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Great Film overall

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

One afternoon I was working when I received a phone call from my 8 year old daughter. My first thought was is she hurt? Is Mom alright? She had just finished watching Bubble Boy the Movie just shown on Comedy Central.A few weeks earlier I told her about the movie how stupid it was and if you get the chance watch it. Let me backup and explain how I caught this quirky adventure. I'm channel surfing through my TV one rainy afternoon. Something caught my eye. I'm watching a boy in a giant bubble running through the desert. Here we go, I have to see how this movie turns out. Born without an immune system Our star Jimmy (Jake Gyllenhaal) has a life long crush on his next store neighbor Chloe (Marley Shelton) under the objection of his Vexatious Mother played by Swoozie Kurtz who was a real scene stealer in this comical farce of the underdog against ridiculous odds. Some of the dialogue from Mrs. Livingston is side splitting especially the phony ransom note scene. Our Boy takes off on an unbelievable road trip across the country giant bubble covering and all. Jimmy runs into a biker in need and a cult figure along the way to Niagara falls where Jimmy has to halt the wedding of his true love Chloe. Continuity is out of control. Political correctness is never present and the laws of Physics don't apply. Just sit back and absorb a comedy of infantile stupidity. It all works for me as the result was laugh out loud humor. In this age of Hollywood movies where remakes are the norm plus more and more Batman/Superman movies spit out like potato chips at an office party, it's refreshing to see a few writers think outside the box or should I say BUBBLE?

Just keep me away from comedies released in 2001. The same year such bold franchises as Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings began we were fed indigestible trash such as The Animal, Black Knight, Corky Romano, Freddy Got Fingered, Joe Dirt, and, now, Bubble Boy. Gazing through the filmography of 2001, I think I've covered many of the bad comedies of that year, albeit a few honorable mentions such as Tomcats and Zoolander. I think after the aforementioned titles, however, I need a good cleansing.Bubble Boy is based off of the 1976 TV-movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, starring John Travolta and Robert Reed, which potentially offered a sympathetic look at the idea of a person possessing a poor immune system, meaning any encounter with a germ or a foreign substance of the body could be potentially fatal. However, in Blair Hayes' Bubble Boy, the material is effectively cheapened into a low-rent comedy about, of course, the same premise, except taken in an extreme case where Christian-Conservative parents keep their immunodeficient son locked away in a bubble in his room for a good twenty years. Inevitably, despite the mother's incessant converting and brainwashing, Jimmy Livingston (Jake Gyllenhaal) notices that a dashing young blonde named Chloe (Marley Shelton) has just moved in next door but his mother will have none of it.Jimmy and Chloe begin hang out in secrecy, with her coming up through his window on a daily basis to hang out, watch Land of the Lost (the only show Jimmy is allowed to watch), and just have a good time with each other. The suspension of disbelief that is necessary to believe a privileged, gorgeous blonde would give this amiable but sheltered boy any time of day is beyond my mental-capability, but I digress. Eventually, she finds some punk-rock buffoon she falls in love with and decides to pack up and leave for Niagara Falls to get married. Jimmy, already burdened by the inability to leave his bubble, decides to detach himself and travel to Niagara Falls to stop Chloe before she says "I do." Except, you know, he's kind of in a bubble, so there's difficulty in that.The film follows the basic but oh-so monotonous formula of staging a comedic scene that mainly emphasizes how difficult or obtrusive life on the outside for sheltered Jimmy is because of his annoying bubble followed by a montage set to generic nineties rock and roll. The Jimmy character, who looks like a black-haired version of Stephen Baldwin's character from Bio-Dome, is also given a kiddish accent to go along with his sheltered personality, in an efforts to make an inherently innocent character all the more intolerable. I couldn't figure out what was more incredulous in the long run - the fact that Chloe sees something in Jimmy or that Jimmy manages to get bounced around enough in this film that he doesn't ever pop.Bubble Boy falls into an onslaught of road movie clichés, with director Hayes and the writing duo Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio constantly trying to concoct the most cockamamie scenario possible. Would you believe Jimmy gets thrown into the clutches of a ruthless cult led by popular model Fabio, put under the wing of a fearless biker played by Danny Trejo, lead through a circus of freaks run by Verne Troyer, and befriended by the most stereotypical Indian character American cinema has ever seen (his name is "Pushpop" for Christ's sake)? The issue with Bubble Boy is the same issue with many of the Adam Sandler films, for it gives us a ridiculous character that is difficult to side with in an implausible circumstance with many jokes falling flat and tacking on an ending which just seems borderline unacceptable in the long run. This is sad because Gyllenhaal is a terrible thing to waste and the filmmakers here found many ways to do just that.Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, Verne Troyer, Fabio, and Brian George. Directed by: Blair Hayes.

Make no illusions about it, this by no means is a great movie but it at least really knows how to be fun and entertain.Key to this movie is not to take it serious at all. It actually is being one crazy and silly movie, that really doesn't feature that much story and the little story that it does feature is incredibly flawed and badly written once you start to analyze it too seriously, which you really just shouldn't do.As a comedy this movie certainly does not fail. It made me laugh and I enjoyed watching the movie throughout. You might think this is being just a one joke movie about a boy living in a bubble but the movie manages to come up with plenty of fun and original stuff. As bad as the script and story are, the comical situations and dialog are all still well written and executed. Seems weird that director Blair Hayes never had a career after this movie, since he seems far more talented than the majority of modern comedy directors these days.It's basically a movie in which often a lot of random crazy stuff is happening. And this is also one of the more bad things about the movie I think. The movie is really hanging together from its coincidences and decides to simply go along with it all, purely in the interest of its comedy but it instead more comes across as some lazy and very simplistic film-making. The movie still works out well for most part but at others it just becomes too silly and even somewhat embarrassing to watch. But luckily it never really starts to annoy, or anything like that because the movie is just simply being too short for that.It's also a movie that is hanging together from its lots of random cameos. But I actually sort of like that about this movie and actually seems to fit the style of the movie. Probably reason why I like the cameos is because the movie doesn't feature any cameos from well known comedians but more from cult figures, such as Beetlejuice and Fabio and some up and rising comedians, such as Zach Galifianakis, who at the time still was pretty much an unknown in the film industry.But also the main characters and actors are being really good and enjoyable in this movie. Jake Gyllenhaal is actually genuinely good and fun in this early comical role by him and in contrast with the movies he wants to be associated with these days. I'm secretly hoping he'll someday return to silly comedies.Despite all of the complaints, this still remains a perfectly watchable and fun little comedy.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I'm not leaping over puddles for this one. I love Jake Gyllenhaal and though he does a good job, the movie sucks. I'm sorry to those who like it. That's fine if you. But it's just not my cup of tea. There were some good parts, just like there is for most movies. But over all I didn't find all that many. Normally I would say if you haven't see it yet, to go so and see it, but not this time. So if you haven't seen it, count your blessings and don't. And you have, good for you, especially for you liked it or thought it was okay. It is my overall opinion that the movie is not that good. And that's okay for me to say so too.It is not a movie that I would recommend.