Watched this film at Paris theater in NYC aka the Netflix Theater. Without spoiling much, I will just that this film is not very funny. Contrary, it's long, it's got too many characters, the storyline is very vague and confusing, and the jokes are not there. Judd Apatow was bragging about finishing the script in 8 weeks, and honestly it really felt so.
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The best scenes are in the trailer
Leofwine_draca2 April 2022
A mixed-bag Hollywood comedy, suffering from the usual complaint which is that all the best scenes are in the trailer. This one offers a broad satire of filmmaking in the COVID era, with a lot of lockdowns, bubbles and hygiene-following. A sprawling ensemble cast are efficient in their roles, some funnier than others, but sadly the wit tends to be bypassed in favour of dumber sex or vomit gags. I did enjoy the dancing scenes and the CGI jokes, however.
Too long & not funny...
inkledoodle1 April 2022
Premise had a lot of potential. The cast are talented. The film is just not very good. It's poorly paced and the gags are flat. Could've been great with a rewrite that included actual jokes and slicker dialogue.
Not a good film by any measure.
Not a good film by any measure.
Was looking for a fun movie, never got it
njvermeulen1 April 2022
I was just looking forward to a fun Friday night movie. Nothing serious, something silly and funny. In the end the movie was just not meeting any of my expectations. It just wasn't funny... It felt neverending. Maybe they were trying to make a point with the ongoing pandemic.
I do not recommend it. I don't even think that I would find it funny if I was high.
I do not recommend it. I don't even think that I would find it funny if I was high.
Just not funny
Otte11 April 2022
Not once did I laugh, at most I had about two 'slight chuckles'. None of the characters are interesting, there are two many, and the writing is sophomoric at best. It anything it gave a slight documentary of what film sets went through during the pandemic but other than that it does not serve a purpose.
A hot mess
eve_dolluk1 April 2022
If you fancy a bit of escapism during these hard times then you have come to the right place. This is a pretty silly but amusing comedy about a movie production during Covid.
I'm not going to lie, the film is a bit all over the place, the pacing is either super fast or super slow and at times it seems like its going on forever. The film they are filming is silly and I guess this is what you might call a parody of the industry and Hollywood.
There are also a ton of Cameos, as expected from an Apatow film, this is however one of the less structured Apatow comedy's out there.
Strangely enough Leslie Mann is in this film...... who would have thought Eh. Whats that ???? Iris Apatow is in this film as well. Surely she plays the daughter of Leslie Manns character ( just like in real life ) !!! No..... she doesn't., She plays the young Tik Tok star. Dennis Hoppers daughter Galen makes her screen debut in possibly one of the most pointless characters ever but she was fine I guess.
Both David Duchovny and Pedro Pascal looked hungover all the way through this film, which is fine as they were playing characters who were mainly hungover.
I like Karen Gillan and her character is fine, slightly dull, again often looked tired or hungover. The feeling I got is that the cast this during lockdown about filming during lockdown and just had a laugh making it under similar conditions the film was trying to portray.
It was all very tongue in cheek and often seemed quite ad-libbed.
I don't remember seeing Apatow in a cameo ?
At times the film has some laugh out loud moments, some mildly amusing moments, Silly moments and then some really missed the mark moments. You began to wonder where its all heading and kind of switch of a little but something keeps pulling you back into this ridiculous situation.
Its nothing ground breaking but it was fairly unique and a fun concept.
I should really be marking this a 6 but I got hooked in and enjoyed it so its a 6.5 or 7.
I'm not going to lie, the film is a bit all over the place, the pacing is either super fast or super slow and at times it seems like its going on forever. The film they are filming is silly and I guess this is what you might call a parody of the industry and Hollywood.
There are also a ton of Cameos, as expected from an Apatow film, this is however one of the less structured Apatow comedy's out there.
Strangely enough Leslie Mann is in this film...... who would have thought Eh. Whats that ???? Iris Apatow is in this film as well. Surely she plays the daughter of Leslie Manns character ( just like in real life ) !!! No..... she doesn't., She plays the young Tik Tok star. Dennis Hoppers daughter Galen makes her screen debut in possibly one of the most pointless characters ever but she was fine I guess.
Both David Duchovny and Pedro Pascal looked hungover all the way through this film, which is fine as they were playing characters who were mainly hungover.
I like Karen Gillan and her character is fine, slightly dull, again often looked tired or hungover. The feeling I got is that the cast this during lockdown about filming during lockdown and just had a laugh making it under similar conditions the film was trying to portray.
