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BUBBLE BOY

"Blatant Bigotry with Phony Compassion"

What You Need To Know:

BUBBLE BOY is a demonic, anti-Christian, politically-correct, hedonistic satire about a sick boy trapped in a plastic bubble who escapes his Christian fundamentalist mother to hook up with his true love. On the way to Niagara Falls, Jimmy the Bubble Boy meets a religious cult, a vicious biker, a group of freaks led by a mean midget, some female mud wrestlers, and a Hindu evangelist selling Nirvana ice cream. Jimmy finds out his mother has lied to him. In the last scene, everyone is engaged in hippie debauchery, smiling and joyous.

As prescribed by the Satanic Bible, sex liberates Bubble Boy from the evil of Christianity. Like SOUTH PARK, this movie is purposefully offensive, but it is not an equal opportunity offender. Even with some anti-Semitism and anti-Hinduism, it is clear that the target is Christianity. The acting, dialogue and story points are stupid, but, because of the mocking satire in the movie, this could be intentional. This movie is a heavy-handed, sophomoric attempt to spread cancer throughout the fabric of our culture, to make the good seem bad and the bad seem good, to laugh at all things righteous and to extol all things perverse.

Content:

(OOO, AbAbAb, PCPCPC, APAPAP, PaPaPa, LLL, VVV, SSS, NN, A, DD, MM) Satanic, demonic anti-Christian worldview mocking everything Christian, as well as minor mocking of Judaism, Hinduism, & cultism, but clearly the main target is Christianity, with strong politically correct elements, including bigoted attacks on patriotic conservatives, Republican leaders like Ronald Reagan & “the religious right,” & advocacy of sexual hedonism; 27 obscenities, 6 profanities, constant blasphemy including mocking Jesus, prayer, nuns, the Bible, & virtue, & lots of obscene & blasphemous sight gags; mock violence, sometimes obscene, such as women mud wrestle with Bubble Boy, midget beats Bubble Boy with a bat, freaks, bikers & cult members erupt into violent riot, blood spatters on Hindu from dead bull, which is continually run over, biker threatens to cut out man’s heart with large knife, cab driver & pilot die, car crashes, plane crash, Bubble Boy falls over Niagara Falls; blatant sexual suggestiveness, but trimmed slightly to avoid R-rating, between female mud wrestlers, bikers, cult members, cult book shows private parts on transparency, masturbation jokes, transvestitism; very revealing cleavage, people in underwear, supposedly just shy of the R-rating; drinking; smoking & references to drugs; and, sex lauded as liberation from the constraints of Christianity, Nirvana ice cream & mocking physical handicaps.

More Detail:

One strain of contemporary music has been virulently anti-Christian for several years, with Marilyn Manson standing up attacking Christians and ripping out pages of the Bible. Experts trace this rebellion to Aleister Crowley, one of the fathers of modern Satanism, whose “do what thou wilt” philosophy and “sex is a weapon of liberation” have become popular cultural icons.

Underneath a sweet veneer, with a happy face ending, BUBBLE BOY is just such a Satanic allegory. Purposefully anti-Christian, the movie opens with little Jimmy being born from heaven with no immunities. He remembers the big bird (a nun with a funny hat) and an oversize crucifix as he gets wheeled down the hospital corridors.

After months in isolation, Jimmy is brought home to live in a bubble. His mother violently bakes him cookies in the shape of crosses, with INRI engraved on them, and in the shape of fish with Jesus’ name on them. When she bakes her cookies, she prays imprecatory prayers against the evil outside world.

She tells Jimmy she’s going to protect him from the outside world. She tells him that women are whores, and the outside world is evil. Her house is decorated with pictures of Reagan and Nixon. Thus, Jimmy’s mom is the more than the archetypal Christian nutcase.

Jimmy dutifully goes along with all this home schooling until the beautiful Cleo moves in next door. He watches her wash the car in a provocative manner. Now a teenager, he gets an erection. His mother tells him to say the Pledge of Allegiance over and over until it goes away.

One day, Cleo decides to visit with Jimmy. He calls her the whore next door. She corrects him with a smile and says, “I’m not a whore, I’m a bitch.” Clearly she’s there to liberate him.

When she declares she’s going to get married a few years later, Jimmy builds a personal bubble and heads out across America to stop the wedding GRADUATE style.

On the way to Niagara Falls, Jimmy meets a cult which is waiting for the second coming of the Chosen One. This cult again is concerned with sexual purity. They dump him in the middle of the desert, only to try to find him again later. A vicious biker picks him up and introduces Jimmy to the sins of Las Vegas. After Las Vegas, Jimmy gets involved with a group of freaks led by a mean midget named Dr. Freak. Two of the freaks are an Orthodox Jew and his wife who are joined at the head in a sick bigoted joke. Next, Jimmy gets involved with a Hindu ice cream salesman who has a full breasted Hindu goddess on top of his ice cream van. The Hindu evangelist is brought low by hitting a holy cow with his van. All the crew of people now looking for Bubble Boy, including the biker, the freaks, his parents, and the cult members, run over the holy cow, splattering the Hindu time after time with blood.

Bubble Boy enters a female mud wrestling contest to win $500 so he can take a cab to Niagara Falls. The old cab driver dies at the wheel. Finally, Jimmy takes a plane. The pilot dies, and the plane crashes. Jimmy falls over the falls, breaks up the wedding, rips open his bubble, and finds out that his mother has been lying to him all these years. In the last scene, everyone is engaged in hippie debauchery, smiling and joyous.

As prescribed by the Satanic Bible, sex liberates Bubble Boy from the evil confines of Christianity. Like SOUTH PARK, this movie is purposefully offensive, but it is not an equal opportunity offender. Even with the anti-Semitism and anti-Hinduism, it is clear that the ultimate target is Christianity, Jesus Christ and the Word of God, the Bible. The acting, dialogue and story points are stupid, but, because of the nature of the mocking satire in the movie, this could be intentional. Regrettably, during the screening, the audience was laughing at all the bigoted jokes, especially the little children. And, the warm fuzzy ending captured everybody’s heart.

This movie is beyond offense. It is a heavy-handed, sophomoric attempt to spread cancer throughout the fabric of our culture, to make the good seem bad and the bad seem good, to laugh at all things righteous and to extol all things perverse. Regrettably, in the tradition of SOUTH PARK, AMERICAN PIE and THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, it may find an audience among the youth, the very people who should not see this movie.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.