It is not a casuality the double 1988 Oscard nomination that has received Danny Elfman, but the logic consequence of the great work accomplished in a double funny-dramatic facet. Elfman, that in some way has never forgotten his origins as leader of the new-age group Oingo-Boingo, had several years exploring this bicephalic activity having delivered works so interesting as Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Sommersby (1993) or Dolores Claiborne (1994), mentioning only some of them. This last year has allow him to reach the definitive recognition, at critical level, with the nominated Good Will Hunting and Men In Black, being permitted to remain separated a so stupendous and assorted score as Flubber, a updated remake of the already aged fantastic comedy The Absent Minded Professor (1961). Elfman's music matches to the perfection with the wild plot, with its jocular and festive tone, assorted and brilliant orchestration (work of their customary collaborators and friends Steve Bartek, Mark MacKenzie, Conrad Pope and Edgardo Simone), and stupendous thematic development established in the mambo air that opens the disk (Main Title), and that after the explosion of sound that supposes Mambo del Flubber, is closed gorgeously in the magnificent End Credits, a musical compendium of the work in a little more than seven minutes. The high pitch is Goo a Little Dance, one of the already old songs of K.C & the Sunshine Band (how the time goes by!). A delight. M.A.F.

/ WALT DISNEY 60952-7 / 47'