It was all very tongue in cheek and often seemed quite ad-libbed.
I don't remember seeing Apatow in a cameo ?
At times the film has some laugh out loud moments, some mildly amusing moments, Silly moments and then some really missed the mark moments. You began to wonder where its all heading and kind of switch of a little but something keeps pulling you back into this ridiculous situation.
Its nothing ground breaking but it was fairly unique and a fun concept.
I should really be marking this a 6 but I got hooked in and enjoyed it so its a 6.5 or 7.
Easily Apatow's worst film
Jeremy_Urquhart2 April 2022
Oh no, this is very bad.
I've enjoyed most of the other Judd Apatow films I've seen, and I really like some of the tv shows he's written for including Freaks and Geeks, Love, and Girls (I know some people hate that last one but I like it, sue me).
In telling the story of a troubled film production occurring during the pandemic, there's potential here, plus a lot of the cast have been funny in other films before. Movies about difficult or unconventional film shoots are often very entertaining, too.... but this won't join the ranks of Ed Wood, Be Kind Rewind, Living In Oblivion, The Disaster Artist, or Dolemite Is My Name; not by a long shot (if The Bubble looks intriguing to you, just watch any of those films instead. They're all much better).
This and a few COVID-era stand up specials (most notably Aziz Ansari's latest middling half-hour special) have shown that to make COVID funny, you have to make something really good, clever, or creative. It's becoming apparent that it's a hard subject to make funny. I don't think it's impossible to laugh at parts of it, but given its so recent and so many of us are still living through it, bad to average COVID-themed humour lands with more of a dull thud than bad to average regular humour.
Plus, it doesn't help that a lot of the jokes here that aren't particularly relevant to the pandemic are pretty toothless and boring. The banter just isn't funny- the semi-improvised sounding types of conversations that were funny in Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up just aren't funny here.
I smiled a little a couple of times, but when your comedy's over a couple of hours long, that's just not enough. I checked the time at one point, thinking I was a over halfway done, and I was less than 40 minutes in. I checked it again when I felt like there was half an hour left, and there was still 65 minutes to go.
It's not good. And it uses a terrible Miley Cyrus cover of Heart of Glass at one point, which was a bit offensive.
I've enjoyed most of the other Judd Apatow films I've seen, and I really like some of the tv shows he's written for including Freaks and Geeks, Love, and Girls (I know some people hate that last one but I like it, sue me).
In telling the story of a troubled film production occurring during the pandemic, there's potential here, plus a lot of the cast have been funny in other films before. Movies about difficult or unconventional film shoots are often very entertaining, too.... but this won't join the ranks of Ed Wood, Be Kind Rewind, Living In Oblivion, The Disaster Artist, or Dolemite Is My Name; not by a long shot (if The Bubble looks intriguing to you, just watch any of those films instead. They're all much better).
This and a few COVID-era stand up specials (most notably Aziz Ansari's latest middling half-hour special) have shown that to make COVID funny, you have to make something really good, clever, or creative. It's becoming apparent that it's a hard subject to make funny. I don't think it's impossible to laugh at parts of it, but given its so recent and so many of us are still living through it, bad to average COVID-themed humour lands with more of a dull thud than bad to average regular humour.
Plus, it doesn't help that a lot of the jokes here that aren't particularly relevant to the pandemic are pretty toothless and boring. The banter just isn't funny- the semi-improvised sounding types of conversations that were funny in Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up just aren't funny here.
I smiled a little a couple of times, but when your comedy's over a couple of hours long, that's just not enough. I checked the time at one point, thinking I was a over halfway done, and I was less than 40 minutes in. I checked it again when I felt like there was half an hour left, and there was still 65 minutes to go.
It's not good. And it uses a terrible Miley Cyrus cover of Heart of Glass at one point, which was a bit offensive.
After seeing the ratings it gets I must have a weird sense of humor because I liked it.
deloudelouvain8 June 2022
Well let me be the guy that found The Bubble to be funny. After reading the first page of reviews on here and looking at the poor ratings it gets I'm glad I had a different experience with this comedy. There are a lot of funny scenes, absurd sometimes but does everything has to be that serious all the time? They clearly made more than once fun of the pandemic and that was also nice to see there are still people that are not completely paranoid or just don't give a toss about the whole brainwashing we got. Plus the cast was very well chosen for this movie. I liked almost everybody if not everybody. They all did a good job, added something different to the story, and were all funny. I don't know if I have better weed than anybody else but I had a good time, and so did my wife who never has weed.
