we can't really blame just him anymore. That's itching into "mental disorder, unfit to live independently, why aren't we fucking assigning people to watch him" territory.
Wow, you said the same thing the Nostalgia Critic said
Profound
Brave
Inspiring
*Slow clapping*
Thank you sir
Sad thing is, it's not entirely a joke. One of the scientists on the Manhattan Project caused a major security alert because he had a thought while sitting at a stop sign on the way to work and sat there to think about it. Didn't realise anything was wrong until a cop knocked on his window six hours later. Of course, in real life he lost his license and the government assigned him a driver.
@@Lockpickingblacksmith he sat at a fucking stop sign for 6hours dazing into space? Did he have ADHD cause that sounds like something my dumb af ADHD habits would do...
@@TheRelevantusername I don't know, most really, really smart people have various emotional disorders. There was an episode of the Simpsons where Lisa discovered the reality of the statement 'ignorance is bliss'. Generally, as a person's intelligence increases their happiness decreases. Or think of 'Rain Man'. Hyper competence is actually genetically linked to mental disorders. It's one pf the things geneticists are working on, how to unlock single or broad spectrum hyper competence without also causing significant retardation in every other area.
Fun fact: in "The Absent-Minded Professor", Frank Welker got his first acting role while he was in college. This was a few years before he'd voice Fred in Scooby-Doo.
So the actor behind the Genie plays a scientist who is loved by a robot who is voiced by Ariel's voice actress. Is it just me, or are they REALLY trying to appeal to the crossover fanfiction crowd?
IdeaBox9000 You realise I now have to go draw Ariel and Genie on a weird date on a rowboat that Genie conjured into existence, right?
@@EmilysAdventuresInHorrorland In the immortal words of Charlie Brown, good grief!
I'd rather read some fanfiction than watch this. Some fanfictions are actually really interesting
@@DrDolan2000 l;ol
yeah maybe
Story wise, I think it would have been a lot more smarter to ditch the wedding subplot entirely and focus on the relationship between the professor, Weebo and flubber.
Take away the robot -crush stuff and give it a sibling rivalry dynamic. Weebo being the older, more mature robot and flubber being the newborn incontrollable goo that gets away with causing trouble one too many times. The professor loves seeing what his new creation can do, only to forget how important Weebo is to him. Ultimately resulting in a similar climax in which the sponsor tries to steal flubber with weebo taking the hit for it.
This is when the arc comes full circle where weebo sacrifices herself, dies but is rebooted in a new model. The professor gets the sponsor arrested and he learns not to take his older creations for granted. End.
Nice
I died of laughter when Doug was making it seem like Dale was saying "I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, I DON'T WANNA DIE!!! WAAAAGGGHHH!!!!" and when he mimicked the announcer's voice when he joked and said "And Dale is dead, everybody! Dale is dead! This game if officially dedicated to the Dale who sacrificed his body literally headfirst to score the winning point! Dale is dead!" I know he's only joking but I died laughing so hard when Doug made those jokes.
"This will be the highlight of the film's comedy."
For some reason, I find that line so hilarious.
actualy, I think the idea of Weebo using movies and cartoons to emphasize her thoughs was rather cute and creative. We praticly do it ourselves using memes and, hell, the nostalgia critic does that A LOT in his reviews. If I could pull out those clips as fast as I think about'em anytime, I'd love it.
I almost choked because I thought you said Weeaboo. Double checked and saw Weebo. But Weeaboos basically do the same thing, cept they fuck it.
Anyone else think it was kind of like an early form of reaction gifs?
Now thats something to think about.
Robin Williams falls down and gets hurt
Weebo: HE NEEDS SOME MILK!
Ergotth - same thing bumble bee did in transformers. Kinda reminded me of some of th stuff monkeybone would say too
It makes sense it also kinda explains why Weebo is such a creep in some scenes as she knows nothing about romance outside of Disney movies
I think it's so weird going back and watching these reviews and seeing the changes needed to be made in order to not get striked for copyright. The scene where they play the ghostbuster theme is now just eerily quiet, and it makes the "pulling the pants down scene" all the more creepy. XD
I wondered why it was quiet!!!
16:23 "Run away, woman! Run away!"
Always gets a laugh out of me!
I'm a big Robin Williams fan, but I didn’t like this movie. Why? Because the character he plays in this movie is an unlikable jerk who never learns his lesson
is he?
