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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Marley Shelton
• Swoosie Kurtz
Director
• Blair Hayes
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - language and crude sexual humor
Bubble Boy (2001)

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OFCS Rating: 32% Rotten
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"The politics of this 'outrageous' comedy are completely conventional."  Nitrate Online  Cynthia Fuchs

0/4
"Calling the picture an insult to the immune deficiency syndrome is inappropriate; however, calling the movie an act of pure idiocy is bordering generosity."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

1.5/4
"Rarely funny, mildly entertaining in a morbid sort of way, and almost always terrible."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

3/4
"Who knew that Disney could have turned a potentially insipid project such as this into a raucous journey through a spiritually confused American landscape?"  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

D
"A garish, tawdry film, a mean-spirited trainwreck with virtually no redeeming qualities."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

F
"An empty-headed, chaotic, utterly tasteless atrocity...bubble- brained and obnoxious."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

"A mean spirited film that's not funny, clever or imaginative enough to make the barbs and jabs easier or at least more entertaining to swallow."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

6/10
"The film is only sporadically funny, and it's frequently in poor taste, but it's got energy to spare, and Gyllenhaal's performance gives it a soul."  All Movie Guide  Josh Ralske

B
"bright, frantic, innocent, occasionally gross, wickedly observant and just plain nuts"  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

1.5/5
"Its satirical jabs at American culture are obvious and juvenile."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

"Seems calculated to deliberately offend not only every character onscreen but everyone in the audience as well."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

0/4
"The ultimate cinematic bafflement, one that will leave the most jaded Hollywood observer with a Freddie Prinze Jr.-like look of bug-eyed, slack-jawed shock."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

1/5
"O personagem-título não é apenas sem graça, mas também chato."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

B-
"Words that come to mind...are politically incorrect, subversive and anarchistic."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

C+
"Hardly original and rarely laugh-out-loud funny... What keeps the film bobbing along is Gyllenhaal’s goofy innocence and energetic eagerness."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

"Has a heart that swells as big as Jimmy’s plastic prison."  Eclipse Magazine  Sean O'Connell

2.5/4
"(Bubble Boy) squanders its strongest moments but at least has the courage to attempt strong moments."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

1/10
Read review  Modamag.com  Brian Orndorf

5/10
Read review  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

Read review  Cinema Crazed  Felix Vasquez Jr.
OFCS Rating: 32% Rotten
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