Usual one scorers
jamiekressinger3 April 2022
Ignore the usual one score reviews. Same people basically stating it's the same as some of the worse movies in history. Pathetic. It's pretty funny. Easy viewing but if your looking for story and Oscar performances then obviously this ain't the film.
Rest of you one scorers need to grow up a bit really. Your ruining the worth of the sites reviews.
Rest of you one scorers need to grow up a bit really. Your ruining the worth of the sites reviews.
Completely subverted my expectations
TheStorytellingCritic1 April 2022
This film was not what I had hoped for. It had big stars, an acclaimed comedy director and a promising premise but it just fell short on so many levels.
The premise is about a bunch of actors and a film crew trying to make a movie during the pandemic and it starts off quite strong. I chuckled here and there, the writing was tighter and it had relatability when it came to the pandemic stuff. That's where I have to give it points, the satire was decent here but that's the only place I can give it points.
The acting, cinematography, music was all okay, nothing unexpected and everyone does their job well here.
It was the writing and the pacing that really brings this film down. Around 75% into the first act all the way until the credits rolled, I found myself zoning in and out of the film. This film could have been a 90 minute film or even shorter. 2 hours dragged the whole thing out and it felt like a chore to finish the film just to get it done with. There was a tongue in cheek ending which kind of makes up for a little bit of this by being self aware but even still it was very lacklustre. The jokes became very flat and I found myself have 0 reaction to any of it. Even the comic relief character was decent but they were under used and taken out of the film quite early on.
Alongside this, the characters are all uninteresting and with the flat jokes and dragged out narrative, there's nothing really to keep you watching.
Overall the film starts of good then slowly delves into a long drag.
P. S. The choreographed dances were feel good..it was one of the few instances in the film that uplifted it alongside the welcome cameos.
The premise is about a bunch of actors and a film crew trying to make a movie during the pandemic and it starts off quite strong. I chuckled here and there, the writing was tighter and it had relatability when it came to the pandemic stuff. That's where I have to give it points, the satire was decent here but that's the only place I can give it points.
The acting, cinematography, music was all okay, nothing unexpected and everyone does their job well here.
It was the writing and the pacing that really brings this film down. Around 75% into the first act all the way until the credits rolled, I found myself zoning in and out of the film. This film could have been a 90 minute film or even shorter. 2 hours dragged the whole thing out and it felt like a chore to finish the film just to get it done with. There was a tongue in cheek ending which kind of makes up for a little bit of this by being self aware but even still it was very lacklustre. The jokes became very flat and I found myself have 0 reaction to any of it. Even the comic relief character was decent but they were under used and taken out of the film quite early on.
Alongside this, the characters are all uninteresting and with the flat jokes and dragged out narrative, there's nothing really to keep you watching.
Overall the film starts of good then slowly delves into a long drag.
P. S. The choreographed dances were feel good..it was one of the few instances in the film that uplifted it alongside the welcome cameos.
Just what is going on here
northernsoul-11 April 2022
The irony of this movie is that it's a bad movie within a very bad movie. Like, the fictional bad movie they're making is probably more entertaining than this one if it existed.
There is nothing funny in this. Nothing. Like literally not one funny line. Or funny scene. Every bit of dialog is stilted and you're waiting for a funny line; and it never happens.
There is nothing funny in this. Nothing. Like literally not one funny line. Or funny scene. Every bit of dialog is stilted and you're waiting for a funny line; and it never happens.
Don't waste your time
sameerakarunaratne1 April 2022
The joke is on us - a subpar Judd Apatow movie! [+40%]
arungeorge131 April 2022
Alright, let me break your bubble here.. I usually enjoy Judd Apatow's low-brow comedies, but this one reminds us of everything we hated about the early stages of the pandemic with added celebrity commentary. The humor didn't land for me most of the time, and even with a spectacular cast, the film never hits the highs you expect. It just gets by with a meandering screenplay that neither engages nor makes us root for any of its whiny, privileged characters. Well, Apatow's trying otherwise - he wants us to laugh at (and not with) everyone in the film industry dominated by corporate giants and larger-than-life characters. The pandemic was a bad phase, and no films needed to be made around that subject. Some fleeting flourishes aside (mostly from Pedro Pascal and a few cameos), The Bubble is honestly a letdown!