@Chrysaura no i do
He actually does really well considering the terrible character writing!
I'm a life long Bay Area resident and let me tell you if there is one thing that we people in the Bay Area hold sacred it's Robin Williams and his career! But if I were to be honest there were some stinkers in filmography, just don't let anyone I know, know that I said that! 😜
@@minxstole93 ok
That dance sequence may have served a purpose in the story if Robin Williams was showing it to a company that could use Flubber’s capabilities to their advantage, and they made an agreement to use it.
Such as shame that one of my favorite actors starred in so many bad movies. :/
+kristof gergely so close
but it's these kind of movies that give us memories of them good or bad
+kristof gergely At least we got him in Alladin
***** Aladdin*
Like Adam Sandler
i know this is a movie, but theres not a fucking chance anyone has ever forgotten their own wedding 3 times. Honestly, I'm willing to bet no man has ever just flat out forgot about their wedding. Even on the off chance they did, when everyone noticed the guy wasn't there a few hours before the ceremony started I'm sure someone at the very least call or go looking for the missing groom. Something. Thats not quirky or absent minded, it's a serious mental problem. I guess all I'm saying is a guy forgetting his own wedding 3 fucking times is completely unrealistic. Id believe that flubber exists before I believe that shit. Incredibly stupid, far fetched, bull shit is not a good way to start a movie unless you are making a movie thats entire purpose is to be nothing but Incredibly stupid, far fetched, unfunny, bullshit. N
August West ahem, sgt bilko would like a word with you
Movies don't acknowledge the fact that stuff happens *before* the wedding. In movies the bride and groom simply show up right on time and it happens. None of the *months of planning, organizing catering, staff, limo driver, renting/buying the suit and dress, scheduling a time when all family members can make it, and other details.*
Not to mention, as you said, that people (including bride and groom) would be present at the venue *hours* before the actual ceremony is scheduled to begin, because in real life there's such a thing as logistics. The groom not being there would raise red flags way before it's time to stand at the altar.
Plus, even if he DID forget his wedding twice, someone would have seen the pattern and just gone to his house to grab him before the ceremony.
Yeah honestly, unless you have alzheimers or something, you have no excuses
I genuinely enjoy how mad this makes people lol
RIP to my comedic inspiration and a great all around dude.. Robin Williams.. it’s been 4 years but it feels like it was just yesterday
*If Flubber really traveled through someone’s entire intestinal tract… it would have created a hell of a mess coming out the other side.*
The one character I come close to liking in this movie is Rebo. Jodi Benson’s vocal performance gives her a lot of emotion.
TheDreweMaster NC:"But Cybersex will have to wait"
More like Cyber Rape
I want my own Weebo. Alexa just isn't as animated, and doesn't move at all.
@@LadyOnikara And doesn't try to have sex with you using somehow physical holograms while you're unconscious.
Wait, maybe it's good Alexa is just a box that sits in the corner and gets confused as to whether you're talking to her or not.
15:23 _"Wow. So, the guy who wrote 'The Breakfast Club' and 'Pretty in Pink' actually had to write the words, 'he farted Flubber out of his anus."_
lol
Catzilla
Read "Lust is Fluid"...
' this is a sad day people.' XD
I gotta admit, this is the only movie that I was Rooting for the villain. Seriously, the bad guy was even more suitable for the love interest than main character himself. I blamed the producers for forcing John Hughes to work with so called writers.
"I blamed the producers for forcing John Hughes to work with so called writers."
1. John Hughes was one of the two producers for this film.
2. The other "writer" died twenty years before this movie even came out. He's in the credits because he wrote the ORIGINAL film(1961) that this was based off of.
This is almost all on John Hughes.
AdmiralObviousAckbar There was FLUBBER BEFORE FLUBBER? I didn't know that! Was the original better than the other we all know?
About John Hughes, I'm awared that he made shitty works by himself, but I only find those around the 90's or later in his career.
Yeah it was called “the absent minded scientist” or something
@@mrcritical6751 "Professor", actually.
Did you know he's the same guy who voiced Mansley in The Iron Giant?
8:49
Okay, where is that award of best reaction to a flying ghost robot..
