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‘Bubble & Squeak’ Review: Cabbages Are Banned in Quirky Sundance Comedy, but the Laughs Shouldn’t Be
Himesh Patel and Sarah Goldberg play a pair who made things difficult by smuggling contraband into the quirky country they chose for their honeymoon.
Set in a small, unnamed Slavic nation (most of which appears to have been shot in Estonia), “Bubble & Squeak” begins with a silly premise, with the interrogation (by an eccentrically disfigured Steven Yeun) of a newlywed American couple accused of smuggling cabbages into a country where the vegetables are expressly forbidden. Over the course of a very long hour and a half, Twohy reveals that Declan is an ultra-cautious kind of guy (he wears a watch that counts down how many days he’s expected to live, maximizing that number by playing it safe). We get a clue as to their dynamic — what it’s lacking and the way someone more exciting threatens their young marriage — when an admitted cabbage smuggler named Norman (Dave Franco) appears camouflaged in a brown bear costume.
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