I'm... not really sure what's happening
shoobe01-18 April 2022
Not with the movie. Perfectly straightforward silly spoofy comedy. A tidge long in the middle, and probably could have been tightened up. Fred Armisen is a bit too much a skit-level character, who doesn't fully work. But otherwise just fine to rather good.
What I don't get is the abject hatred for it. I mean, almost a third of ratings on (one service) are 1, 2, or 3? That's... not a thing. Even for really, really bad dumb comedies, they don't get this low a rating.
I presume there's something like people who hate that this as one of the few projects to admit COVID exists driving it down? Not sure. But I am judgemental and hate lots of movies, this is just not that atrocious at all.
What I don't get is the abject hatred for it. I mean, almost a third of ratings on (one service) are 1, 2, or 3? That's... not a thing. Even for really, really bad dumb comedies, they don't get this low a rating.
I presume there's something like people who hate that this as one of the few projects to admit COVID exists driving it down? Not sure. But I am judgemental and hate lots of movies, this is just not that atrocious at all.
I want my two hours back!
robert-kroess1 April 2022
What a senseless movie with a script that sucks from the beginning to the end. Even worse, it's not funny at all - none of the pseudo-jokes ever fires.
Just stare for two hours at a white wall instead...it's the same level of entertainment.
Just stare for two hours at a white wall instead...it's the same level of entertainment.
Awful to be that one guy. But even worse to be his ghost.
G-Joshua-Benjamin3 April 2022
I stream stuff on Friday. I've not found a good movie in a few weeks. I saw this one and decided to give it a chance. I am so glad that I did.
The movie is about a group of actors who want to make another movie in a series they've worked on. But the pandemic is going on. They decided to do it anyway.
This is a very dry movie. I loved every second of it.
The actors are all great. Odd group to be in a movie together. But it works.
The comedy had me laughing out loud so many times. Some of the time I thought about the idea that the story was and just laughed at that.
It is such an odd movie. The stuff they do isn't something you would expect to find in a movie. It almost seems like a show or a play.
I understand why some don't like it. It is unique. It kind of reminds me of a movie Mel Brooks would make.
Just think of the situation. Laugh. It feels good.
I wish I could buy a special version on blu-ray. I also wish I had people I could watch it with. Haha.
The movie is about a group of actors who want to make another movie in a series they've worked on. But the pandemic is going on. They decided to do it anyway.
This is a very dry movie. I loved every second of it.
The actors are all great. Odd group to be in a movie together. But it works.
The comedy had me laughing out loud so many times. Some of the time I thought about the idea that the story was and just laughed at that.
It is such an odd movie. The stuff they do isn't something you would expect to find in a movie. It almost seems like a show or a play.
I understand why some don't like it. It is unique. It kind of reminds me of a movie Mel Brooks would make.
Just think of the situation. Laugh. It feels good.
I wish I could buy a special version on blu-ray. I also wish I had people I could watch it with. Haha.
The Bubble
henry8-33 April 2022
A group of so-so actors who have made the dinosaur franchise 'Cliff Beasts' come to a lavish English hotel to make the sixth mostly green screen instalment whilst locked down from COVID. The studio take extreme steps to keep them filming come what may whilst the cast go slowly mad.
Whilst there is much to dislike here - lots of characteristic Apatow shouting and waffling interminable rubbish that means nothing, I kinda liked this. It's a good cast with stand out comic performances for me by David Duchovny, Pedro Pascal and the ever wonderful Peter Serafinowicz. In addition if you listen and watch carefully enough there are some scenes and off the cuff remarks that lean more towards the biting satire on actors, current film audiences and Hollywood that this needed to be and at those times this is genuinely funny. You need to be tolerant around the piles of rubbish, but in the right mood this is a sweet and quite fun movie.
Whilst there is much to dislike here - lots of characteristic Apatow shouting and waffling interminable rubbish that means nothing, I kinda liked this. It's a good cast with stand out comic performances for me by David Duchovny, Pedro Pascal and the ever wonderful Peter Serafinowicz. In addition if you listen and watch carefully enough there are some scenes and off the cuff remarks that lean more towards the biting satire on actors, current film audiences and Hollywood that this needed to be and at those times this is genuinely funny. You need to be tolerant around the piles of rubbish, but in the right mood this is a sweet and quite fun movie.
