75
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80On the surface, Walt Disney's The Absent Minded Professor is a comedy-fantasy of infectious absurdity, a natural follow-up to the studio's Shaggy Dog. But deeply rooted within the screenplay [from a story by Samuel W. Taylor] is a subtle protest against the detached, impersonal machinery of modern progress.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis is a zanily inventive piece of work, with delightful special effects, which set the style for a long series of live-action Disney films.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Absent-Minded Professor, from 1961, starred the late Fred MacMurray in one of his best-remembered comic roles, as a scientist named Brainerd who discovers a substance he dubs "flubber" (for "flying rubber," since it enables people and objects to fly). [08 Jan 1993]
- Wacky, bouncy Disney comedy.