I remember when they had Flubber McDonalds toys
Those weren't Flubber toys, that was the food. Easy mistake, I know. :P
@@matthewjones6786 he is Drax
@@matthewjones6786 nah, the toy flubber goo could actually get mouldy
This movie holds a special place in my heart because this was actually the very first movie I saw in a theater. Yeah, I understand if it has its share of flaws, but it's still one of my favorite movies nonetheless. :)
Lol we all have our guilty pleasures XD
I loved this film the first time I watched it. The last time I saw 'Flubber' on T.V, I felt like vomiting. The movie is just cliche after cliche. The slapstick is the laziest form of comedy. I hate this film, but I understand why people enjoy it. To each his own.
+Kimani Wilson-Hunte Would you believe they should this movie in my Day care a long time ago and they would show it a lot and re watching it now man was this movie really not for kids especially toddlers
We always love the first movie we saw in theatre's.
Plus - a movie can be good on Nostalgia alone. What makes a movie good, is it's ability to make us enjoy watching it (:
......My first movie in theatre was The Grinch ;)
Houndovhell Well said. :)
I watched this review a week ago in another channel... doesn't matter, I can always watch it again.
"Say, what's that woman-thing that I sometimes talk to doing right now?? ... oh well! Flubber!!" that always makes me laugh.
I feel like about a hundred channels have a bunch of his videos for some reason.
+I Tripped over a Thunder Stone They do. People all over RUclips saved them after the Fall of Blip.tv, where he used to put his videos.
man this film is so bad that even the BIG LIPPED ALIGATOR MOMENT couldn't handle it
They had a great premise and flubbed it.
15:48 - The way the Critic scream "WWWHHAAATT?"
Why does the Flubber dance animation remind me of the animations they play at the bowling alley when you get a strike?
"i'll rather die than disappoint you" - Rob
"promise?" - Critic
weeeellll............... yeah.....
:(
+ninjack11 Hilarious.
In fairness to the Critic, everyone dies eventually. Even if Robin didn't kill commit suicide and instead lived to a ripe old age, that joke would still have become far less funny after his death.
The critic must have been a bit of a...... CLOD!
+MyOzx To be fair, this is a old review so some jokes can be outdated.
+TrashJack3000 Also he wasn't dead yet when this video was originally published.
I've just realised that the Home Alone 3 poster says "Better than the first two!".
Quote from Roger Ebert, none the less.
That message is total BULLSH*T!
Kids from "Richie Rich": "NOT!"
Robin Williams essentially creates a sentient new element and grinds it down into powder + spray for... basketball. SENTIENT! HE CREATED LIFE THAT BROKE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
11:29
...I have no idea why, but I laughed so f*cking hard when he front flipped like that. XD
This was actually the first Nostalgia Critic video I had ever seen.
Still holds up spectacularly. (Unlike the movie itself.)
The Ghostbusters scene added to this is perfect.
And then there’s copyright strikes :(
You know you're badass when you got Shawshank's top guard and Buffalo Bill to watch your back.
I thought the Weebo things was cute. Sad, sweet.
same
+Roberta Tallienne Easily the best and most human character in the movie, oddly enough.
She really carried the film.
+Frisk The Merciful & Chara The Reformed hey, when we just build a humanoid Body for the Steward Bot and Transfer it's Artificial Intelligence in it, would it be fucked up or what?
Iris Confusion eh, everyone deserves a body, I f t h e y c a n f e e l . . .(yes I'm trying to be creepy, and no I don't know why :P)
8:58 This film predicted "Her".
And Blade Runner 2049
What's "her"
@@jodez739 A film with Joaquin Phoenix
@@jodez739
Joaquin Phoenix plays a man who begins a relationship with an A.I. device voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
It's even creepier when you realize Robin William's character is technically her father because he built her.
"I have a science requirement you MORON!"
"Shut up, Wesley."
Ded. X'D
...on a side note, that bad guy that got hit in the head with the bowling ball is the same guy that plays monk's boss, captain stottlemeyer o:
I love Robin Williams so much that even when the movie is bad I usually still enjoy it. I wish he had more time to make great movies.
The Joe Biden Joke aged like wine
Hope America is ready for a biden vs trump round 2. 🙄
@Bullboy_Adventures We’re not and we never will be.
@@elder-woodsilverstein7716 too bad. Cause those two are our only options
@@Bullboy_Adventuresreally not, pay attention at the next election please.
@@elder-woodsilverstein7716it’s amazing how y’all act like only two options exist.
The wierdest issue of the movie is that the professor programmed that AI to like him. The AI doesn't rewrite itself, it's doing exactly what it is supposed to.
