Weird: The Al Yankovic Story * Mild Spoilers *
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:00 am
******** Mild Spoilers *********
I just finished watching Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and I have to say that I haven't been this impressed with a comedy in years. It's a parody of a rock star biopic loosely "based" on his life. Very, very loose. It's mostly fiction, which is obvious to anyone who lived through the period it depicts. Actually, it should be obvious to anyone.
I've been watching a lot of these rock star biopics lately, so I guess I was primed for this one (by the way, Jersey Girl, my wife and I intend to get to the Elvis movie soon, but we're both sort of semi-motivated to watch it and it's a long time commitment for the time we get together, but I'm sure we'll get to it eventually).
Anyway, I haven't laughed this consistently at a movie in, like I said, years. I was laughing mostly at the tone of it. Kind of reminds me of my experience with SCTV back in the day. It had jokes, but what was funny to me were the characterizations of people popular at that time.
But really what's best about it is the way it parodies rock star biopics. The way I got turned onto it was listening to Weird Al on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast, and Weird Al was saying he was annoyed by the way rock star biopics got facts wrong, or in the wrong order and conflated other events for dramatic effect, so all of that is baked heavily into his movie. I thought it was pure comedy genius.
It's free to watch on the Roku Channel with ads, by the way.
I don't want to give too much away, and I suspect I may have over sold it here, but man, I just had to jot down my reaction to that, because seriously, that was a good laugh for me. I should also say, I didn't have high expectations, which for me always helps.
If you've seen it, what did you think?
I just finished watching Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and I have to say that I haven't been this impressed with a comedy in years. It's a parody of a rock star biopic loosely "based" on his life. Very, very loose. It's mostly fiction, which is obvious to anyone who lived through the period it depicts. Actually, it should be obvious to anyone.
I've been watching a lot of these rock star biopics lately, so I guess I was primed for this one (by the way, Jersey Girl, my wife and I intend to get to the Elvis movie soon, but we're both sort of semi-motivated to watch it and it's a long time commitment for the time we get together, but I'm sure we'll get to it eventually).
Anyway, I haven't laughed this consistently at a movie in, like I said, years. I was laughing mostly at the tone of it. Kind of reminds me of my experience with SCTV back in the day. It had jokes, but what was funny to me were the characterizations of people popular at that time.
But really what's best about it is the way it parodies rock star biopics. The way I got turned onto it was listening to Weird Al on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast, and Weird Al was saying he was annoyed by the way rock star biopics got facts wrong, or in the wrong order and conflated other events for dramatic effect, so all of that is baked heavily into his movie. I thought it was pure comedy genius.
It's free to watch on the Roku Channel with ads, by the way.
I don't want to give too much away, and I suspect I may have over sold it here, but man, I just had to jot down my reaction to that, because seriously, that was a good laugh for me. I should also say, I didn't have high expectations, which for me always helps.
If you've seen it, what did you think?