An insider film indusrty farce
wctrout20 April 2022
A decent comedy with some genuinely funny banter
wlee083 April 2022
It's no secret this movie is getting poorly reviewed, so I guess I went into it expecting a turkey and was surprised to find a witty and relevant script. Almost every line in the movie has something humourous and clever so you might find yourself hitting the rewind here and there to catch the innuendos. It's definitely a bit muddled, choppy, and has no clear direction, but that doesn't mean you won't enjoy being lost in the absurdity. Getting lost might be the overall theme here - we've become individually and collectively isolated during the pandemic, and confused by the rules, as we confront our own mental stability and witness the shifting values of society.
Unfunny slog of a film
cardsrock13 April 2022
Seeing the stars in this and the writer/director it came from, I'm honestly stunned at how bad this was. The Bubble is an extremely tedious watch that has almost no genuine comedy in it. About an hour in, I realized the film must be close to over, but nope. There was over an hour more of the same jokes and same setting left to suffer through. It tries to be self-aware, however the ultimate irony is Judd Apatow casting his wife and daughter in this film while simultaneously trying to lambast how ridiculous Hollywood is.
Don't waste your time
lujk-790805 April 2022
No real story line, doesn't really go anywhere, ending is weird and doesn't make sense? Waste of 2 hours that I won't get back.
Some good actors that have taken on a really shit film, would not recommend unless you want some background noise to fall asleep to.
Some good actors that have taken on a really shit film, would not recommend unless you want some background noise to fall asleep to.
An overlong behind the scenes comedy for the COVD era that sports a few amusing moments, but not to the standards of the cast and crew
IonicBreezeMachine1 April 2022
Following the critical and box office failure of her vehicle, Jerusalem Uprising, Carol Cobb (Karen Gillan) returns to the dinosaur action franchise Cliff Beasts for the sixth installment. Due to the COVD pandemic production is set up in a "bubble" in England where Carol and the other actors will live together to prevent any infections. As producer Gavin (Peter Serafinowicz) impotently tries to rein in negative publicity, on set tensions, and vices of the cast, the initially planned three month shoot gets extended again and again.
Cliff Beasts is the latest film from director Judd Apatow who also writes the film alongside Pam Brady best known for her work with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker on the first three seasons of South Park, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, as well as Team America: World Police. The COVD pandemic has inspired a number of films attempting to capitalize on the pandemic ranging from Steven Soderbergh's surprisingly good Kimi, to slapdash productions like Songbird and Locked, and bottom of the barrel schlock like Corona: Fear is a Virus or The Covid Killer, however comedies have yet to tap into the genre save for outliers like NBC's short lived Connected or Freeform's Love in the Time of Corona both of which didn't particularly resonate with audiences. I think because of the nature of the pandemic it's been difficult to put any sort of comedic spin on the material especially in regards to the real world insanity and stupidity that doesn't lend itself all that well to exaggeration. With a strong cast of comedians and noted creative forces behind the camera The Bubble is possibly the biggest COVD film we've seen yet and has the makings of something truly insightful, but at a little over two hours long and filled with abrasive characters The Bubble has some moments of humor but as a whole doesn't come together.
Like other comedies that have attempted to approach the COVD pandemic, Apatow runs into the issue of having to create comic chaos in a place where everything is very controlled and structured and that rigidity ends up working against the talents of the cast as there's long sequences where they're forced to be by themselves or maybe with one other person and we really don't get the best environment for creating comic friction. Karen Gillan is our lead Carol Cobb and she's a fine actress with a strong repertoire of work, but her main gimmick is basically just taking very casual abuse from the cast, crew, and even her boyfriend who dumps her over video conferencing and continues to live in her house with a random waitress. The worst thing you can do in a comedy is make us feel sorry for the characters and that's what happens as we for the most part as we watch relationships deteriorate and egos clash and you feel like you're trapped with these people with no escape. Eventually when the movie becomes a bonkers "escape" film in the final 20 minutes it becomes a little funnier and gets more energy, but after two hours it's too little too late and it doesn't make up for all the floundering gags and dead spots littered throughout the move. Even the Cliff Beasts sequences which parody the Jurassic World films (even down to using similar font) aren't all that funny or engaging and it doesn't feel like Apatow's approach to this kind of satire has evolved since 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall where he took a similar approach to cookie cutter crime procedurals with Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime. The Cliff Beasts segments aren't silly enough to be all that funny and they also never feel like a true approximation of the box office crap The Bubble is poking fun at, and frankly when you have serious blockbusters like Moonfall that are far more insane and funnier than anything in The Bubble it undercuts whatever satire might've been attempted.
