Robert Philpot Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com Aug 7, 2024 2/5

Replaces the original's audience-pleasing sweetness with an audiences-are-suckers cynicism.

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Todd James Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Aug 6, 2024 3/5

Kids should take to it like Jell-O pudding.

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Christine Dolen Miami Herald Aug 6, 2024 2/4

How you could have a proven script, a star with the kinetic improvisational genius of Robin Williams and the best computer-generated effects money can buy and still have created a movie this dull is mind-boggling.

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Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) Jan 10, 2023 D

Kids may be amused, but there is nothing here for an adult. Just another example of how special effects have ruined Hollywood.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews May 30, 2018 1.5/4

...a particularly ineffective Disney reboot that wastes the talent of its cast and crew.

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Yael Shuv Total Film May 30, 2018 2/5

Disney's remake of 1961's The Absent-Minded Professor is a graceless, lifeless, slapstick jamboree.

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David Ansen Newsweek Mar 5, 2018

A cute, well-meaning, but ultimately disappointing movie. Williams, an enormously busy actor these days, seems tired here--and so does a lot of the slapstick.

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Mike Clark USA Today Jan 9, 2018 1.5/4

Robin Williams is given no room to stretch. He's stuck mooning over a romance that will bore youngsters.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B-

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Ellen Twadell Common Sense Media Jan 1, 2011 3/5

Many kids will enjoy this silly movie.

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Gary Brown Houston Community Newspapers Apr 7, 2008 D-

The new version is a total dud.

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Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal Sep 30, 2005 2/5

Bring back Fred MacMurray ... a hyper, witless snooze.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 12, 2005 2/5

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Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Apr 3, 2005 1/5

Loud, keening awfulness.

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Andrew Wright rec.arts.movies.reviews Dec 18, 2004 D

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Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly Sep 3, 2004 0/5

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Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion May 24, 2004 1/5

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John Esther Pasadena Weekly Aug 21, 2003 1/5

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Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly May 20, 2003 2.5/4

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Blake Davis KFOR Channel 4 News (Oklahoma City) Apr 28, 2003 1/5

One of Robin Williams's unspeaklably bad filler movies, and maybe one of his worst...and that's saying a lot.

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