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.

If you fancy a bit of escapism during these hard times then you have come to the right place. This is a pretty silly but amusing comedy about a movie production during Covid.

I'm not going to lie, the film is a bit all over the place, the pacing is either super fast or super slow and at times it seems like its going on forever. The film they are filming is silly and I guess this is what you might call a parody of the industry and Hollywood.

There are also a ton of Cameos, as expected from an Apatow film, this is however one of the less structured Apatow comedy's out there.

Strangely enough Leslie Mann is in this film...... who would have thought Eh. Whats that ???? Iris Apatow is in this film as well. Surely she plays the daughter of Leslie Manns character ( just like in real life ) !!! No..... she doesn't., She plays the young Tik Tok star. Dennis Hoppers daughter Galen makes her screen debut in possibly one of the most pointless characters ever but she was fine I guess.

Both David Duchovny and Pedro Pascal looked hungover all the way through this film, which is fine as they were playing characters who were mainly hungover.

I like Karen Gillan and her character is fine, slightly dull, again often looked tired or hungover. The feeling I got is that the cast this during lockdown about filming during lockdown and just had a laugh making it under similar conditions the film was trying to portray.

It was all very tongue in cheek and often seemed quite ad-libbed.

I don't remember seeing Apatow in a cameo ?

At times the film has some laugh out loud moments, some mildly amusing moments, Silly moments and then some really missed the mark moments. You began to wonder where its all heading and kind of switch of a little but something keeps pulling you back into this ridiculous situation.

Its nothing ground breaking but it was fairly unique and a fun concept.

I should really be marking this a 6 but I got hooked in and enjoyed it so its a 6.5 or 7.

Premise had a lot of potential. The cast are talented. The film is just not very good. It's poorly paced and the gags are flat. Could've been great with a rewrite that included actual jokes and slicker dialogue.

Not a good film by any measure.