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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Roger Ebert called this film a "masterpiece". I value his opinion, but I have to disagree in this case.I would call Bubble a game experiment. Director Soderbergh uses non-actors, and films them in their own environs. He gives us a story that involves little action, comedy or drama. Then he sits back and waits to see if we might be entertained or provoked by the work.Bubble is kind of like a whodunit, but it is not one. It is kind of like a love triangle, but it is not one. Soderbergh's main characters lead lives of muffled surrender in an economically depressed small-town area (played by Belpre, OH and Parkersburg, WV--areas I know well). Another character moves into the area, representing an outside viewpoint and a modicum of gumption. You can practically hear the town and its people oxidizing. The new girl, Rose, is someone who hopes to escape the area. But none of the characters are people you would want to know. So how much can we care about what happens to them? The story must be about the situation and its economic underpinnings, but the story diverts us from that viewpoint, also.You might wonder why it's called "Bubble". The main characters work in a doll factory. As the final credits roll, we see some defective doll heads, with bubbles in the rubber. Without giving any of the plot away, this might suggest that the story is about defects within individuals' psyches.In the end, I think Soderbergh's noble experiment fell flat. There is not enough here to interest the average viewer.

This chilling film about life at the margins is pitch-perfect. Many of the scenes are reminiscent of Alec Soth's brilliant, compelling photographs of America today, where people wander through their lives, listless and unfocused, seemingly stranded, struggling to stay afloat. Yet rather than feeling repulsed, we relate to their vulnerability and loneliness: They are us. In many ways this is a photographer's movie. It also reminded me of Zoe Strauss' "America", and of Sarah Stolfa's "The Regulars". Yet Coleman Hough's words take these images to another level. Her story is a dark reminder of what poverty and hopelessness do to us; the damage done, both spiritually and materially, by a life with no future, no dreams, a life smothered in worries. "Bubble" reminds me of a movie made during the Great Depression, William Wellman's "Wild Boys of the Road". Capitalism benefits a few, very well, and it destroys most of us, very effectively and efficiently.

One of the worst movies I have seen in some time. I have liked Sodebergh, which is why I rented Bubble, but I feel like he has robbed 73 minutes of my life tonight. I can see what he was trying to do - setting a pretty depressing mood in nowheres-ville, no hope state - but the dialogue didn't have to be that bad and the acting didn't have to be so excruciating. Even the music was unbearable. The worst part is: it was all intentional. Don't get me wrong: I am all for a good downer of a movie. I enjoy directors trying to expose the reality of the lives of people just trying to scrape by but this is an insult to those people.

Bubble is a shockingly brilliant record of our time. I voted it a nine. How could it get an R rating for "language" though? There's little harsh language. I'm thinking that the ratings people were shocked and upset with the harshly real portrait of the banal life so many Americans are forced to lead due to the double edged sword of an economic system/culture that exploits so many workers while inundating them with consumerist mentality. People holding down multiple jobs without any hope of ever "getting ahead." All work, little play - with little else to do other than watch television if there is free time. This is a harsh movie because it is such a clear depiction of the hopelessness that many youth are headed for. Imagine the consequences if they are allowed to see it?