Directed by Eric Appel
Screenplay by Al Yankovic & Eric Appel
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Diedrich Bader, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rainn Wilson, Julianne Nicholson, Toby Huss, Thomas Lennon, and Evan Rachel Wood
The trailer was bonkers. I knew going into the movie that it was not going to be a biopic. Maybe that is the reason that I enjoyed the movie for its silliness and being over the top.
Snippets of Weird Al's real (Radcliffe) life are mentioned in the movie. You don't know what was real and what was fiction. It seems that Al has a typical childhood when playing the accordion came naturally to him. People saw that he had talent and then the parody songs are mentioned. The action takes a complete 180. It falls into a fever dream that I didn't want to wake up from.
The biopic is always some desperate attempt to get nominated or win Oscars. Hollywood has at least five of them a year. It's tiring. This movie is not the run of the mill biopic. This is taking chances. It deviates from the boring chronological drivel Tinseltown churns out. I want to see more movies taking chances like this one moving forward.
Rating: 7/10
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