Flubber
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.
Our read · Flubber (1997) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · family · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Flubber
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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