Bubble
Boy Innocuous,
innocent, and somewhat idiotic, Disney's
bubbleheaded road-movie comedy plays as a
farcical remake of the 1976 cult TV-movie
melodrama The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
Jake Gyllenhaal is the goodhearted innocent
raised in a sort of human Habitrail of plastic
rooms and rubber tunnels. To win back the girl of
his dreams (Marley Shelton), he steps out of his
indoor greenhouse and into a homemade Ziplock
bubble suit. It's the usual story: naive innocent
bounces down the highway like a beach ball with
legs and wins over the wacky supporting cast of
soft-hearted bikers, zombielike teenage cultists,
and orphaned "freaks" through purity
and pluck. The premise wears thin after a while,
but Gyllenhaal keeps the film bounding along with
goofy innocence and energetic eagerness. Swoosie
Kurtz costars as his religious-zealot clinging
mom. Watch for Fabio in an inspired cameo. --Sean
Axmaker of Amazon.com
Wrestlers in this
movie include Midajah and Stacey Keibler, who
appear as mud wrestlers in one scene!
Release Date:
January 15, 2002
Rating: PG-13
Approximate
Running Time: 90 minutes
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