Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - Reviews

...a satirical biopic about the parody musician's life and heightened versions of his runnings-in with celebrities like Madonna, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Demento, and more.

Like any good “Weird Al” song parody, Weird takes the music-biopic template and transforms it into something utterly absurd. The result is a polka-popping, piss-taking joy.

A jolly romp filled with songs, jokes and clever twists on a well-known genre, it is plenty of fun...

...a pop music phantasmagoria that’s equally egoless and entertaining.

This cameo-packed, silliness-stacked movie plays to all the beats of a standard music biopic, with hilarious results.

Daniel Radcliffe rips up the music movie rulebook.

...demonstrates the difficulty of sustaining a comic rhythm for more than the three-to-five-minute length of a song.

...in its best moments, Weird has the zingers of a Naked Gun movie (Yankovic had cameos in three of them) and the offbeat humour of 80s’ TV series The Comic Strip Presents.

It’s mildly amusing, and Evan Rachel Wood is great fun as an evil Madonna.

...played by a frizzy-wigged, very game Daniel Radcliffe, whose main response to being cast in this cheerfully slapdash faux-biopic is to look like he’s having the time of his life.