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We have split movies into 8 different categories that we individually score to come to a final
All Bros letter grade.
The 8 categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes, and then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
All of those categories get magically added up and spit through our algorithm that gives
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so we can have like a ranking.
So with that if you have not seen Weird the Al Yankovic Story.
We are about to spoil the entire freaking thing so please do yourself a favor go check
this out.
You can watch it for free with ads on the Roku channel app or Roku app whatever it may
be.
If you have a Roku you can freaking watch it or you can just like I downloaded the app
and then immediately downloaded it or deleted it after.
Oh you didn't keep it?
No.
How come?
And I just didn't don't like dealing with ads.
You know fair enough.
You know honestly because I watched this with Christina and I was hoping that since she
has a Roku TV that maybe that would bypass commercials.
Nope.
I was like that's some bullshit.
Yeah I mean at least commercials weren't too bad.
That's true it just sucks that like I mean yeah there weren't a lot in there but like
it was an hour not an hour it was a minute and a half break every single freaking time.
So that kind of sucked.
We have gotten spoiled.
We have.
Yeah we Christina we're talking about this.
Well okay when I think about like commercials when we had to watch them as a kid most of
the commercials we watched were on like Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and those
commercials were actually fun.
They made them entertaining for kids.
Ish.
As we got older they got to more bullshit like commercials.
But dude like now I would rather pay a couple extra bucks to avoid ads.
Oh same here.
Like ads are so freaking annoying.
Like the ones on YouTube like I will fight YouTube and their ads till the day I die just
because I have some sense of like I don't have to put up with this.
Like I don't have to pull like don't bully me.
But whenever it's like a Hulu and like.
Dude the sad thing is like even if it's like a 20 second ad and there's no skip button
on YouTube I'm like this is fucking bullshit.
I know dude.
Are you serious?
Nine times out of ten I'll freaking skip to a different video.
I'm like freaking screw you YouTube.
Oh god.
Yeah dude like it's so funny because like Iris is growing up in a world that ads are
very optional.
Like she's not going to know what the hell commercial is.
Nope.
Like she even like.
She loves watching Peppa Pig which Peppa Pig makes me want to peel my skin off.
Same.
And.
I'm not saying I watch that.
No.
I've only watched it when like I watched it when I was over there with you and Iris.
That's the only time I promise I'm not watching that shit by myself.
Dude there is an episode or there's a few episodes actually that include this character
in from Peppa Pig and her voice is like nails on a freaking chalkboard.
Like it makes me so like physically upset.
I have to hold back like trying to like chuck something at my TV.
Like it is the most infuriating voice on the planet.
Like I'll have to send you a clip of it.
Yeah because I got to hear this shit.
It's bad.
It is really freaking bad.
But anyway.
Yeah.
So like there's been like an occasional time where the it takes her to like this kid friendly
program on like the fire TV when she's watching Peppa because like she can watch it on like
Paramount.
Then there's a couple of seasons on Amazon Prime and then there's a couple through this
like kid friendly app on fire TV.
So she'll watch some episodes of Peppa on that but she gets mad when the freaking ads
come on.
Like she'll like if I'm like sitting at the table.
Yeah if I'm sit or if I'm working in the office or she's like or in the bedroom and I'll hear
her like come like crying.
She's like Daddy Peppa.
Peppa Peppa.
And then I'll like walk out and the ad will end and then Peppa will start playing and
she's like oh and then she'll sit down and watch it like normal.
And I'm like girl you're in for a rude awakening when we go and sit in front of a normal TV.
Oh man.
Did imagine when she's old enough to like really understand going to the movies and
she has to sit through the previous.
Oh good Lord.
Okay the movie theater previews not as bad as TV commercials.
Okay fair enough.
Fair enough.
Good point.
Yeah so I'm freaking I'm excited to see how her evolution of commercial hating grows.
Keep tracking this because I want to know about this.
Keep tabs on this for me.
And we'll have like a full on Netflix documentary on how commercials affect the new generation
of kids.
Oh my God yes please.
That'd be amazing.
Be freaking hilarious.
Anyway so yeah if you have not seen Weird the Aliankovic story go check it out on the
Roku app and then come back and listen to this one.
Because this one's worth not spoiling I would say.
Yes.
So with that you have been properly warned so if you listen past this point and anything
spoiled for you too bad.
So without further ado reading with Rose everyone.
Yeah I already know one that if I hadn't have watched this movie I would have screwed up
because for the longest time I thought he pronounced his last name Yankovic not Yankovic.
I made that same mistake for years.
And then someone pointed out like no it's just a C at the end.
It's Yankovic and I'm like oh okay.
I wish that would have clicked in my head that yeah Jonathan there's no H so yeah of
course it's not Yankovic it's Yankovic.
Well no someone just pointed it out to me like if that person didn't point it out I
probably would still be calling him Yankovic.
Okay fair enough.
Okay as a child Alfred Yankovic becomes interested in parading songs against his father's wishes.
Al's mother secretly purchases an accordion for him but his father destroys it when Al
is caught and Nelisset Polka party the straining Al's relationship with his parents.
