- Yo I just had this crazy idea for a movie! Bubbles plus parkour! What do you think?
- Yeah thats great I had been working on a nice cute girl design.
- We can also add some nice music! They liked that in Vivy.
And so the whole team puts their heart and a lot of passion into this project, making crazy visuals, scenes and score only to realize at a half way point:
- Shouldn't we make some kind of plot for this?
Your enjoyment of Bubble is gonna depend on how much you can ignore a lack of story or real characters for the sake of beautiful eye candy.
This movie doesn't really have a story, everything serves as a setup for some crazy next scene they envisioned in Wit which is why there is a strong feeling of randomness while watching Bubble. We need a cool parkour scene? Let's introduce some randoms which kidnap one of the characters for views. We want crazy cosmic bubbles? Let's just make some bubble portal in the middle of Tokyo which leads to some other dimension or something.
This ideology extends to characters.
Authors introduce million characters because they had nice designs for them and wanted more people in parkours, which means they don't develop any of them making them into some kind of stereotype for a character. We also have our main characters:
Cute girl and of course Cool dude.
Cute girl learns how to speak. On the other hand Cool dude was for 5 seconds an Edgy dude before becoming a Cool dude so there is something. Cute girl and Cool dude become friends and I think fall in love.
That's about it.
Visually this is incredible. Beautiful landscapes of flooded Tokyo, weird gravity, all the different bubbles make gorgeous scenery with something interesting always on screen. Artwork is elevating this movie into a spectacle which is enriched with a feel of mystery by the mesmerising soundtrack. Direction of parkour sequences and the animation in them make it all engaging despite action having no stakes at all. Unfortunately some of the moves they do are so outrageously impossible it takes me out of the scene.
It is a shame that they don't have any good writers in the studio because this could have been a masterpiece.
