Judd Apatow usually has a good comedic and dramatic instincts in his films. Perhaps this era of wokeness and cancel culture has dampened his funny bone. All the jokes whether slapstick, dialogue, situational - are only slightly amusing. They don't seem that brave, clever, witty, charming or challenging like his previous films. No particular big laugh out loud moments. Even the cameos from many other famous actors/actresses/musicians only amounts to minor amusement. Eg. John Cena, Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, Beck.
The whole premise of a group of self absorbed actors who brought together to a luxurious hotel in England at the height of a pandemic to film another sequel of a film franchise called Cliff Beasts, is an interesting one. Which could of been a good opportunity for comedic caricatures of the starring actors themselves. Instead they're acting as fictional actors in a fictional world, which seems less braver option.
For example It would have been so much funnier to have David Duchovny to be a real crazy conspiracy theorist like his Mulder character in the X Files.
It could of been even gone even more meta and gone the Tropic Thunder or Galaxy Quest story route of these eccentric and egotistical actors finding themselves in a real situation of discovering actual real life "Cliff Beasts" and using their acting skills to overcome the beasts and survive.
Keanu Reeves exaggerated self parody cameo in the Ali Wong film "Be My Maybe" was one of the comedic highlights of that film. Or Ricky Gervais's Extras tv show had cameo appearances from top tier Hollywood actors/actresses that were extremely funny and were either exaggerated or juxtaposed parodies of themselves was so much more effective and funnier than this film.
Ironically in the end the filming of the Cliff Beasts sequel is considered such a failure, it is turned into a documentary film instead. When In reality the film itself fails to deliver as even a meta Docu-film or to deliver many laughs.
Unfortunately The Bubble is less a comedy and more a bland and sad commentary about the truth behind the folly of Hollywood stars and the Hollywood machine.
The whole premise of a group of self absorbed actors who brought together to a luxurious hotel in England at the height of a pandemic to film another sequel of a film franchise called Cliff Beasts, is an interesting one. Which could of been a good opportunity for comedic caricatures of the starring actors themselves. Instead they're acting as fictional actors in a fictional world, which seems less braver option.
For example It would have been so much funnier to have David Duchovny to be a real crazy conspiracy theorist like his Mulder character in the X Files.
It could of been even gone even more meta and gone the Tropic Thunder or Galaxy Quest story route of these eccentric and egotistical actors finding themselves in a real situation of discovering actual real life "Cliff Beasts" and using their acting skills to overcome the beasts and survive.
Keanu Reeves exaggerated self parody cameo in the Ali Wong film "Be My Maybe" was one of the comedic highlights of that film. Or Ricky Gervais's Extras tv show had cameo appearances from top tier Hollywood actors/actresses that were extremely funny and were either exaggerated or juxtaposed parodies of themselves was so much more effective and funnier than this film.
Ironically in the end the filming of the Cliff Beasts sequel is considered such a failure, it is turned into a documentary film instead. When In reality the film itself fails to deliver as even a meta Docu-film or to deliver many laughs.
Unfortunately The Bubble is less a comedy and more a bland and sad commentary about the truth behind the folly of Hollywood stars and the Hollywood machine.