Bubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the w... Read allBubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the wedding.Bubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the wedding.
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- TriviaDanny Trejo loved playing his role because he doesn't get killed and he didn't have to kill anyone else.
- GoofsIn the scene where Bubble Boy is making his escape from home, he rolls down the stairs and bounces into the living room. In this shot you can clearly see another layer of the clear bubble material encasing/suspending him for protection during the stunt. In the very next shot, this layer is gone and the bubble moves freely around him.
- Quotes
Jimmy: I saw the sign outside and it said that you had five hundred dollars.
Emcee: You want five hundred dolla?
Jimmy: Yes, I would like five hundred dollars.
Emcee: You want five hundred dolla?
Jimmy: Yes please, I would like five hundred dollars.
Emcee: You want five hundred dolla?
Jimmy: Yes I want five hundred dolla!
Emcee: Five hundred dolla!
Jimmy: Five hundred dolla!
Emcee: Five hundred dolla!
Jimmy: Five hundred dolla!
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the credits, the phreaks can be heard shouting: "Oh, I love Cadillacs!" "Shotgun!" "Shut up, Chicken." "We'll never fit." "Whup that ass!"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Beyond Clueless (2014)
- SoundtracksDammit (Growing Up)
Written by Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor
Performed by Blink-182
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
The film's certainly not for all tastes, but will appeal to people who've liked John Waters' films from the past decade. Yes, it's politically incorrect. But that's a big part of the fun! Most of the jokes are delivered with a dry sense of irony (case in point, the guy in the ticket booth). The entire cast gives hilarious performances from Swoosie Kurtz in an outrageous psycho-mother performance to `Working's Arden Myrin as head-Lorraine, the psycho cult-follower. A big part of the fun is that all of the characters ARE psycho and off-kilter. Much like the TV-series `The Oblongs,' the psychos in this film aren't scarred by their shortcomings, they revel in them... Which is why it isn't offensive unless you're politically correct and easily offended.
It feels like this movie should have been made 20 years ago. It has a real '80s feel to it, and the multiple `Land of the Lost' references (the spoof scene is hysterical) feel about 15 years out of place. There's no gross-out sexual humor, which is both refreshing and unusual in this post-`There's Something About Mary' age of films. It just has a twisted-wholesome 80s sense about it.
My one and only complaint is the running time. At 83 mins, it left me wanting more. Many of the scenes seem choppy, as if big parts of the scenes are missing (Bubble Boy's confrontation with Dr. Phreak for one). The entire opening sequence seems as if it should have gone on longer, and instead they compensated with voice-overs and musical overdubs to push it forward faster. It wouldn't bother me if there were a `deleted scenes' section on the DVD, but like most of Touchstone's DVD releases, there's little for extras.
All in all, a great little underrated film!
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,007,898
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,038,349
- Aug 26, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $5,007,898
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1