She was. I had to look her up. That was the girl from Westworld??? Wow.
Was. He’s been dead almost 40 years, man. Have some sensitivity.
Real, I think.
They refer to Ruben Valtierra (keyboards) as “the new guy” since he’s only been part of the band since 1992.
Emo is Weird Al’s warmup act on his current tour. We saw it before the pandemic, and I actually liked Emo’s set more.
I enjoyed it, but it certainly isn’t the laugh riot that some people (not here) told me it would be. My favorite scene was at Doctor Demento’s “grotto” with Andy Warhol “I give him 15 minutes” and Salvador Dali and Wolfman Jack acting like a bully.
OK, now I have to see it…
It was pretty brief…
I liked it, but I’ve always liked absurd comedy. Everything was a parody. Every scene, every line, every character was a parody. Like any comedy, some of the bits land, and others don’t.
Watching it with my 9 year old was interesting. She’s more familiar with the Weird Al parody songs than with the original music. She also kept asking if things really happened. She knows this is about a real person, and she knew all of the songs, so it seems real. Plus, a couple weeks ago we watched Elvis, and we kept telling her that (in general) the things in that movie really happened. This was the opposite. None of it really happened that way (except the parts that did). Elvis really died at the end of his movie, so it’s a joke that Weird Al dies at the end of his movie, even though he’s not actually dead.
I didn’t realize that Conan O’Brien was Andy Warhol. Or that Al himself played Tony Scotti.
I also liked Toby Huss (Cotton Hill and Khan Souphanousinphone from King of the Hill) as Al’s father.
I agree with those saying it wasn’t a laugh a minute, but not with that not making it the greatest movie ever. What it was was very very weird in ways it was very hard to predict. It felt slightly long, but at the same time the payoffs every time it went to a new level of weird made it so worth it.
I enjoyed Huss’ performance as well; I though that it came across like what Cotton Hill would be like if he hadn’t lost his shins.
I also enjoyed Lin-Manuel Miranda’s cameo a lot.
Another great story from Al’s Behind the Music episode was his telling of his first professional gig, which was opening for Missing Persons at the Santa Monica Civic Center. He and the band joked that it resembled the scene from The Blues Brothers where they play at Bob’s Country Bunker; the audience spent the whole set pelting them with debris, only cheering when Al got hit by something heavy.
Al ended by noting that he was walking back to his car afterwards, feeling pretty low, when a young kid approached and asked if he was Weird Al. Thinking he might actually have a fan, Al responded yes, to which the kid said, after a beat, “You Suck!”
Someday Madonna will be brought to justice for Al’s murder.
Rainn Wilson really captured the Dr. Demento look (all hail Dr. D)
I thought it was an excellent comedy, had some really funny parts. The Escobar storyline didn’t fit with the rest of it, but I enjoyed the absurdity of it. What makes it funny is parts of it actually are true, and those parts are just as absurd as the rest of it.
I thought I recognized the narrator. It was Diedrich Bader using his voice from Batman: The Brave and The Bold.
See, I initially thought it was Will Arnett. I checked the credits to see.
I knew that had to be some kind of Batman voice.
Weird Al tweeted this advice to a fan in Australia, where Roku is not available on how to watch the movie.
I am not in any way condoning using a VPN or torrent to violate copyright restrictions. I’m just reporting what the Weird One said.
I watched this Tuesday night – certainly better than election coverage. Like many (most?) I found it pleasant enough with some amusing moments, but not laugh-out-loud funny.
Brian
He’s always been pretty jokey about the whole internet piracy thing. He also tweeted the other day that his new album(the soundtrack to the movie) is available:
“where music is bought, streamed, or stolen”