![]() ![]() get off the ground, and later became Warner’s girlfriend Sheila ( Sarah Snook), who married Ty after Robbie kicked him to the curb and Maya (Geraldine Viswanathan), the college undergrad who took a minimum-wage job at Ty’s company, only to become the brains behind its eventual billion-dollar valuation.Īnd, to be fair, Galifianakis is damn good at playing a beguiling, flamboyant toy tycoon, which he does in The Beanie Bubble without a stitch of irony. ![]() There’s Robbie ( Elizabeth Banks), the woman who helped Ty Inc. Warner was a charismatic and driven entrepreneur, and like most enterprising men, he had little concern for the women around him. ![]() The Beanie Bubble is based on Zac Bissonnette’s 2015 book The Beanie Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, a title that itself seems a tad misleading, given how relatively tame Ty Warner’s misdeeds actually were, according to the film. But like other recent Hollywood efforts to capitalize on that sweet, wistful feeling, nostalgia can’t take the place of a decent script and an engrossing story-no matter how cute the object at the center of it is. The movie does touch on some of your old favorites: Legs the Frog, Spooky the Ghost, and even a brief shot of the very mythic, yet not-at-all-expensive-to-buy-today Princess Diana bear. Unfortunately, it’s also a fitting descriptor for The Beanie Bubble, a beyond-bland corporate biopic that’s as soft and trendy as its titular sensational stuffed animals.įor those of us lucky enough to be cognizant during the Beanie Babies boom of the 1990s, The Beanie Bubble will certainly conjure a decent amount of pleasant nostalgia. Over and over throughout The Beanie Bubble-Apple TV+’s second cash-in on the seemingly undying corporate biopic trend this year, streaming July 28-characters repeat one word: “understuffed.” It’s an adjective used by toy company magnate Ty Warner, played here by Zach Galifianakis, to describe the signature product in his eponymous plush empire, Beanie Babies. ![]()
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