Is Appel a workmanlike director who mostly stays out of the way and lets his cast deliver the laughs? Yep, though he does try to get fancy a few times, with mixed results. But this fight must be begun with repentance, and we must reform our lives, or we shall fight in vain.
Does it run out of steam at times? Hell, yes. And the pace and dryness of the gags is a dead ringer for the reedited celebrity interviews he used do on “The Weird Al Show” on CBS.ĭoes it have moments of hilarity? Sure does.
The court jester fight scene movie#
Send-ups of movie scenes from “Boogie Nights” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” harks back to what he did in the under-appreciated 1989 comedy movie “UHF” (“Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!”). Weird Al fans, like yours truly, will not only recognize this brand of outrageous humor from his songs, but also his other forays onto the screen. The film’s ultimate joke is that “Weird Al” Yankovic’s entire career was a joke - not just because he made so-daft-they’re-funny versions of other people’s songs, but because what he did made him a court jester of imitation. I have entertained in all the courts of Europe and speak a ready wit in their every tongue. Overall a light-hearted, timeless, family-friendly, adventure that features one of the funniest fight scenes in cinematic history.
After all, I'm the incomparable Giacomo, king of jesters and jester of kings. At the moment, I have a very important mission with the king. “Weird” is witty and inventive enough to sustain what could, in lesser hands, have been a one-joke movie, an “SNL” riff on itself. Hawkins: Look, my good man, you pick your friends and I shall pick mine. Even if the film purports Weird Al’s career as one giant joke, one thing about him is that he bulldozed through the music world with reckless abandon, and he did what he wanted to do on his terms. You don’t get a real sense of truth about Weird Al’s rise to fame, but there is some commentary about the pressures of carving a niche within a strict music industry and how fame can turn people into egomaniacs. Radcliffe is completely game for…whatever the hell this is, but also shows a true love for Yankovic’s work and career, and a true appreciation for this comedic legend. The greatest joy of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is watching Radcliffe as “Weird Al,” complete with oversized glasses, curly hair, and Hawaiian shirts.
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