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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: GYLLENHAAL,JAKE EAN: 9780788833021 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0788833022 Label: Walt Disney Video Languages: Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video MPN: 786936165401 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 15, 2002 Running Time: 84 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 2001 Editorial Review: Product Description: A sheltered young man who lives in a protective bubble decides to stop the wedding of the girl he loves. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG13 Release Date: 5-AUG-2003 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Innocuous, innocent, and somewhat idiotic, Disney's bubbleheaded road-movie comedy plays as a farcical remake of the 1976 cult TV-movie melodrama The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Jake Gyllenhaal is the goodhearted innocent raised in a sort of human Habitrail of plastic rooms and rubber tunnels. To win back the girl of his dreams (Marley Shelton), he steps out of his indoor greenhouse and into a homemade Ziplock bubble suit. It's the usual story: naive innocent bounces down the highway like a beach ball with legs and wins over the wacky supporting cast of soft-hearted bikers, zombielike teenage cultists, and orphaned "freaks" through purity and pluck. The premise wears thin after a while, but Gyllenhaal keeps the film bounding along with goofy innocence and energetic eagerness. Swoosie Kurtz costars as his religious-zealot clinging mom. Watch for Fabio in an inspired cameo. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Roundness wins!The concept of an innocent boy in a bubble for his entire life to be free of germs is ingenious. The Travolta version is not the same and not symbolic in the way that this one is. Gyllenhaal had a fun role, and his "daringness" and luckiness to be able to accept roles like this early on have helped boost his name and career to his current well respected place in the biz. The bubble itself was hard to make as it had to be customized by special companies who make masks and such, and ... Read More Rating: - A silly but funny movieAn outrageously silly movie, yet very funny and at times touching. It's a very unconventional and crazy cast of characters, and filled with adventure as a guy born without immunities sets out across the country in a plastic bubble to be with the girl he loves. Rating: - Perfectly paced farce!This was just a great time, a farce with perfect timing and pitch--crazy characters all around doing expected and sometimes unexpected things. Brought all the parties together nicely at the end, and used well the opportunity to poke fun at just about everybody. Jakey's goofy grin, bedroom eyes and overall innocence... what a killer combo! The "$500!" back-and-forth sequences had me on the floor, and I don't know how they did that with a straight face. Rating: - Great Movie"Five Hundred Dollars!" This movie is a classic. I can sum it up in one word, "Beetlejuice". Not the movie, the actor who gained fame (?) on Howard Stern. He cracks me up. The cast as a whole takes the premise of the movie seriously and that leads to some over the top performances, especially the mother as played by Swoosie Kurtz. Sit Down, Press Play, and Start Laughing. Rating: - Silly...but so very funnyI finally got over my snobbery to actually watch this movie and I'm so glad that I did. True the premise get a little old somewhere around the middle, but Gyllenhaal keeps you interested and emotionally invested--a sign of a truelly good actor. Warning: you need to be in a goofy mood to enjoy this film. Recommended. |
