The Bubble is Judd Apatow comedy at its most dull, facile, and laboriously overlong. nataliakeogan's review of the COVID-era Netflix film:
, already feels like a time capsule of a hyper-specific moment in pandemic life. Following the cast of a long-running action franchise that must exist in an on-set “bubble” to reduce risk of COVID-19 exposure, it chronicles the flaws intrinsic to making a piece of Hollywood fluff while a global pandemic still rages. Yet,plays into the very phenomenon it’s supposed to be critiquing, itself as vacuous and unnecessary as the flying dinosaur franchise installment it depicts.
She feels shoehorned into the film to make an empty statement about casting solely based on social currency, while she herself benefits from nepotism. Krystal dominates much of the film’s half-baked narrative, while exciting rising talent is needlessly relegated to the sideline. This is particularly true of Bakalova, whose shallow role is steeped in regressive misogyny, especially offensive considering how successfully this exact trope was lampooned in thesequel that served as her breakout.