The Beanie Bubble

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.

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?

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)

The actors not the script makes it work

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

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.

Interesting idea by bringing back to the time I heard of Ty beanies and actually having one that I own. I liked Zach Galifianakis's portrayal of Ty as there wasn't much exaggeration and can show a lot about the troubles one has with love if he did not have that in the first place. I liked Elizabeth Banks in that she brought a charm in the movie, uplifting the company's importance to her. However, towards the end of the movie, it got me in circles with things questionable regarding the plot. While I do not hate this film, there could be things worthwhile to share like comparing the real Ty Warner.

This movie has major continuity errors with its own story and is unable to get basic information right about stuff outside the world of beanies, makes you question how accurate is anything else in this movie, which by the obvious biases this movie portrays its hard to believe any of it is true. The stylistic approach of changing timelines is done poorly,

Taking a different direction from a real-life story to an average comedy. Making it funny, but less interesting.

Ok, now I know this beanie baby thing.... Done