Originally Posted by monet View Post
Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by monet View Post
At least Weird AL didn't bow down to the PC Bullshit and make it all inclusive casting every demographic and sexual orientation.
That's right. I saw the new Weird Al movie and it was straight forward with no contrived diversity as you describe. I thought the movie was solid and I appreciate the heads up. The Madonna parody throughout much of the movie was funny as was the fallacious concept that MJ's Beat It was a parody of Al's Eat it.
It seems when I read the user reviews, they either really love it or really hate it.
I got the jokes far more than my uncle did as he has a difficult time comprehending what AL was doing with this parody/satire movie.
AL likes to do this sort of thing pushing viewers or listeners to see how much he can irritate them.
That's fine.
I liked the concept for the first hour.
The movie started to spiral out of control for me once Madonna was kidnapped.
I think Weird AL missed a chance to do his Rambo impersonation from UHF as I was really expecting it and even forecasted it.
But I guess AL did that already so probably didn't want to do it again as he seems to like to do new material.
The ending was a bit abrupt for me and fell flat with the comedy as it was difficult for me to associate real life into this fictitious ending/parody world.
I mean take Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.
Both movies are just as ridiculous, but I can watch them over and over again and laugh at the jokes.
Most likely due to those characters not based off of someone's famous life and career.
I get what Weird AL was doing and how he is making fun of Biopics and Hollywood it is just a bit too much for me knowing most of his real life timeline.
The movie was free and I could feel different in the future but I doubt I would add the dvd to my collection.
I feel a little bad for the salesman with the collapsed lung but I thought the Polka Party and Copper bit was pretty genius.
Great points Monet. I can't help but wonder if Al has a bone to pick with Madonna, the way she was portrayed in the movie. I liked the virtuoso accordion playing at the Polka party by young Al - his fingers were really flying. I am thinking of watching UHF again since it has been a long time since I saw it and it's a lot of fun to see. I really like some of these silly movies because of the care free attitude of them. Another one I liked along those lines was Little Nikky. You probably liked this one too since you liked Billy Madison just as I did.