This was really funny for like 45 minutes, but unfortunately, its runtime ends up being about an hour longer than that.
This movie never really seemed like it'd be my thing, but I wanted to give it a shot. I'd heard it was pretty funny and a solid parody of music biopics (naturally, there were comparisons to the superior Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), but I've never found Weird Al particularly funny (I'm sorry, I was born after the 1980s were well and truly over), and I don't like Daniel Radcliffe as an actor.
He honestly comes close to triggering my fight-or-flight response whenever he gets intense (whether it's in a serious or comedic role). It's like he's always trying a bit too hard (he really, really, really doesn't want to just be Harry Potter), and he always feels like an actor to me, and seems incapable of disappearing into roles that aren't him playing a farting dead body (I like him in Swiss Army Man). Also, why's he so distractingly ripped in this? Some people just have a screen presence that endears you to them. Radcliffe kind of has anti-charisma on-screen, to me.
Otherwise, I don't know, this is funny for a while, but its humor is so limited. I got really tired of the whole thing at some point in the second half, and the movie comes to a halt whenever it plays more than a line or two of a real Weird Al song. I get the novelty appeal, but once you've heard the chorus once, it just stops being funny (at least to me). Also, I don't blame Evan Rachel Wood (her Madonna impression is quite good), but the film also suffers once Madonna becomes a big part of it. The idea of Madonna being a love interest is funny for a moment or two, but like a Weird Al lyric, it stops being amusing at a point.
I'm in the minority on this, by not liking it, but I wanted to give it a shot. I enjoyed it for a while, but the repetitive humor and Radcliffe eventually made me turn on the movie. I'm sorry - I just don't think this movie's quite as clever as it thinks it is, and it joins The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent as an ambitious 2022 comedy that should've been a lot funnier than it was.
This movie never really seemed like it'd be my thing, but I wanted to give it a shot. I'd heard it was pretty funny and a solid parody of music biopics (naturally, there were comparisons to the superior Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), but I've never found Weird Al particularly funny (I'm sorry, I was born after the 1980s were well and truly over), and I don't like Daniel Radcliffe as an actor.
He honestly comes close to triggering my fight-or-flight response whenever he gets intense (whether it's in a serious or comedic role). It's like he's always trying a bit too hard (he really, really, really doesn't want to just be Harry Potter), and he always feels like an actor to me, and seems incapable of disappearing into roles that aren't him playing a farting dead body (I like him in Swiss Army Man). Also, why's he so distractingly ripped in this? Some people just have a screen presence that endears you to them. Radcliffe kind of has anti-charisma on-screen, to me.
Otherwise, I don't know, this is funny for a while, but its humor is so limited. I got really tired of the whole thing at some point in the second half, and the movie comes to a halt whenever it plays more than a line or two of a real Weird Al song. I get the novelty appeal, but once you've heard the chorus once, it just stops being funny (at least to me). Also, I don't blame Evan Rachel Wood (her Madonna impression is quite good), but the film also suffers once Madonna becomes a big part of it. The idea of Madonna being a love interest is funny for a moment or two, but like a Weird Al lyric, it stops being amusing at a point.
I'm in the minority on this, by not liking it, but I wanted to give it a shot. I enjoyed it for a while, but the repetitive humor and Radcliffe eventually made me turn on the movie. I'm sorry - I just don't think this movie's quite as clever as it thinks it is, and it joins The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent as an ambitious 2022 comedy that should've been a lot funnier than it was.