Absent-Minded Professor

Buy This Item Absent-Minded Professor by Buena Vista Home Video  Available from Amazon  $14.99  on 11-4-2008     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, <I>Flubber</I>. 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 <I>Flubber</I> didn't, particularly the effort by director Robert Stevenson (a Disney favorite who made <I>Mary Poppins</I>, <I>That Darn Cat</I>, <I>Bedknobs and Broomsticks</I>, 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. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews I wish all of you would stop bellyaching about the color...some people prefer it and I am one of them. If you want this in the original black and white that is available at a much cheaper price...at this time the colorized edition is very expensive probably because it was moved into the disney vault because of complainers like you....just do your research and get what you want...thats all

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