+Dread Naught He probably did that so it wouldn't kill him if it tried to take over the world.
DarthRushy Obsession is a weird failsafe during world domination lol
Dread Naught Hey, I'd take that over HAL 9000 any day. Actually, I'd take that any day.
+Dread Naught Not to be the "Well, actually...." guy, but, actually, typically the yardstick programmers use to differentiate between simple code carrying out programmed tasks and actual artificial intelligence is that true AI learns and evolves, and eventually actually will write itself. If even just a plot device for the movie, it's what helps the audience actually care about machines as though they have real emotions, because in a sense, they do.
+DarthRushy just what do you think you are doing, darth?
Oh he didn't fart flubber tore it's self out his ass!
Yeah....you know I've never been sure whether Wilson died, or just passed out from shock...As a kid, I guess I assumed he died from the way Sara and the Professor slowly walk away in silence.
@@Kiku91 think about this way. If a ball of radioactive flubber entered your system and then proceed to literally pinball it's way through you, only to then leave your anus like it was fired out of a FUCKING howitzer, how would you feel afterwards? If your destroyed organs and anus didn't kill you instantly, then the amount of radiation surely would.
@@boyscouts83712 Touché, my dude. The scene freaked me out as a child either way. It was like... "this should be funny...I think" my little kid brain could not process if Wilson was laughing, crying or both. It is a horrifying death...probably one of the darker Disney deaths, if not ridiculous.
Nostalgia Critic: "But he's approached by that one guy whose name you can't remember"
Me: Christopher McDonald
We got a winner!
Or as I know him, Shooter McGavin
Is the whole "Flubber Dancing" sequence just extra filler that they couldn't fit in Jim Carrey's The Mask?
Haha Cuban Pete
no, the whole movie was made, just to put that scene in theaters!
@@masonasaro2118, they could've easily made that into a short or have it be in a commercial.
@@crimsoncrusader518 most of the commercials back then focused on the flubber dance
@@masonasaro2118 No wonder I remember the trailer more than I did the movie.
My dad took my brother to watch this movie in the theater. I couldn't go because I was with my friends getting drunk. That was a struck of good luck!
Do you not feel bad for your dad and your brother ?
This review is 6 years old now.
God have we gotten old
And your comment is 4 years old
@@microsoftsamreloaded3558And yours is 3 years old.
Thumbs up if you just can't hate a Robin Williams movie. Not Flubber, not Hook, not Patch Adams, not Jack. They're awful and childish, but just one glimpse at Robin's face is like getting your Christmas presents early.
Hook is a good movie.
But... But... I thought Patch Adams was a good enough movie
+Troy Mcbean yep.
+DaFlamingLink Until the NC ruined it for me.
Troy Mcbean DaFlamingLink Does it matter what I think of the movie? My point is, Robin Williams is magic.
6:50 wait, that's NOT Shia Lebuff?
He said that "Not quite Shia LaBeouf" is Wil Wheaton from Star Trek.
FlashFilm Productions Wil Wheaton also voiced Martin in "The Secret of NIMH".
SHUT UP WESLEY
The flubber on his hands would have caused everyone he shook hands with to bounce off his hand rather than transfer the flubber.
Christopher McDonald (the movie's villain) was in almost everything in the 90's and even early 2000's.
Dutch
Monkey Trouble
Celtic Pride
Happy Gilmore
House Arrest
Leave It to Beaver
The Iron Giant
Spy Kids 2: the Island of Lost Dreams
Etc.
He's amazing as Harry Daugherty in Boardwalk Empire
Don’t forget the game show host in “Requiem For A Dream”
The faculty
And that mean husband from Thelma and Louise.
Continuous acceleration? Young lady, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
2:09 Fool me once, I'm mad
Fool me twice, how could you
Fool me three times, you're officially that guy
9:21 okay this is a Disney film WTF?
She was just trying to kiss him the other pants scene was from Ghostbusters
Doug really should have done his research before making his incredibly stupid statement at 16:50 that "that other guy" should be blamed for the flaws in this movie's screenplay. A simple click on IMDB would revealed that the other credited writer, Bill Walsh, died in 1975 and didn't actually have anything to do with this movie. The only reason Bill Walsh got credited was because he wrote and produced the original film "The Absent Minded Professor". But the screenplay for "Flubber" was written entirely by John Hughes, so whatever faults there were with the "Flubber" script rest with Hughes. Again: I'm disappointed Doug didn't bother to do his research on this matter before making such brash accusations.
but... but I liked Flubber
Oh no! Some random guy in the internet doesn't like the movie I like! Well, I must not like it anymore
Dat pic makes me laugh and creeps me.
