# Flubber (Robin Williams version)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 23, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flubber-robin-williams-version/755458 "2016-05-23T14:15:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flubber-robin-williams-version/755458/1 "2016-05-23T14:15:18Z")

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Although I’ve seen this movie before (in the comfort of my house), I wasn’t really paying attention. The kids put it on recently, and this time I really watched it. This version seems so incoherent. Instead of allowing the plot to unfold in a logical fashion, it seems the audience is forced to piece together snippets of plot to integrate the story for themselves. Did anyone else feel this way? And, does anyone recall if the original is just as choppy? [I trust the original is done to perfection as the original is always so much better versus the remake(s).]

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flubber-robin-williams-version/755458/2 "2016-05-27T00:56:18Z")

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For what it’s worth, you don’t need to say it’s the Robin Williams version because the previous versions with Fred MacMurray and Harry Anderson were both called The Absent Minded Professor. (Though MacMurray did do a sequel called Son of Flubber.)

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flubber-robin-williams-version/755458/3 "2016-05-27T05:12:31Z")

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I think I know what you’re getting at, but I don’t think it was hard to follow so much as they didn’t focus much on the science part. The stuff that was in the first movie seemed to take a back seat to the “real plot” about his computer loving him, getting back together with his fiancee, and defeating the bad guys at the end. Well, that and showing Flubber being silly.

Oddly enough, the movie not named after the substance put flubber more front and center to everything.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flubber-robin-williams-version/755458/4 "2016-05-27T15:34:44Z")

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> Oddly enough, the movie not named after the substance put flubber more front and center to everything.

Sort of like how _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ focused mostly on Charlie, and _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ focused mostly on Wonka?