"Bubble Boy" is bright, frantic, innocent, occasionally gross, wickedly observant and just plain nuts. The romance is just a plot contrivance for the hero's amazing journey and "The Graduate" parody climax is obvious, but the wrap-up does provides a few character revelation chuckles.Ĭommercial director Blair Hayes does a pretty good job keeping all the elements interwoven, although things get confusing once or twice along the way. The Bright and Shinies go off in pursuit of the messiah the freaks wish to claim as their savior.Īfter being rescued by Indian ice cream and curry van man who has a tragic run in with a sacred cow and earning $500 in a Chinese night club mud-wrestling contest with two bikini-clad babes to pay a 97 year old cabbie, Jimmy eventually lands (literally) in Niagara Falls. Meanwhile, the leader of the Bright and Shinies (Fabio!) tells them their messiah will look just like the bubble boy they discarded.
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Phreaks' ("Austin Powers'" mini-me, Verne Troyer) travelling sideshow of Flipper Boy (Geoffrey Arend), Li'l Zip (Beetlejuice), Chicken Man (Stephen Spinella) and the Human Sasquatch (Matthew McGrory). When the Livingstons hit the road in pursuit of Jimmy, they end up hitting the lad off his Vegas-won scooter and he bounces right into a train car filled with Dr. They're illustrating how a bad environment affects our new generations. Screenwriters Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are attempting to do more than shock and offend, though. 'From the Jews? They're gonna want more than $100,000!' she screams, in perhaps the flick's most offensive, but in character, line.
Livingston is reading the fake ransom note she's had her hapless husband compose. Once Jimmy innocently declares them a cult, he's thrown out of the bus and picked up by a friendly biker (Danny Trejo, "Spy Kids") who brings him to Las Vegas where he becomes a human beach ball at a rock concert. He first meets a churlish, regimented bus stop guy (Zach Galifianakis) who's no help in getting him to his destination, but a busload of 'Bright and Shinies,' an 'Up With People'-like cult all named Todd or Lorraine, pick him up instead. Jimmy grows up to be a wild eyed innocent who dines on cross shaped soy fiber cookies and loves watching "Land of the Lost" with 'the whore next door.'Īdorned with the spiky hair and distancing false arms of "Edward Scissorhands," Gyllenhaal (a much wiser casting choice than the more obvious Brendan Fraser) makes us feel his innocent joy at seeing grass and walking outside in his clear spherical suit.
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Livingston is one of those religious nuts who teaches her child that other religions are bad, TV only gets 1 mom-approved station, and all fairy tales end with the hero getting out of his bubble and dying. I'm amazed this button-pushing movie, sure to be reviled by many, came from a Disney studio (Touchstone). Let me state one thing up front - I find political correctness to be an overvalued virtue and I found "Bubble Boy" to be both jaw-droppingly outrageous and funny with some sharply observed societal and religious subtext.
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