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The Bubble. R Released Apr 1, 2022 2h 6m Comedy TRAILER for List. 20% Tomatometer 119 Reviews 30% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings. A comedy about a group of actors and actresses stuck inside a pandemic ...
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Apr 1, 2022 · Judd Apatow’s “The Bubble,” filmed at Shepperton Studios, satirizes this entire well-known event with a light-hearted attitude. Structured in loosely connected episodes (where entire sub-plots could be removed without impacting the whole), “The Bubble” is often quite funny but—at a little over two hours long—there are sections where it drags or flounders.
That’s the question posed by Judd Apatow’s The Bubble, a Netflix comedy about movie stars shooting a blockbuster during one. It joins a small, mostly undignified array of films that have tried ...
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Posted: Apr 1, 2022 7:05 pm
The Bubble premieres Friday, April 1 on Netflix.
Boasting an impressive cast of seriously hilarious folks, Judd Apatow's The Bubble unleashes the lunacy of preening actors attempting to star in the sixth installment of a dino-war franchise, toiling through an absurd production during the pandemic. The "bubble" is the hotel and movie set that everyone working on Cliff Beasts 6 is confined to, though the meta-comedy aspects at work here, in which Hollywood attempts to take the piss out of Hollywood, also constitutes an ideological bubble in its own right. Filled with sublime talent, and some solidly silly moments, The Bubble is still overlong and requires spending a bit too much time with an ensemble of selfish dopes.
As the cast of this in-movie knock on Jurassic Park -- which is not just due to the dinosaur premise but also Jurassic Park: Dominion's unprecedented 18-month production -- find themselves trapped in a seemingly endless loop of lockdowns, rewrites, and other sanity-testing hiccups, the story wears thin. The "stir crazy" elements seep into real-life viewing and make for a somewhat repetitive watch. Despite there being a dozen characters on different story arcs, they're all in some regard cut from the same egomaniac cloth and so the overall gag never changes.
Starring Karen Gillan, Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal, and a slew of others, The Bubble feels like an overwrought counterpoint to Gal Gadot's poorly received pandemic-era rendition of "Imagine," with Apatow wanting to play around with the tone-deaf underbelly of the movie business. It's nothing we haven't seen before though, and on top of that, the fun wears off fast when big movies are made about how dumb it is that big movies get made. It's as if the messaging is "most actors, directors, and producers are awful -- but not us! That's why we can make fun of it." Yes, it's likely this collection of comedy folk is also poking fun at themselves too, but there's still a "them, not us" vibe.
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The cast's production and hotel support staff consist of Maria Bakalova (Oscar-nominated for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick), Vir Das (Whiskey Cavalier), Harry Trevaldwyn, and Samson Kayo -- with fun cameos by John Cena, Maria Bamford, Daisy Ridley, Kate McKinnon, and more thrown in for good measure. Again, this is a super-talented team, and there's a comfort food element at work seeing them all be ridiculous together -- as flying dinos rampage and blood, vomit, and carnage run rampant on and off set -- but often The Bubble's messaging is muddled. These characters all convince themselves that they're humanitarians because Cliff Beasts 6 is what the world needs to feel good, while The Bubble, in its own right, thinks what the world needs is the movie business taking a hyper-specific swipe at itself.
Self-deprecation can still be a vanity project, in its own way, so in that regard, The Bubble is no better than the Hollywood shallowness it's sending up. The film digs around in a meta sandbox, though running too long while being about a cursed production that never ends probably wasn't meant to be a gag. This aside, the big, impressive cast is wi...
6/10. Tropic Thunder did it Better. solojere 5 April 2022. The Bubble follows a group of actors trying to make a movie in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic. However, things go awry, and the actors find themselves suck in a nightmare scenario that seems like it is meant to be a satire of the film industry.
The Bubble is a 2022 American comedy film directed by Judd Apatow from a screenplay co-written with Pam Brady. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Karen Gillan , Vir Das , Pedro Pascal , Iris Apatow , Fred Armisen , Maria Bakalova , David Duchovny , Keegan-Michael Key , Leslie Mann , Kate McKinnon , Guz Khan , Peter Serafinowicz and Harry Trevaldwyn .
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The Bubble review: A dreadful pandemic dud from Judd Apatow. Karen Gillan and Pedro Pascal's dire new Netflix comedy is a contender for worst film of the year so far. Patrick Cremona. Published ...
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