The Beanie Bubble

R

Released Jul 21, 2023

1 hr. 50 min.

Comedy

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Why did the world suddenly treat stuffed animals like gold? Ty Warner was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women grew his masterstroke of an idea into the biggest toy craze in history. "The Beanie Bubble" is an inventive story about what and who we value, and the unsung heroes whose names didn't appear on the heart-shaped tag.

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The Beanie Bubble's cast makes the movie an easy watch, but that enjoyment is lessened by its shallow treatment of the real-life story.

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Torin F

THE BEANIE BUBBLE is an entertaining and thoroughly engaging fact-based film that successfully blends corporate biopic, period drama and female empowerment saga. The film centers around the female founders and their relationships with bizarre billionaire Ty Warner, played by an unrecognizable Zach Galifianakis in an incredible performance. The film allows the cultural absurdity of the Beanie Baby obsession (and by extension, consumer capitalism itself) to fully surface in depiction without heavy-handed moralizing, and highlights the company's influential innovations in online marketing and fan engagement. One of the best recent "cautionary corporate biopics" by far.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/09/24

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Chris D

Yet another streaming platform movie about an American product from the latter half of the 20th century. Familiar faces, check. Nostalgia with mentions of the technology and fashions of the day along to a soundtrack of chart music from the time, check. Non linear storytelling with frequent time jumps back and forth, check. Only in America rags to riches success with an infusion of lighthearted comedy and exaggerated emotion, check. These types of movies are becoming copy and paste, and where will it end, the story of mountain dew? Jolly ranchers the movie etc?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/24

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Kyle M

One of those cases whereas a documentary format is better suited as the "Hidden Figures" of the embellished, stranger-than-fiction phenomenon delivers straight forwardly with little diving and average charisma from the likable cast. (B)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/24

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Steve D

The actors not the script makes it work

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/13/23

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Christian K

Inoffensive but completely ineffective, there are no themes or performances to really talk about here. Definitely a disappointment, a slog to get through.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/19/23

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Jenaro V

Sinceramente desconocía el furor que hubo con estos peluches y esta es una buena forma de conocerla, la historia es entretenida y esta bien desarrollada, entretenida, cumple su cometido.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/13/23

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Kristin Gore

Director

Damian Kulash

Director

Zach Galifianakis

Ty Warner

Elizabeth Banks

Robbie

Sarah Snook

Sheila

Geraldine Viswanathan

Maya

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

The Beanie Bubble eventually runs out of steam. The snappy pace and colorful style — so attractive at first — later become alienating, keeping nearly all the characters locked into one dimension.

Jul 31, 2023

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Wendy Ide

Guardian

The film feels like a vapid cheerleader for late-stage capitalism. It is blithely unquestioning of what the frenzy over glorified Hacky Sacks actually tells us about society.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 30, 2023

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

Zach Galifianakis captures the narcissism of Chicago’s Ty Warner.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 29, 2023

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David Nusair

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The Beanie Bubble takes a sharp turn towards irrelevance in its sluggish and perpetually underwhelming second half...

Rated: 2/4

Jan 13, 2024

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

It is substance free, it is hollow, and it is pointless.

Oct 2, 2023

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Robin Holabird

Robin Holabird

The Beanie Bubble remains a mostly enjoyable cruise into societal weirdness with a touch of female empowerment.

Sep 11, 2023

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Synopsis

Why did the world suddenly treat stuffed animals like gold? Ty Warner was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women grew his masterstroke of an idea into the biggest toy craze in history. "The Beanie Bubble" is an inventive story about what and who we value, and the unsung heroes whose names didn't appear on the heart-shaped tag.

Director: Kristin Gore, Damian Kulash
Executive Producer: Zach Galifianakis, Douglas S. Jones
Screenwriter: Kristin Gore
Distributor: Apple Original Films
Production Co: Apple Original Films, Imagine Entertainment, Apple Studios
Rating: R (Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 21, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 28, 2023
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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