rocky romance with Madonna, who then became a Yoko Ono-esque wedge between him and his band. Michael Jackson definitely did not release “Beat It” after Yankovic wrote “Eat It.” Was cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar a Weird Al superfan who offered him 1 billion pesos to perform at his birthday party?
Who’s to say?What Yankovic and director/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.It’s a riot when a teenage Al rebelliously sneaks out of the house to attend a cool-kids polka party, and gets peer-pressured into playing the accordion.Or early on when, as a little kid, he begins to sing “Amazing Grapes” at the dinner table.“Those aren’t the words!,” his cruel father shouts at him.“I know,” says Little Al, who secretly plays accordion in the closet. “I made them better.”Later on, adult Al (Daniel Radcliffe), after creating the tune “My Bologna” from “My Sharona” while making sandwiches, proclaims his life’s dream: “I’ll be the most famous accordion player in an extremely specific genre of music!”Lush orchestral music swells throughout as though cueing us to cry.
And we do, but for a different reason.Radcliffe dons the frizzy wig and thick-framed glasses, and the role fits him like a size-large Hawaiian shirt.
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