Bubble Boy

Name: Bubble Boy
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Released: August 24, 2001
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal

2001

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Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: August 24, 2001 | PG-13

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal

Summary: This coming of age comedy follows the adventures of Bubble Boy Jimmy Livingston as he leaves his protected world in a portable bubble and begins a cross-country journey to win back the girl of his dreams.

Director: Blair Hayes

Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 84 min

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Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

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.

Kimberley Jones

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

A.O. Scott

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

Claudia Puig

Though there are some funny sequences, the frothy Bubble Boy evaporates without delivering enough belly laughs. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

Fitfully funny at best, it's a sophomoric, facetious road comedy. Read full review

Nick Rutigliano

The coke-fried gibbons behind Bubble Boy came to a trailblazing conclusion: The ideal filmic oddity is white, male, and -- a mother's deception notwithstanding -- perfectly healthy. Read full review

Bruce Fretts

After enduring only a few minutes of this shrill debacle, you'll feel more trapped in the theater than Jimmy is by his bubble. Read full review

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OneWhoKnows

Aug 25, 2010

The best soundtrack EVER! The best of the strangest comedies in history. I tried to find another movie by the author of Bubble Boy... nothing I could find works as well as this.
Should be ranked as one of the best comedies (although I know it won't). Too many Napoleon Dynamite fans out there...

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hillary

May 11, 2006

This movie ROCKS!

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FelixQ.

Jul 25, 2006

I will defend this one unto the death. Well, maybe not *death*, but you get the point. I actually laughed out loud while watching it on my own, which doesn't happen often. I really am a sap for the puppy-dog eyes male leads, and this movie just scratches the itch in the hard to reach I will defend this one unto the death. Well, maybe not *death*, but you get the point. I actually laughed out loud while watching it on my own, which doesn't happen often. I really am a sap for the puppy-dog eyes male leads, and this movie just scratches the itch in the hard to reach spot in he middle of my back. Metaphorically speaking, that it.… Expand

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May 4, 2021

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Defame

Apr 30, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Danny Trejo loved playing his role because he doesn't get killed and he didn't have to kill anyone else.… Expand

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Receptacle

Jun 23, 2021

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Dunkaccino

Feb 15, 2023

Jake Gyllenhall is fantastic here among this stupidly goofy movie. He commits and delivers, I guess.

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