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A failed but likeable pandemic comedy that worked for me more than its reputation suggests, mainly because it does not take itself seriously. The premise is funny: actors trapped in a luxury health bubble trying to shoot the sixth film in a ridiculous flying-dinosaur franchise. It is silly, messy and far too long, but some of its nonsense made me laugh. The cast helps a lot: Karen Gillan, Pedro Pascal, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann, Fred Armisen and Maria Bakalova all seem willing to look ridiculous, and Pedro Pascal in particular understands the tone. The satire of franchise filmmaking, celebrity egos, protocols, video calls and pandemic exhaustion is not especially sharp, and many jokes fall flat or go on too long. But there are enough absurd moments, cameos and stupid little bits that land. Not a good film, not a deep satire, but a harmless, chaotic parody with some grace.

Embarrassing as much as TikTok. I am utterly ashamed of those actors trying to look silly for Gen Z or whatever they are. We are losing our seriousness. It's going down and down.

Seems clear that this is not a "good" movie, but I found it to be watchable, but admittedly forgettable. I guess keep your expectations low and watch it if you want some lazy laughs.

Easily Apatow's worst film. It's a comedy thats almost insufferably unfunny and at over 2 hours, its a dread to have to get through. The cast is fine, they try to make their best of bad material but this is clearly one of those "Covid movies" that was dumped onto Netflix for the sake of content.

Didn't think this was as awful as expected, some of the humor was fine in parts, most of the covid stuff was pretty bad.

(Mauro Lanari) If it only amuses when it pays homage to other works or movies, Goya, "Videodrome", "Pulp Fiction", it means that the parody is affected/afflicted by the same problems it would like to criticize and it fails to distract us from them.

The movie is all over the place, but the chaos is part of the humor. The commentary on what we've been through the last couple years and just laughing at the downfall of society. The last 30 minutes could have been wrapped up in one. It's supposed to be bad, smoke some weed and enjoy the **** show.

Easily Apatow's worst film. It's a comedy thats almost insufferably unfunny and at over 2 hours, its a dread to have to get through. The cast is fine, they try to make their best of bad material but this is clearly one of those "Covid movies" that was dumped onto Netflix for the sake of content.

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Why do people always think films need to be good? This film lasts like 2 hours and for all that time something is happening. Story? Humour? Characters? Who needs anything this film has a premise and like one good joke about not putting on a mask because they are drinking.

From writer/director Judd Apatow comes this comedy about trying to make a movie during COVID quarantine. He's assembled a decent cast, including Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann and Kate McKinnon, plus some fun cameos. They're all trapped in one location near London to make the 6th installment of a cheesy adventure series, while they also cope with the peculiar personalities. Even though most of the activity takes place between shoots, there are some fun scenes of their filming with the green screen. Overall, the movie has plenty of comic energy, but not a lot of truly funny lines. In some ways it feels like a loosely-improvised Christopher Guest project. The Tic-Toc dance numbers are improbable attempts at relevant material, but they just feel silly. While the vitality is there, the writing is only mildly amusing. NOTE: Stay thru the early credits for fun, then one final gag after all the credits.

A bad movie about making a bad movie. How can you not see that the final cut has all the mistakes it is trying to poke fun on.

I see a lot of hate for the movie in the other reviews but It seems to me like people entirely missed the whole point of the movie. It's not about glorifying hollywood, but exactly the opposite. It presents the movie stars in the worst light possible. They are spoiled brats who cannot handle being stuck in an ultra exclusive hotel for a 100 days to film a movie and earn millions of dollars while the rest of the world is falling apart. Honestly it's amazing that this movie ever got made. If you understand the humor and the context it's great fun and has a lot of extremely funny scenes and ranges from some pretty random and pretty fun light humor to deep critique of hollywood and it's skewed outlook on politics and it's meaning to regular folk.

Worst movie I've ever seen. I love this cast, love Judd Apatow, but this was inexplicably awful.

Pretty sure the whole point of this movie just flew over everyone's heads. It's supposed to mock the entire industry, including the actors. I enjoyed the randomness. It was different. People take every movie too seriously nowadays, including movies that aren't supposed to be taken seriously at all.

Was this movie written for the general audience, or Hollywood actors? I don't see how anyone normal could like this or find it funny. Total garbage, this is why Netflix is raising prices? Yikes.....

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The Bubble is the classic representation of someone who keeps telling bad jokes and thinks it's hilarious when no one in the room is laughing. Worse, I find it even more stupid to see that they seem to think they were making some kind of good satirical mockery of a reality that they themselves exploit on a daily basis. Exploiting their egos? That would be commendable if at least what was proposed was nothing more than a petty collection of lousy ideas exploring once again what he has always done; stories with childish adults who have some funny situation that makes him think he can stretch it ad nauseam. Apatow rather than those involved perhaps believed that not taking himself seriously would be more believable and probably would have worked if not for the simple fact that it's not funny. None of it is. Despite the strong cast, Apatow does nothing with the characters, and gives them nothing but pitiful scenes in which you can tell they are completely disinterested themselves. Like their fictional counterparts, they are there because of their contract and because they were clearly paid well for doing the bare minimum. This wasn't meant to be taken seriously, in any way. However, that also doesn't mean you get to play dumb and think you've done something worthy of the spotlight, and The Bubble deserves total obscurity.

Judd Apatows greatest April Fools Day joke!! Gave it a 1 because of Pedro Pascal in a robe!

Judd Apatow has fallen so far. Maybe this would’ve worked as a 90 minute film, but at over two hours it’s a massive chore. I’m really sick of Hollywood telling us pleabs how tough they had it during the pandemic…