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Bubble Boy (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 58

Bubble Boy bounces along with lame, offensive jokes that are more tasteless than funny.

Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 14

Bubble Boy bounces along with lame, offensive jokes that are more tasteless than funny.

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Movie Info

Jake Gyllenhaal, the young star of the critically well-received October Sky (1999), follows up that film with this offbeat comedy. Gyllenhaal stars as Jimmy Livingston, a teenager with an immune system deficiency who has spent his entire life living in a plastic bubble under the doting, overprotective care of his mother (Swoosie Kurtz). Jimmy is in love with his next-door neighbor Chloe (Marley Shelton), so when he learns that she has left for Niagara Falls in order to be married, he's

PG-13, 1 hr. 24 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Blair Hayes (II) , Blair Hayes

Written By: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio

In Theaters: Aug 24, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Jan 15, 2002

Box Office:$4.2M

Touchstone Pictures

Hayes shows a deft touch with both cartoony slapstick and character-based comedy and manages to create moments of real poignancy in between.

January 6, 2002 Comment

Dan Via

Washington Post

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Seldom has a more misguided movie escaped from a major studio than Touchstone's Bubble Boy.

August 31, 2001 Comment

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

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This amazingly tasteless, gross-out comedy is full of cruel jokes, stupid characters, schmaltzy sentimentality and situations that make no sense.

August 31, 2001 Comment

Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

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Hollywood monstrosities all, and boy are they scary!

August 28, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Nick Rutigliano

Village Voice

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After enduring only a few minutes of this shrill debacle, you'll feel more trapped in the theater than Jimmy is by his bubble.

August 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Bruce Fretts

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Certainly the meanest-spirited film ever associated with the Disney hallmark.

August 24, 2001 Comment

Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Top Critic

The film is only sporadically funny, and it's frequently in poor taste, but it's got energy to spare, and Gyllenhaal's performance gives it a soul.

December 11, 2007 Full Review Source: All Movie Guide

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Josh Ralske

All Movie Guide

Bubble Boy is a strange, bizarre, twisted romantic comedy.

December 17, 2002 Full Review Source: About.com

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Rebecca Murray

About.com

...the most anti-human movie to surface since Showgirls.

July 30, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

O personagem-t�tulo n�o � apenas sem gra�a, mas tamb�m chato.

May 30, 2002 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena

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Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

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Life is an adventure. Don't blow it.Cool good movie! This movie was as good as it was funny, perfect balance. It's kinda short but it's enough to be a blast. The story is very good and fun and you can't help but laugh at the different parts of Bubble Boy's journey. Great family film.On his way to save his love from

November 3, 2008

Manu Gino

Super Reviewer

Jake Gyllenhaal as a comedic superstar. This is a really funny movie, but it's also got a really good message about living life and taking risks. While it's sort've a spoof of Boy in the Plastic Bubble, it's very much its own movie with a slightly similar concept. The nutjob characters are great, especially the

October 17, 2010

Conner Rainwater

Super Reviewer

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