1.0 out of 5 star rating<\/span> <\/span> <\/div> <\/div> Earlier this week, Judd Apatow deleted a tweet in which he made the rather outlandish claim that Will Smith \u201ccould have killed\u201d Chris Rock as a result of the now-infamous slap at Sunday night\u2019s Oscars.<\/p>\n
It was a pretty embarrassing overreaction to an admittedly shocking moment, but it can no longer be considered the most cringe-worthy part of the director\u2019s week \u2013 not after the release of his inept new Netflix comedy The Bubble.<\/p>\n
For Apatow, who has produced and directed many of the most successful studio comedies this side of the Millennium, this dreadful pandemic-themed film is the inarguable low point of his career \u2013 and one of the worst films of 2022 so far.<\/p>\n
The Bubble\u2019s premise is that Cliff Beasts 6 \u2013 the latest instalment of the \u201c23rd biggest action franchise of all time\u201d \u2013 is starting production at an opulent English hotel, where due to the ongoing pandemic the various cast members must bubble up for the duration of the shoot.<\/p>\n
The cast for the fictional film is led by Carol Cobb (Karen Gillan) a glamorous A-lister fresh from a disastrous turn in a critically-panned film called Jerusalem Rising, in which she played a half-Israeli, half Palestinian woman \u2013 despite the fact that she herself is a white American.<\/p>\n
Early on, we learn that Cobb had sat out the last Cliff Beasts film, but has been persuaded to return to the franchise by her agent (Rob Delaney) in a desperate bid to rescue her plummeting reputation.<\/p>\n