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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Kids should take to it like Jell-O pudding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2024

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

| Original Score: D | Jan 10, 2023

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

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 30, 2018

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 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.

| Mar 5, 2018

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 9, 2018

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Many kids will enjoy this silly movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

The new version is a total dud.

| Original Score: D- | Apr 7, 2008

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2005

Loud, keening awfulness.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 3, 2005

| Original Score: D | Dec 18, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 3, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 24, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 21, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003