Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - Biopic of Weird Al starring Harry Potter and premiering on... The Roku Channel?

The only thing I'm not the biggest fan of is Weird Al himself clearly doing the singing voice.

Half the fun of these kinds of biopics is the actor being shit at replicating the original's singing voice. (And even in the much more rare case where they're *not* shit, that's fun too.)
 
It can't be worse and more revisionist than the Freddy Mercury or Elvis Presley biopics, at any rate.
 
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This movie is a great combination of funny and retarded, and I definitely recommend giving it a watch. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but I still enjoyed myself. I definitely wasn't expecting Al to kill a bunch of people with his bare hands.

That said, I also very strongly recommend pirating it, because watching it on Roku was an absolute pain in the ass. Every 5-10 minutes, the video would start buffering, and you can't just wait it out. You have to wait five minutes and then refresh the page once or twice. If you're lucky, that will be enough. If not, you need to wait another five minutes.
Edit: Apparently those are supposed to be ad breaks. Their streaming service is just such a piece of shit that the ads don't fucking load the majority of the time.
 
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Banana Hammock said:
That said, I also very strongly recommend pirating it, because watching it on Roku was an absolute pain in the ass. Every 5-10 minutes, the video would start buffering, and you can't just wait it out. You have to wait five minutes and then refresh the page once or twice. If you're lucky, that will be enough. If not, you need to wait another five minutes.
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Al himself is cool with this.
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The movie is the funniest thing I've seen in years:
Weird Al dies in the end.
 
My dad was laughing during it, so I have to take everyone's word for it it's actually a good watch. I briefly saw the scene where his dad's the devil telling him he's worthless and that even God or whoever was not being helpful, but I had no idea how to process it.

I guess it's not the full retelling of how Weird Al got his own Weird Al Show, then.
 
Dunno why I didn't post this earlier...
 
I'm honestly kind of surprised that a man Al's age knows what a VPN and torrent are. He's in his early 60s.
 
I enjoyed the movie a lot. I think it could've done better with different direction, maybe?

I felt like (style-wise) it didn't commit enough to being a parody of a biopic or a regular comedy movie, if that makes sense. It's in this uncanny valley that makes it harder for me to really love it. Maybe if it took itself more seriously like the edgy mock teaser trailer he'd play at his shows, it would've worked better. It needed to be a little more grounded from a filming/editing standpoint.

All of those goofy events could've still happened and they would've been way funnier if the movie was shot more like Forrest Gump, rather than a typical comedy or cartoon.

Oh, and holy fuck is Daniel Radcliffe annoying. I didn't know much about him as I hadn't seen the Harry Potter movies, but his voice was so grating and whiny — not nearly as charming or distinct as Weird Al's. Not helping matters was the unlikable approach they deliberately took with his character. When Al's real voice came out of him during the songs, it was more awkward and immersion-breaking than funny.

Like I said, I enjoyed it. I just think there was lots of missed potential.
 
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