The Bubble is unfortunately not up to the standards of its talented cast and crew. While there are brief bits of comic insanity sprinkled throughout, they're undone by an overly long runtime and the restrictive nature of the premise so the movie never really fires off. Maybe if this had been framed as a mockumentary it could've used the awkwardness and isolation more effectively, in fact the documentary film within a film Beasts of the Bubble looks like a much more entertaining film by comparison. Some good moments, but not enough for me to recommend it.
Cliff Beasts is the latest film from director Judd Apatow who also writes the film alongside Pam Brady best known for her work with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker on the first three seasons of South Park, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, as well as Team America: World Police. The COVD pandemic has inspired a number of films attempting to capitalize on the pandemic ranging from Steven Soderbergh's surprisingly good Kimi, to slapdash productions like Songbird and Locked, and bottom of the barrel schlock like Corona: Fear is a Virus or The Covid Killer, however comedies have yet to tap into the genre save for outliers like NBC's short lived Connected or Freeform's Love in the Time of Corona both of which didn't particularly resonate with audiences. I think because of the nature of the pandemic it's been difficult to put any sort of comedic spin on the material especially in regards to the real world insanity and stupidity that doesn't lend itself all that well to exaggeration. With a strong cast of comedians and noted creative forces behind the camera The Bubble is possibly the biggest COVD film we've seen yet and has the makings of something truly insightful, but at a little over two hours long and filled with abrasive characters The Bubble has some moments of humor but as a whole doesn't come together.
Like other comedies that have attempted to approach the COVD pandemic, Apatow runs into the issue of having to create comic chaos in a place where everything is very controlled and structured and that rigidity ends up working against the talents of the cast as there's long sequences where they're forced to be by themselves or maybe with one other person and we really don't get the best environment for creating comic friction. Karen Gillan is our lead Carol Cobb and she's a fine actress with a strong repertoire of work, but her main gimmick is basically just taking very casual abuse from the cast, crew, and even her boyfriend who dumps her over video conferencing and continues to live in her house with a random waitress. The worst thing you can do in a comedy is make us feel sorry for the characters and that's what happens as we for the most part as we watch relationships deteriorate and egos clash and you feel like you're trapped with these people with no escape. Eventually when the movie becomes a bonkers "escape" film in the final 20 minutes it becomes a little funnier and gets more energy, but after two hours it's too little too late and it doesn't make up for all the floundering gags and dead spots littered throughout the move. Even the Cliff Beasts sequences which parody the Jurassic World films (even down to using similar font) aren't all that funny or engaging and it doesn't feel like Apatow's approach to this kind of satire has evolved since 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall where he took a similar approach to cookie cutter crime procedurals with Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime. The Cliff Beasts segments aren't silly enough to be all that funny and they also never feel like a true approximation of the box office crap The Bubble is poking fun at, and frankly when you have serious blockbusters like Moonfall that are far more insane and funnier than anything in The Bubble it undercuts whatever satire might've been attempted.
The Bubble is unfortunately not up to the standards of its talented cast and crew. While there are brief bits of comic insanity sprinkled throughout, they're undone by an overly long runtime and the restrictive nature of the premise so the movie never really fires off. Maybe if this had been framed as a mockumentary it could've used the awkwardness and isolation more effectively, in fact the documentary film within a film Beasts of the Bubble looks like a much more entertaining film by comparison. Some good moments, but not enough for me to recommend it.
Underrated
javierwinstondiaz12 March 2023
As I'm writing this review The Bubble is sitting at 4.7 out of 10. That's the kind of score that usually tells you that you should give a film a miss, but I'd encourage you to ignore that and give this one a chance. It's not the kind of movie that's going to change your life but I legitimately found it had some good laughs in there.
I'm not sure why it's rated so low... Perhaps, as another reviewer who enjoyed the film postulated, I just have a weird sense of humour that made me like it when others didn't. Or maybe it's the memories of the early days of the pandemic that this brings back, causing a negative reaction. I don't know, all I know is I enjoyed this and you might too.
I'm not sure why it's rated so low... Perhaps, as another reviewer who enjoyed the film postulated, I just have a weird sense of humour that made me like it when others didn't. Or maybe it's the memories of the early days of the pandemic that this brings back, causing a negative reaction. I don't know, all I know is I enjoyed this and you might too.
Couldn't watch the whole film
beckyash1 April 2022
I had to turn this film off half way through, I was really excited to watch it thinking it would be good but after an hour there didn't seem to be any structure to the movie. Yeah laughed maybe twice! The cast is good but that is it, it felt like it went on and on and on. Bored is an understatement.
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