Format: Roku Channel
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Director: Eric Appel
Is this the greatest rock biopic ever made? Or simply the greatest film ever made?
I literally have no idea how to discuss this movie. To discuss it is to explain the joke, and explaining a joke is... a bad idea.
All I can tell you is: watch this movie. If you ever had any love in your heart for Al Yankovic, this feels like somehow you get the giddy chaos of Al's greatest work distilled, amplified and refracted back at you in the form of a 2 hour movie that stars Daniel Radcliffe as Al, Rainn Wilson as Dr. Demento and Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna. I've seen Radcliffe do comedy, and he's really solid. Seeing ERW turn her considerable talent to comedy was an absolute delight.
If there's no other reason to watch the movie - and there are literally hundreds - watch the movie for the pool party at Dr. Demento's house.
The movie never loses steam, which is just kind of what I assume will happen as comedies eventually need to trade gags for plot to have a satisfying narrative conclusion. It never takes its foot off the gas, gripping your hand like a Thelma to the audience's Louise and heads right for the cliff.
It's a thing of beauty. We're lucky to have it.
Anyway, I guess I'm saying: watch this movie
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