Finally equipped with a reason to rebel, Jimmy flees his Palmdale, Calif., home to head for Niagara Falls to rescue his damsel in distress. Equally inexplicably, latter falls for the sweet-natured but ineffectual lad, who remains unassertive until he learns Chloe is going to marry crude musician Mark (Dave Sheridan).
Strangely, given her watchdog vigilance, Mom allows Jimmy (Jake Gyllenhaal) an electric guitar and regular visits from next-door hottie Chloe (Marley Shelton). Ignoring the subject’s potential for ironic observations on the theme of contemporary parental overprotectiveness, first-time scripters Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio instead opt for easy jibes at Mom’s Catholic and Republican affiliations before indulging in boner jokes and other cheap shots that rightly indicate freshness of imagination will not be among the film’s attributes. Looking from one angle like a nutty variant on current thriller “The Others,” which is about a mother who cloisters her kids in a house for fear of solar contamination, “Bubble Boy” is rooted in the similarly paranoid compulsion of a prim and proper mom (Swoosie Kurtz) to keep her son “pure” from the pernicious influences of the modern world on the excuse that he was born without any immunities.
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