From Robert Scucci
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As an enthusiastic musician, I always had contempt for shows like Behind the musicAs well as the rush of musical biopics that have spoiled the cinema landscape in the past 20 years. The main reason why I do not like this form of revisionist history is how many important details are left out for the pace and so many intermediate moments in the career of an artist are incomplete, open or almost exaggerated. Strange: the Al Yankovic storyWritten and developed by “Weird al” Yankovic himself and with Daniel Radcliffe in the title role, was created with people like me who are fed up with lampoons the entire genre for the love of the game.
From modest beginnings to the superstar
Initially set his tone as a serious rock -androll -biopic, Strange: the Al Yankovic story explains the modest beginnings of the icon when his mother Mary (Julianne Nicholson) secretly buys an accordion from a traveling seller (Thomas Lennon), very much to disapproval his father Nick (Toby Huss). Al is alienated by his parents after his rebellious side manifests himself in the form of a performance at an illegal polka party and his father believes that he will never be the company man he wants because his mind has been polluted for music .
Old with his roommates, who lived with his roommates years later, the parody of songs he hears on the radio begins what escalates to play bars in bikers, and finally leads to his introduction to his mentor Dr. Dementia (Rainin Wilson). As a passion for bizarre polka parody, a full-grown career as a multi-platinum artist who has a lifestyle of Rock’n’Roll excess.
Serve as a warning story about the unchecked ego, which at the height of their popularity is experienced like the many biopics that we have all seen before. Strange: the Al Yankovic story not only captures the curly-haired accordion-playing Maestros meteoric climb to fame, but also the beginning of its doom. When AL deals with the fact Michael Jackson This can end his career very well, as he knows.
An exercise in tremendous exaggeration
Strange: the Al Yankovic story takes every single beat you would find in films like Go the line or The dirt And turns her on the side of the head, throws a few machine guns for a good measure and somehow ends in an exaggerated action film, in which Daniel Radcliffes Al Yankovic With a torn belly, has to remove Pablo Escobar (Arturo Castro), who has the love of his life , Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) for shameful reasons.
You read that correctly; Strange: the Al Yankovic storyLike the man, the myth, the music of the legend itself, is a parody of the highest order, which every single musical biopic with sense of humor, which looks like this for the slipper. Daniel Radcliffewho recently became one of my favorite actors because he was ready to take over bizarre roles like the Fart announcement in the body Swiss army manknew that the task was entered into this film and looks as much as “Weird al” Yankovic that they think they were actually related.
If you are fed up that rock stars are kept on a base for posterity in the form of a dramatic musical biopics, then Strange: the Al Yankovic story Should be the next film that you stream free on the Roku channel.
