Tuesday, 17 June 2025

BITE SIZED: The Bubble (Judd Apatow, 2022)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the sequel to a major blockbuster enters production.


To ensure the health of everyone/keep production going, the cast and crew are cloistered in a palatial estate.



I started watching this movie because I was considering doing a review series on Judd Apatow’s directorial career.


What a terrible idea. 


Not the miniseries - starting by watching this.


The movie is a waste of two hours. A waste of its cast. A waste of its concept.


I do not think satire works with scale and polish, particularly when it is made by people with access to all the toys of big budget studio filmmaking.


Are these the people to puncture the thing that they are a part of?


Especially when the chief creative has a long term relationship with the studio (Universal) behind the movie (Jurassic World Dominion) they are riffing off of?


There is a vague story centred around the self-centred cast, but it drags everything out to the point where any decent comic ideas are left to flounder.


A sad, bloated nothing.


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