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Exploring every facet of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’ and ‘Like a Surgeon’ to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle, this biopic takes audiences on a truly unbelievable journey through Yankovic’s life and career, from gifted child prodigy to the greatest musical legend of all time.
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Thomas Lennon, Demetri Martin, Patton Oswalt, Jack Black, Daniel Radcliffe, Seth Green, Scott Aukerman, Spencer Treat Clark, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Diedrich Bader, Josh Groban, Julianne Nicholson, Toby Huss, James Preston Rogers, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Paul F. Tompkins, Michael McKean, Johnny Pemberton, Emo Philips, Will Forte, Jorma Taccone, Chad Guerrero, Akiva Schaffer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, David Dastmalchian, Conan O'Brien, Dot Jones, Arturo Castro, Jonah Ray, Rocky Abou-Sakher, Paul Riley Fox, Andrew Steven Hernandez, Quinta Brunson, Jimmy Walker Jr., Gordon Tarpley, Jack Lancaster, Tommy O'Brien, Richard Aaron Anderson, David Bloom, Keanush Tafreshi, Paloma Esparza Rabinov, Jeremy Bolm, Eric Appel, Dean Sharpe, Nina West, Julie Chang, Constantine Rousouli, James Brown III, Chris Ryan, Mike Escamilla, Cesar Ramirez, Omar Estrada, Cesar Chavira, Trenyce, William Guirola, Jacob Lawrence Kreiss, LeChristopher Williams, Lisa Margaroli, Erin O'Shea
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story does for the music biopic what the real Weird Al did for many a hit pop song: it makes fun of it, reveres it, remixes it, makes it weirder, and improves it.
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This whoopie cushion of a film raises the concept of the lowest common denominator up to the highest highs of esoteric tastes and in doing so, gets closer to the essence of artistry than all of its self-important, straight-faced forebears.
80
Eric Appel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is relentlessly silly, wholesome at heart and so stuffed with cameos it might give you the idea that a couple of generations of cool people love this guy.
80
“Weird,” it turns out, isn’t a real biopic. It’s a movie that does to the biopic form what Weird Al did to songs like “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “Beat It” — imitates it, razzes it, throws mud at it, turns it inside out. And all with supreme affection.
75
What Yankovic and director and co-writer Eric Appel have done, brilliantly in spots, is parody Yankovic’s own life while sending up the whole biopic genre. In a messed-up way, the maneuver is kinda poetic. And so very funny.
