Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity

A Non-Reveiw by Professor Popinjay

Today I’m talking about the film titled… uh… let’s see… now what was it called again?… can’t recall. Anyway, it stars that one guy… you know who I’m talking about… he’s always smoking a tobacco pipe? Arthur MacSomething. Anyway, he invents some stuff. It’s funny. You had to be there I guess. Will Disney made a reboot a couple years later. 36. 36 years later Wade Disney made a reboot. They also made a sequel back in the day. Tuesday, I think. So, yeah. There you go.

——I liked aspects of the original and the remake. Other parts were kind of contrived or cringy. I think renaming the film was a good call. Flutter. Or Rubber. No… BLUBBER! That was it. I was way off with Flutter. Anyway. I always got the original mixed up with the Nutty Professor. I think it was a mistake to turn the Blubber into a kind of sentient character in the remake. It raised some ethical questions when using the now sentient substance as a power source. But hey, it was early cgi and early cgi had to dance. Always with the dancing. What is this vaudeville? Even Garfield the world’s laziest cat had to dance. He had to. He was cgi. Cgi dances. Period.

——The idea of an absent minded character is funny but I feel like he still needs to be likable. That’s a hard balance to maintain. Frank McWhatshisname I feel came off as obnoxious more than adorably absent minded. Robin William’s portrayal of the same character was pretty darn lovable but golf course he was. He’s Robin Williams. No one will ever forget him no matter how absent… uh… absent… brain thingy.