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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8819063" data-attributes="member: 177">Currently watchable for free on the Roku Channel streaming service.&nbsp; Daniel Radcliffe stars as Weird Al, in a parody of rock biopics.I've been a Weird Al fan for a long, long time, so I was looking forward to this.&nbsp; It doesn't reach the heights of UHF, but it is okay, in a &quot;Good bits in a mixed bag with very unfunny stuff&quot; kind of way.&nbsp; Radcliffe does an excellent job, but some of the material he's got to work with isn't the best.A lot of Al's humor is based in taking a thing, and overblowing it to the point where it becomes absurd.&nbsp; Unfortunately, if you fail to make it absurd, it comes off as... cringey and even triggering.&nbsp; The &quot;abusive parent&quot; trope in the film unfortunately reaches realistic levels, not absurd ones, and there's some violence that also stops at brutal, rather than going to the point of being absurd.&nbsp; I was watching with two folks who had bad parents growing up, and one had to look away, and the other had to leave the room.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8819063, member: 177"] Currently watchable for free on the Roku Channel streaming service. Daniel Radcliffe stars as Weird Al, in a parody of rock biopics. I've been a Weird Al fan for a long, long time, so I was looking forward to this. It doesn't reach the heights of UHF, but it is okay, in a "Good bits in a mixed bag with very unfunny stuff" kind of way. Radcliffe does an excellent job, but some of the material he's got to work with isn't the best. A lot of Al's humor is based in taking a thing, and overblowing it to the point where it becomes absurd. Unfortunately, if you [I]fail[/I] to make it absurd, it comes off as... cringey and even triggering. The "abusive parent" trope in the film unfortunately reaches [I]realistic[/I] levels, not absurd ones, and there's some violence that also stops at brutal, rather than going to the point of being absurd. I was watching with two folks who had bad parents growing up, and one had to look away, and the other had to leave the room. [/QUOTE]

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