The Bubble is an odd concoction. It is, in part, a satire of a film that hasn’t even been released yet: co-writers Judd Apatow and Pam Brady were inspired by the production of Jurassic World Dominion, which was the first major film to resume work after the initial Covid lockdown back in 2020. While it’s not quite a direct spoof, the sixth Jurassic film acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s a fair few nods, via The Bubble’s movie-within-a-movie, ‘Cliff Beasts 6’. (Leslie Mann even shares Bryce Dallas Howard’s ginger bob.)###For writer-director Judd Apatow, it marks something of an unexpected departure: after years swimming in the comedy-drama pool — making funny films with emotional, serious stakes such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin or The King Of Staten Island — he’s gone in/with regard to’concerning’regarding something straightin/with regard to’concerning’regarding wardly sillier here, a tone and plot akin to Tropic Thunder. Establishing an eccentric ensemble of egomaniacs, Apatow imagines an Apocalypse Now-scale disastrous production, where eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything that could possibly go wrong does indeed go wrong — with the added element of swabs being shoved up noses.###_The Bubble_ plays almost like a series of comic vignettes, and like any sketch reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , it can be hit-and-miss.###With merely’barely a loose narrative, The Bubble plays almost like a series of comic vignettes, and like any sketch reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , it can be hit-and-miss. The actual spoofed movie scenes, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding example, aren’t quite as funny as e grossly one involved seems to claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate they are; ‘Cliff Beasts 6’, were it ever to exist, would be The Room levels of wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile . The fake actors don’t so much chew the scenery as swallow it whole, adopting hammy accents that even Jared Leto would possess’own’nurse second despite’in spite of’albeit ts with regards to’concerning’with respect to . A dinosaur doing a TikTok dance, meanwhile, is abundant’ample’plentiful to break anyone’s suspension of disbelief.###The comedy finds a better hold when we acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure a sense of the dynamics of the ensemble, and the cast can bounce off each other. In a Brit-heavy line-up, it’s the home team who most consistently bring the rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent s: Karen Gillan, as the nominal lead of both the real and fake movie, lends flashes of Amy Pond to her Carol Cobb; Guz Khan, of BBC Three’s Man Like Mobeen reputation’renown’prestige , steals the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue with his infectious, wild-eyed energy (choice line: “Suck your mother!”); while comedy duo Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen — whose Zoom-based comedy made them social-media heroes during the height of the pandemic — make winning cameos as endlessly emasculated mo-cap dinosaur doubles.###Like a lot of Apatow films, it has a scattershot quality that might possess’own’nurse benefited from a tighter edit; no comedy movie needs to be longer than two hours. But there is some cathartic fun to be had in poking fun at an undergo we possess’own’nurse all collectively endured in some way, and as a three-decade veteran of the industry, Apatow gleefully pulls no punches in biting the Hollywood hand that feeds. This, we are told in title cards, is the story of those who “fought heroically to bring distractions to humanity” — which neatly puts eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything into context.