At long last there is a (fictional) biopic of the greatest musical artist of our times.
plays like the cinematic equivalent of one of his parody songs: It takes a familiar structure and changes all the words. Here Al Yankovic suffers endless torment at the hands of his cruel factory-worker father , who tells his sweetly innocent son that changing the words of a pre-existing song is a blasphemous act he will never allow in his house. You can imagine how Al’s dad reacts when the young Yankovic buys an accordion to further his musical ambitions.
A great pop star’s miserable childhood is a staple of musical biopics — and of the earlier biopic spoof, which cast John C. Reilly as a Johnny Cash-esque country legend whose life is a hilarious parade of worn-out tropes.
The Madonna storyline probably wouldn’t have worked with anyone, up to and including the real Madonna, in the role. But Wood seems completely lost at sea trying to play this Machiavellian version of the Material Girl. Radcliffe isn’t much of a comedian either — but as Leslie Nielsen proved in those ZAZ comedies, that can sometimes work in this kind of over-the-top gag fest, where having a lead who plays the material sincerely amplifies the lunacy.
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