Flubber [G]

It seems like everything is against the absent-minded Professor Brainard. About to lose the love of his life and the collage he teaches at, the Professor comes up with a way to win back both. He has created something extraordinary. Flying rubber... FLUBBER!

As you all may or may not have noticed by now, I enjoy watching kid's movies. I'm the type of person who always goes back to the classic films that I was brought up on when I was a child. Seriously they're timeless classics and so much better than what kids are watching nowadays. Dora the Explorer has got nothing on Flubber!

Phillip Brainard is an absent-minded and very forgetful Professor who teaches at a college that is greatly in debt and in danger of closing down. He is also in love and set to marry the college's headmistress. After forgetting his own wedding twice, his fiance gives him one final chance to prove that he loves her. But alas, the night of the wedding Phillip makes a breakthrough in his experiment to save the college and misses the wedding a third time. Now all he is left with is a broken heart and a handful of green goo known as Flubber. As his rival of many years comes onto the scene to, once more, steal his ideas and now his fiance, Phillip is determined to prove his worth by winning back Sara and saving the college, all with the help of Flubber.

Robin Williams is Phillip Brainard and he is great. He never goes over the top and you do develop a sympathy for him as his circumstances go from bad to worse. You're on his side the whole way through. Go Phillip go!

This movie is filled with wonderful characters, many of whom are actually robots and inventions of the Professor's. I love Weebo, this tiny little hovering robot who keeps Phillip's schedule and everything. It's great because you actually forget that many of these characters are not human. They speak, argue, and behave just as any person would, that's what makes them so wonderful to watch.

Joining Robin in the green goo mix is Marcia Gay Harden and Christopher McDonald, with Jodi Benson as the voice of Weebo.

And here's a funny little note, I never realised it before, but one of the henchmen of the film's bad guy is the guy who played the psycho serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. Needless to say, I can't look at him in this movie the same way anymore.

Filled with flying cars, cute green goo, adorable robots, slapstick action and heaps of humour, Flubber is a timeless classic kid's film that has you smiling the whole way through.