He likely does as well. Dispite what he leads to believe a lot of his reviews he really enjoys. He only plays a character like this for the sake of comedy.
Well the RIP opinions
Arson Bjork I Love Flubber it’s a good Robin Williams movie
Critic: Why not just rebuild her?
Because you don't ask a couple who lost their baby 'why not just have another baby'.
Babies aren't built. Humans aren't consistent like machines are; if you make a machine the same way twice, it'll work the same way. If you raise two kids the exact same way, you won't end up with the same kid.
+CasaiAgicap Sentient beings aren't consistent at all, whetever it's artificial or natural life. As we can see that she's clearly a sentient being, just rebuilding her wouldn't suffice since she wouldn't be very sentient if other things didn't influence her personality than just her code, like with humans. Then you also have things like the connection between the two, and their shared memories.
Nintendo Video Gamer She's still a machine. She's not really "sentient," so much as programmed to "think". We have robots that, while not exactly at this level, are capable of problem solving. Even if our hero doesn't know HOW he did it, he just programmed it.
Unlike with people, AI can be given memories and a personality, just by writing it into them.
I will admit, this is more of a philosophical argument than a scientific one. So, I will instead just point out that we're arguing over the sentience of a robot in a Robin Williams kid's movie.
Not a shot at you, mind you, since I instigated it. I just think we both may wanna sit down and think about what we've done.
+CasaiAgicap +Nintendo Video Gamer: Just as a side note, Weebo deleted her own plans and the professor's too forgetful to remember it himself. Her self-admitted vanity meant that she wanted to be unique, so instead she made a "daughter".
+Nintendo Video Gamer He can rebuild Weebo's shell/body, and just put the AI core/brain into the new body.
For some reason, "Flubber's going to the basketball game" is a joke in my family.
6:51 Critic not knowing how well people would know them, and this joke aging PERFECTLY seen live!
'Batteries not included' would be a great movie to review.
They have dudes flipping around, flying through the hoop with their whole body and leaping 40 ft in the air and they only won by one point.
My favorite thing about this movie: making my own flubber at home when I was a kid :D
the way he moved at 8:01 made me crack up
So "Flubber" is short for "Flying Rubber"... you just changed my fucking world!! Neither that joke nor the concept made it into the Spanish dub!!
the cover for Home Alone 3 actually says "Beter than the first two"
Yeah.
From Roger Ebert among all people.
@@scottvasquez1401 this is the same guy that liked speed 2 and gave it two stars up and the same rating he gave the godfather part 2
10:20 movie has suddenly turned into an old bumper for Nickelodeon
In Flubber 2: the Birth of Weebo, we learn the horrifying truth that Weebo isn't AI. Brainerd murdered a mermaid, scooped her brain out and dumped it into a flying trash can for fun. Then quirkily forgot his own murderous past.
8:46
NC's reaction sums it up pretty well.
brainard acts like every 12 year old kid in 2017 that makes slime with borax and glue, a scientific breakthrough
You should've done an "Old Vs New" of this
Robin Williams: "I'd rather die than disappoint you."
Critic: "Promise?"
Originally aired on April 4th, 2010.
Wow, is that ever harsher in hindsight! ;'(
I love how all the Joe Biden jokes have only become more relevant five years later
They have!!!
.... Eleven. Eleven years later. This was published in 2010, it was just only uploaded to YT in 2015.
FJB
I was thinking the same thing. Watching this 1 year after your comment and it has only continued to be more on the spot. The only issue is that the villain is too articulate and not creepy or underhanded enough.
@@StarShadowPrimal idk, Biden is pretty creepy.. much like a walking corpse that is kept animated solely through smelling girl’s hair whenever he gets a chance
"Fun" fact: the time distance between the movie and the review is the same as the one between the review and nowadays: 13 years
I agree with Nostalgia Critic that this movie is bad but it does have a few good things:
1. Robin Williams: despite the bad character he got, Robin did a great performance that I can't see anyone else doing as well. RIP Mr. Williams you are dearly missed.
2. Weeboo: She was a good character that was sad to see her die. Weeboo 2 who we only got a few seconds of at the end... very annoying.
