Judd Apatow's ensemble pandemic comedy, 'The Bubble,' puts the director's worst instincts on display.
As Judd Apatow became one of the most important figures in comedy in the 21st century, be it through producing films like Bridesmaids and Superbad, or writing and directing his own films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, plenty of criticisms started to pop up about his work.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY As the COVID-19 pandemic looms over film productions, The Bubble has the stars of the 23rd biggest action franchise of all time—Cliff Beasts—reuniting for the sixth installment. The cast and crew get together on a closed film set in England, and after fourteen days of quarantine, begin to film the newest film in the Cliff Beasts saga.
But with The Bubble, Apatow is at his least interesting as a comedy writer, with pandemic jokes that already feel exhausted, and parodies of showbiz that are fairly obvious. Especially with a project that he has directed, The Bubble is more on the rails than what we expect from Apatow, and even with his most cluttered scripts, they have his effective utilization of heart to fall back on—which The Bubble simply doesn’t have.
Yet despite the mostly tired jokes and a slapdash way of putting a story together, The Bubble does have its moments. Pascal as Dieter is gleefully over-the-top and one of the few characters that is allowed to embrace the insanity of the situation Apatow has created. On that note, some of The Bubble’s best moments are when Apatow does let these actors play off each other, but puts a structure in place.
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