Bubble Boy

Bubble Boy

2001 "Life is an adventure. Don't blow it."
Bubble Boy
Bubble Boy

Bubble Boy

5.7 | 1h24m | PG-13 | en | Adventure

Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy – bubble suit and all – treks cross-country to stop her.

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5.7 | 1h24m | PG-13 | en | Adventure , Comedy , Romance | More Info
Released: August. 24,2001 | Released Producted By: Bandeira Entertainment , Touchstone Pictures Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy – bubble suit and all – treks cross-country to stop her.

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Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal , Swoosie Kurtz , Marley Shelton

Director

Christa Munro

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Bandeira Entertainment , Touchstone Pictures

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alexandriabenford This movie is pure comedy. A whole bunch of crazy adventures and hilarious characters surface as a guy explores the world outside of his home. It incorporates love, comedy and self-discovery and is a symbolic reminder to not allow yourself to remain trapped in society's bubble they create for you, but to explore, laugh, love and discover all that life has to offer.
niagaratmf I only endured this movie as it was playing in the Cardio Theatre of my gym. The absolutely ridiculous plot seemed to have been written by a group of friends sitting around drunk or stoned telling each other their ideas are hilarious. Amazing how those jokes ring hollow when you are sober! The attempts at satire are totally off the mark and the direct attempt at humor are worse. Perhaps the only really truly "funny part" of the movie comes when Jimmy bounces into a dive quick stop and the prototypical cute Midwestern girl behind the counter smiles at him and you think, "oh, here comes the nice girl to help him out in some way" and she turns out to be robbing the store. Cute bit. Wasted here. Avoid this one at all costs. I'm sure the actors regret everything about it save the paycheck.
Boba_Fett1138 Make no illusions about it, this by no means is a great movie but it at least really knows how to be fun and entertain.Key to this movie is not to take it serious at all. It actually is being one crazy and silly movie, that really doesn't feature that much story and the little story that it does feature is incredibly flawed and badly written once you start to analyze it too seriously, which you really just shouldn't do.As a comedy this movie certainly does not fail. It made me laugh and I enjoyed watching the movie throughout. You might think this is being just a one joke movie about a boy living in a bubble but the movie manages to come up with plenty of fun and original stuff. As bad as the script and story are, the comical situations and dialog are all still well written and executed. Seems weird that director Blair Hayes never had a career after this movie, since he seems far more talented than the majority of modern comedy directors these days.It's basically a movie in which often a lot of random crazy stuff is happening. And this is also one of the more bad things about the movie I think. The movie is really hanging together from its coincidences and decides to simply go along with it all, purely in the interest of its comedy but it instead more comes across as some lazy and very simplistic film-making. The movie still works out well for most part but at others it just becomes too silly and even somewhat embarrassing to watch. But luckily it never really starts to annoy, or anything like that because the movie is just simply being too short for that.It's also a movie that is hanging together from its lots of random cameos. But I actually sort of like that about this movie and actually seems to fit the style of the movie. Probably reason why I like the cameos is because the movie doesn't feature any cameos from well known comedians but more from cult figures, such as Beetlejuice and Fabio and some up and rising comedians, such as Zach Galifianakis, who at the time still was pretty much an unknown in the film industry.But also the main characters and actors are being really good and enjoyable in this movie. Jake Gyllenhaal is actually genuinely good and fun in this early comical role by him and in contrast with the movies he wants to be associated with these days. I'm secretly hoping he'll someday return to silly comedies.Despite all of the complaints, this still remains a perfectly watchable and fun little comedy.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
super_blonde_bitch I love Bubble Boy i think it is a really great film full of silly humour which always makes me laugh. I think Jake Gyllenhaal is great in it and plays jimmy really well also swoozie Kurts is fabulous as his mother. I love the journey that jimmy takes just to get the girl he loves and make her marry him instead of her idiot boyfriend. All the people that jimmy meets are fantastic and in all the ways they help him and all the different advice that they give him is great but also very funny at times. I love the character Jimmy he is so sweat and innocent and very gullible at times, but he is also very brave in the story leaving the only world he knows to go into one he has only seen from his window. I think the characters are all great and the story is very funny bubble boy is one of my favourites.