Weird - The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

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Weird - The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

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I've been excited ever since I discovered this was in production, but I wasn't sure why. I think I already saw Weird Al's Behind the Music, and I've read several books about the guy so I just didn't feel like there was anything they could include in a biopic that I didn't know.

But I didn't know about the time Al's father nearly beat a traveling door-to-door accordian salesman to death for exposing their son to the "devil's squeeze box." I didn't know that Al and Madonna were tight -- like, "real" tight. And I never knew that Eat It, one of Al's biggest original hits, was later parodied by Michael Jackson in a song called "Beat It"!

Weird Al, the king of parodies, is back with perhaps his biggest parody of all -- a parody of biopics themselves. Just like every episode of Behind the Music there's betrayal, drug abuse, and violence. It takes a beat or two to establish that viewers may or may not be watching actual events depicted, but once the film takes off -- and it's pretty quickly -- hold on to your sides as they'll be hurting from laughter. Halfway through the film my wife came to see what I was laughing so loudly about.

You'll need more than all your fingers and toes to count all the celebrity cameos. This is UHF all over again, and the jokes continue into and through the credits. The content is a little more adult than UHF, but he -- and we -- are 30 years older now. This time around the jokes are a little darker and cut a little deeper. Almost, Like a Surgeon.
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It wasn't until I was halfway through watching this that I realized it was a parody (I never bothered reading any reviews - went in to it cold).
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This movie is on the list of movies I would turn the sound up if I was flipping channels. The Mrs would watch it just because Harry Potter stars in it.

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nessman wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:01 pm It wasn't until I was halfway through watching this that I realized it was a parody (I never bothered reading any reviews - went in to it cold).
Same. At what point did you realize? The relationship with Madonna hinted at it, then the Michael Jackson Parody I absolutely remember wasn't true because I remembered when he came out with "I'm Fat."
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