Bubble Boy 2001

Charles Savage, Miami Herald: Once the juggling balls have hit the floor, Bubble Boy must simply be endured until the lights come up. It seems that in the movies, at least, there is a limit to how far low expectations can take you. Read more

Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times: You may be surprised at how closely it resembles Pee-wee's Big Adventure in spirit. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: If unfunny isn't enough, the flick is also guilty of unforgivable smugness. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: When it clicks, the picture should shock you into laughter -- enough to make you wish it were better and applaud its efforts anyway. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Another smart-alecky road comedy with something to offend half the population. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A sad, badly made, badly written little flick full of outrageously gross gags, insipid jokes and tasteless visual puns. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: If anything, it's the filmmakers who seem insulated, working cluelessly within the plastic bubble of Hollywood. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Utterly stupid and devoid of any redeeming features, Bubble Boy manages to be much better than it has any right to be. Read more

Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly: 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 more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It's got a brain that occasionally works, a ticker that sometimes pulses, and a nose intermittently keen to the whiff of hypocrisy. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: It's impossible not to respond to Gyllenhaal's sweetness, wide eyes and dazzling smile, or to imagine anyone whose looks or personality would be more perfectly suited to the role. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The frothy Bubble Boy evaporates without delivering enough belly laughs. Read more

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Nick Rutigliano, Village Voice: Hollywood monstrosities all, and boy are they scary! Read more