🍿 2022-04-02 01:57:06 – Paris/France.
movies like THE BUBBLE They are depressing in many ways. First, for watching a once-admired director engage in the blandest of parodies. Second, seeing a group of very good comedians make superhuman sacrifices to try to make a script that has nowhere to laugh. And, third, because of the film itself, a two-hour-plus no-funny comedy that attempts to humor the pandemic in the most basic way possible.
There have been many Hollywood parodies of chaotic shoots. There is perhaps nothing the industry loves more than a laugh at itself once in a while. One might think that the starting point of THE BUBBLE it has its originality: it should not have been common to film during the first stage (pre-vaccines) of the pandemic. And what Apatow is trying here, in part, is to show how doubly chaotic a film set can be with the "protocols" against COVID-19.
The director's film VIRGIN AT 40 It is, from the outset, quite garish and relies on a rather thick comic style. There's nothing wrong with that, at first, but as the minutes go by, it becomes clear that it's not the style that best suits a director who is characterized by more human and characterful comedies. recognizable as SLIGHTLY PREGNANT or the recent (and very good) THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND.
The axis here is the turning of BEASTS OF THE CLIFFS 6umpteenth sequel to a kind of cheap version of JURASSIC PARK be filmed during the pandemic. Filming will take place in a large mansion in the English countryside with a non-existent crew (there are hardly any technicians on set, which could be understandable given the pandemic, but it is too few for a production supposedly 100 million dollars), a dozen players and health and hotel managers.
The main character is Carol (Karen Gillan, the "Nebula" of the Marvel universe, someone surely used to this type of filming full of effects and green screens), who did not want to play in the fifth flaps and returns, with its head down, after something calledThe Jerusalem Uprising», a sci-fi film in which Palestinians and Israelis teamed up to fight aliens that was panned by critics. They don't receive it well, by the way. But the main problems are other.
The entire cast has to quarantine in their rooms for a fortnight, and when they reunite, they are all mentally altered, far more than usual. The group consists of Dieter Bravo (Pedro Pascal), a Method actor who uses different accents all the time and takes himself very seriously; Sean Knox (Keegan-Michael Key), who clings to a pseudo-religious start-up he created; Lauren Van Chance (Leslie Mann) and Dustin Mulray (David Duchovny), a married couple of stars, and Krystal Kris (Iris Apatow, the director's other daughter as well as the star of EUPHORIA Maude), a TikTok celebrity with over 120 million followers.
All must be guided by Darren Eigen (Fred Armisen), an independent director who won at Sundance for a film made with his iPhone 6 while working at a Home Depot chain store. And, as you might expect, he's not the right person for the job. But the main problems go through the extreme security and the protocols installed by the producer (Peter Serafinowicz) who are increasingly rolling a cast that already has little sanity from the start.
But at some point the pandemic is also forgotten and there is still an hour and a half of very unfunny situations on the set of a special effects action movie in which the actors do not get along, they fight with the director, they rebel against production, they use cocaine, they sleep with whoever meets them (without ever respecting the sacred protocols), they make dance videos for TikTok and action scenes with these sacred green screens which still turn out fine. And so, again and again, in a shoot that spans months and is as endless as watching THE BUBBLE.
The funniest here are perhaps those who see everything a bit from the outside: people from the hotel, those from the "Covid protocol" etc., a group of young and not so well-known comedians (including Vir Das, Samson Kayo, Harry Trevaldwyn and daughter of BORAT 2Maria Bakalova), with whom the public should identify, witnessing the ridiculous demands, the chaos and the annoyances of the stars in question.
The movie crashes and crashes, and there's nothing to save it, not even the celebrity cameos (Kate McKinnon, Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, John Lithgow, musician Beck, and others) that pop up from time to time. . And while there may be some funny moments - which could well be part of a sketch-type show Saturday Night Live–, the context is so exhausting that we no longer have the strength to laugh.
THE BUBBLE It's one of those movies that makes you think that Netflix's decision to be able to watch movies faster than normal might not be so ridiculous after all. But if you don't, the two and a half hours of this cinematic disaster becomes endless and even a little irritating.
It is true that we are talking about a film made during a pandemic, surely written and filmed as a way to use time and provide work during the most difficult period of the case, so it will remain more like an anecdote forgettable in Apatow's career and not necessarily a real misstep. But to see two very good comedy filmmakers like him or Adam McKay make films as uninteresting as this or DO NOT LOOK makes one wonder if this is not in fact a somewhat more serious problem. Could it be that they forgot how to make people laugh?
SOURCE: Reviews News
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