Movie Review: The Bubble
By @edent
· Movie Review · 1 comment · 200 words · read ~137 times.
Is this the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time? No. Did it have me laughing from start to finish? Yes!
Want to know how good it is? Karen Gillan is the only actor in the world who can make me howl with laughter while she's out of focus! Seriously.
OK, it isn't exactly original - get a bunch of famous mates to play up to stereotype and take the piss out of themselves. I don't care, it works brilliantly. It perfectly weaves in the British and American casts. Although Guz Khan is shamefully underused.
And, yeah, it is a bit traumatic to relive some of the worst aspects of lockdown. And, OK, it is a wee bit self-indulgent and nepotistic with the celebrity cameos.
It is a film that says absolutely nothing about the human condition, it doesn't move the art form on one iota, there's nothing innovative, scandalous, or intellectually taxing about it. But it is relentlessly funny. Every scene has something going on that will make you giggle, snort, or guffaw.
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mike says:
My big problem with this film is that Karen Gillan plays an American. Nothing about her character necessitates being American. Her Scottish accent is perfectly intelligible to non-Scottish people. There's plenty of actual Americans in the film. Having Karen Gillan pretend to be American means the makers actively decided against having some casual diversity in their film in favour of one more American accent. (No, I'm not Scottish. 😉 )