Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

2022

1h 48m

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Music

Musical

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Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird Al" Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician and sex symbol of our time. With Evan Rachel Wood and Rainn Wilson.

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Critics Consensus

Suitably silly, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story spoofs the standard biopic formula with all the good-natured abandon fans will expect.

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Audience Says

Fast-paced, funny, and star-studded, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is the not-quite-biopic that "Weird Al" fans have been waiting for.

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A.A. Dowd

Digital Trends

05/02/2023

Walk Hard got to a lot of this stuff 15 years ago, and with much more precision.

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Craig Mathieson

The Age (Australia)

03/02/2023

It’s a collection of sketches where the whole is less than the pieces.

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Scott Tobias

The Reveal

12/19/2022

2.5/5

A goofy made-up plot about Al’s relationship with Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) sends the film off on an unfunny tangent from which it never returns.

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Maxance Vincent

Film Speak

Jul 13

A-

As soon as Weird: The Al Yankovic Story begins, you have no idea how it’ll end, or what it will introduce next.

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Joseph Tomastik

Loud and Clear Reviews

11/02/2024

4.5/5

The same way Weird Al takes the familiar framework and composition of a song but replaces its meaning with something purposefully silly and outlandish, Weird does the exact same thing to the typical biopic formula.

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

07/01/2024

3/4

Half the fun of Weird is enjoying the way Yankovic and director Steve Appel skewer the traditional musical bio-pic.

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keven q

@kevenquinlan Dec 7

It's a loosely based biopic of a person who parodied music. It ended up being better than expected. It's worth a watch and a add to your collection.

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Hunter A.

@Fatal_Error_Music Oct 13

I actually went into this expecting a serious biopic, have no idea why, but I did, it takes all expectations and flips them upside down, very funny movie and exactly what you would expect from al

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Adam B

Aug 24

This is an incredible movie. From start to finish you never know what's coming next. Weird Al has parodied his own life this this biopic. It doesn't get more meta than that. The cast is filled to the brim with classic A list comedians and actors who display incredible skills in their performances. It's corny, it's goofy, it's silly, and it's a bit weird. It is the perfect movie to tell the "True story" of Weird Al.

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Aug 11

Hard eye rolls after seeing Al fueling himself in fantasy that isn't entertaining or funny.

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Maurice "Gumplyt" F

Jul 30

es muy divertida la pelicula

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Tim M

@tgmacman Jul 27

Living up to its titular adjective and figure, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a hysterical sendup of the music biopic in all its falsehoods and eccentricities.

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Synopsis

Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird Al" Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician and sex symbol of our time. With Evan Rachel Wood and Rainn Wilson.

Director: Eric Appel
Producer: Lia Buman, Mike Farah, Joe Farrell, Tim Headington, Whitney Hodack, Max Silva, Weird Al Yankovic
Screenwriter: Eric Appel, Weird Al Yankovic
Distributor: The Roku Channel
Production Co: Funny or Die, The Roku Channel, Tango Entertainment
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Musical
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 4, 2022
Runtime: 1h 48m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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