WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY
Getting into the groove.
★★★★
OUT 4 NOVEMBER (ROKU) / CERT TBC / 108 MINS
DIRECTOR Eric Appel
CAST Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Will Forte, “Weird Al” Yankovic
PLOT The supposedly true story of “Weird Al” Yankovic (Radcliffe). After being shunned by his parents, Yankovic is discovered by Dr Demento (Wilson) and becomes a parody-song superstar. But could a relationship with pop star Madonna (Wood) destroy everything?
“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC has been around for so long (his career began in 1976, aged just 16) that it’s easy to overlook that moniker: he really is quite weird, isn’t he? Think of Yankovic and a bizarre melting pot of trademarks comes to mind: the perm, the Hawaiian shirts, the virtuoso accordion-playing, the wild-eyed stare — and, fundamentally, a career’s worth of delightfully demented spoof songs, from ‘Like A Surgeon’ to ‘Amish Paradise’.