The Bubble (2022) Reviews

Since this movie had been rather poorly received, I had some rather low expectations but, since it was directed by Judd Apatow and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. Well, I’m afraid I will have to agree with the critics on this one. First of all, it’s such a pity that so many interesting directors like Apatow, when they finally get to work for Netflix, pretty much always deliver their worst or, at least, their most underwhelming directorial effort so far (see also Duncan Jones, Joe Wright, David Ayer, Matt Thompson, David Michod, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini). Anyway, in this case, the damned thing was so lame, it was seriously pretty much unwatchable. It’s too bad because it was the very first movie I saw which was actually really acknowledging the Covid pandemic so there was definitely some potential. Eventually, you might wonder if it was too soon to make a comedy about this worldwide tragedy but I don’t think it would have made any difference if this movie would have been released 10 years later. Indeed, it has been a while since I have seen such a comedy during which 99% of the jokes fell completely flat. To make things worse, all the characters were so uncharismatic and so tedious to behold in spite a decent cast involved (Karen Gillan, Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal, David Duchovny, Kate McKinnon). There were even a couple of cameo’s which were more weird than actually entertaining involving Daisy Ridley and James McAvoy. Eventually, the only one who managed to do something slightly interesting with her character was Iris Apatow and her first TikTok video was actually pretty cool. However, if the only thing you can enjoy is a random TikTok video involving the characters of this movie, well, it is pretty obvious you are watching something pretty bad. Anyway, to conclude, even if the concept was actually  neat, the damned thing turned out to be so weak and you should probably avoid it.