[1] Although the film attracted little controversy in its initial release, it attained increased notoriety in 1999 when the Reform Party of Canada launched an attack on the government of Jean Chrétien because the film had received production funding from various government agencies, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Telefilm Canada and the Ontario Film Development Corporation,[2] with party critics demanding to know why the government was funding what it called "lesbian porn".
[9] Reviewing the original screening for Variety, Brendan Kelly wrote that "the pic’s hip politics, the presence of porn activist Annie Sprinkle in a droll turn as God, and the highly sellable concept of a politically correct smut film will likely allow this to make a mark in specialized settings.
"[1] On the television broadcast, Stephen Cole of the National Post wrote that "Bubbles Galore isn't the worst, or even the most obscene film ever to receive Canadian arts funding.
No, that distinction still belongs to the 1980 film Circle of Two, which featured a frolic between a close-to-embalmed Richard Burton and teen freckle-face Tatum O'Neal.
[10] In his 2003 book A Century of Canadian Cinema, Gerald Pratley wrote that "no one need have worried about this silly work in which several nude ladies try to make a porn picture.