3. The BLAM: while pointless, it was still entertaining to see, especially snice RUclips didn't exist when this movie was released. It's still RUclips worthy to this day. ;)
4. maybe the Villian: not a good character but somewhat fun to see what the actor does as him.
The rest is just junk...
I didn't realize this was this bad till finally saw this and looked at it this way and damn...wow.
honestly I enjoyed flubber as a kid. and I actually found the little flubber character itself kind of cute, in a sort of puppy crossed with gizmo (gremlins) crossed with the blob kind of way.
I will say though I do hate when he doesn't show up for the 4th time. What if he DID show up finally & maybe Weebo's replacement hands the ring. In fact, why not in the beginning as Brainard struggles to remember the 3rd wedding while Weebo tries to remind him of just that...he remembers perfectly and doesn't act awkward when talking to Sarah about the event. I mean there's some changes that could've made this movie stronger. These are just suggestions.
Bicentennial man is not a bad movie. It's long yes BUT very emotional. It's cute to see a robot having emotions and being friends with a little girl :) It's weird that he would fall in love with her though. Not sure she was attracted to him! The girl considers Andrew as a friend, not more! At least the ending was happy; he was accepted by humans before he left. That was adorable X3 Jumknji is also an excellent movie with Robin Williams as well as the first Night at the museum.
@ladypool1404 It wasn't the little girl that he was in a relationship, it was her lookalike granddaughter from what I remember.
By the way, the "other guy" who wrote the screenplay to this film is Bill Walsh, who wrote the original film from the sixties and actually died back in 1975. Fun fact: Bill Walsh was also the writer for Mickey Mouse comic strips from 1943 to the 1960s, as well as the writer and producer of... Mary Poppins. Yes, one of Doug's favourite films.
It’s really dumb that Doug didn’t bother to do his research about who Bill Walsh was before making dismissive comments about him as “the other guy” credited for the script.
"I'd rather die than disappoint you"
"Promise?"
this....this did not age well given how Robin Williams died
Was searching for this comment lmao my thoughts exactly
7:02 That part killed me xD
I loved the flubber dance scene as a kid. I think it was the only scene I paid attention to. Apart from maybe the basketball scene.
The thing i never got was that the flubber was....sentient? i mean .....he made a jelly that can think? and then destroys it repeatedly?
3:00 OMG that is the perfect description of that guy (ironically enough, I can't remember his name).
This was one of the first movies I've ever seen in my entire life. Still have the VHS!
I love the Flubber dance scene.
I used to love this movie...
kyotheman69 Nope. Still love this movie. Because it's, well, nostalgic
I love this movie regardless of this review
Kuro Heart Still do. My brother used to threaten me with taping the VHS over with Dora if I didn't do what he said.
Why say used to if you still do
I remember liking this movie until I realized a working sentient robot is much more impressive than dancing snot and all the characters failing to acknowledge that was bad, bad writing.
The best part is when flubber exploded out that guys ass. Lmao 15:20
Happy Madison Audience member confirmed...
that was the worst part
I remember seeing this movie at school on a half a day or something. I even as a kid I wanted to see more of the weebo story. That's a perfect story straight from a CYBERPUNK novel or something. A.I. falling in love with a human. A computer developing feelings. I mean wtf!🤷🏻♂️
I would pay a thousand bucks, maybe two, for a WeeBo. It would be freaking awesome to have an Alexa device flying around my house and doing stuff.
Fun fact: this movie is based on two old Disney movies the absent minded professor and son of flubber
8:24 I fucking lost it! That was hilarious to me lol.
Do a little dance…
Make a little Flub…
Get down tonight.
Get down tonight
9:14 Did that REALLY just happen in a KIDS film??
Or is it a scene from Ghostbusters 1 ?
It's Ghostbusters 1
I think a better ending would've been if Sara and Wilson end up together, and Phillip and Weebo end up together. It would make Phillip redeemable. The story would be that he didn't miss the wedding because he's forgetful/a jerk, he missed it because he truly doesn't love Sara and he didn't even know it. IDK, I think that's more sensible. Besides, it's better than seeing the only truly likeable character (Weebo) get friendzoned for a woman that Phillip won't even attend the wedding to...
Hey, that loser coach was also Ted the lawyer in Scrubs.
10:42 no critic it's not boring it's BATSHIT INSANE!
the Joe Biden joke aged like wine