Critic Reviews

Playfully quirky film takes equal-time potshots at its many easy targets -- fundamentalism, intolerance, ethnic stereotypes.

The bubble-kid moms can whine all they want, but Bubble Boy is a liberated movie --liberated from tastefulness, of course, but also from logic, suffering, consequence, and temperance.

It's a shame if the controversy surrounding Bubble Boy distracts people from what a smart, subversive, and genuinely good-hearted film it is.

This movie has a sweetness at its core.

When it clicks, the picture should shock you into laughter -- enough to make you wish it were better and applaud its efforts anyway.

Bubble Boy simply has the gall to make light of one of the last untouchable left in America: disease.

This is a semi-mean-spirited movie; had it remained that way, it could have redeemed itself.

It's hardly original and rarely laugh-out-loud funny -- the filmmakers constantly fall back on the sight of bounding balloon Jimmy squeezing his way out of one situation after another.

There's always been room for rudeness in humor. In fact, it can be invigorating. But Bubble Boy goes through the motions of being outrageous when all it's really got is a rage to conform to formula.

Belongs to that genre of movie that works hard to achieve a certain twisted and demented wit.