Living with his roommates Steve, Jim and Bermuda Alfred tries to join bands as an accordion
player but is constantly rejected while hearing my Sharona on the radio and fixing a bologna
sandwich I'm sorry bologna sandwich.
Do you say bologna or bologna?
Bologna.
Okay.
You know when they started saying oh do you want a bologna sandwich I'm like what the
hell is a bologna sandwich?
It's bologna.
Yeah.
Alfred is inspired to write my bologna.
He sends the song to a local radio DJ who puts it on the air immediately.
He then goes to Scotty Brothers Records where the brothers mock him but are willing to reconsider
if Alfred gains more experience.
Alfred performs I Love Rocky Road for the first time at a biker bar his roommate stepping
in to fill out his band and make the performance a success.
Dude did you like was there any part of you that thought this was like the true story?
I thought it was like telling like a decent amount of what was true.
It was the part when it got to the freaking like whole like mob and like the in the jungle
shit that I'm just like yeah this this ain't all real.
Dude so little of this is actually real.
Like it would.
I should have believed Al his face like at the beginning when he introduces this movie
he's just like oh yeah and everything is totally real.
Like why do I have a feeling you're lying to me Al?
I'll let you like continue on but I actually looked up like okay what's real what's not
out of this and a shocking amount of stuff in this was false.
Damn.
Well that sucks.
So Alfred performs I Love Rocky Road for the first time at a biker bar his roommate stepping
in to fill out his band and make the performance a success.
Alfred catches the interest of Dr. Demento who offers to be his manager while suggesting
he go by the stage name Weird Al.
At a party hosted by Dr. Demento the doctors rival Wolfman Jack dares Al to prove himself
by writing a spoof of Another One Bites the Dust with John Deacon present.
Al comes up with Another One Rides the Bus and pressing the celebrities in attendance.
Al lands his record contract and his debut album goes multiplatinum with the original
artist getting a Yankovic bump in record sales and Al being fated?
Fated?
I don't know.
F-E-T-E-D?
F-A-T-E-D?
Sorry F-E-T-E-D.
Fetted?
Okay.
So fetted by April.
Wow.
Fitted by Oprah Winfrey.
Al calls home to find his father is still dismissive of him.
Dr. Demento suggests Al try to make his own original song which Al refuses.
However, after Dr. Demento gives Al guacamole laced with LSD he comes up with an original
new song which becomes his next hit, Eat It.
Madonna in search of the Yankovic bump starts a relationship with Al to convince him to
parody her song Like a Virgin.
So he insists he now only writes original songs.
Dr. Demento and Al's bandmates warn him that Madonna is a bad influence but they
continue their romance.
Just before a major show Al learns that Michael Jackson has taken Eat It and parried it as
Beat It.
Which angers him since he believes people will assume Eat It is a parody of Beat It.
A drunken Al suffers a near fatal car accident and is rushed to the hospital where he comes
up with Like a Surgeon after regaining consciousness.
He premieres the song at his show that same night while still heavily injured.
But when he is reminded that Eat It is the last song for the show he gets drunk on stage,
insults the crowd, and is arrested for lewdness.
Once released Al confesses to Madonna that he fears he has alienated everybody who cared
about him and that she is the only one he has left.
Suddenly Madonna is captured by agents of Pablo Escobar who is a huge fan of Al and
uses the kidnapping to coerce him to play for his 40th birthday party.
Al flies to Columbia and goes on a rampage.
I totally believe all this was real.
No doubt.
Al goes on a rampage to break into Escobar's compound where he confronts the drug lord.
After refusing to play a song for him he gets into a shootout and kills Escobar and his
mercenaries to free Madonna.
With the kingpin dead Madonna tries to talk Al into giving up music and helping her take
over his drug empire but Al rejects her.
Al returns home to work in his father's factory.
Al's father admits that Al never belonged in that line of work and secretly supported
Al's chosen path.
The elder, Yankovic, reveals he grew up in an Amish community and was excommunicated
for taking up the accordion prompting him to prevent Al from making the same mistake.
Al then brings his father's song Amish Paradise to the stage winning him a major award in
1985 before being assassinated on stage by one of Madonna's henchmen.
And that is totally true.
If I didn't know anything about weird Al Yankovic that he was still kicking and everything
I would have totally believed this ending that like holy shit he actually was killed
what the fuck.
Dude right?
This movie?
I thought okay I seriously thought that we were going to get another Rocketman or a Bohemian
Rhapsody.
That's what I thought.
I was not expecting us to get a parody.
Which kind of makes me feel like the fool.
Like oh you weren't expecting a parody from weird Al?
You know what?
Fair enough.
I never thought of it that way.
So very very very little of this movie is actually true.
One of the only things that I was able to figure out that was actually true was the
Yankovic bump.
Okay interesting.
Yeah other than that basically everything was was false.
Oh that is freaking amazing.
So it's just making a joke.
Like you said it's just kind of making a parody of what these rock star biopics are like.
Like how it's just covered with controversy and the way that they instant rise to fame.
It's just all this crazy stuff.
So it's the same thing with him.
Instant rise to fame.
Freaking gets into drugs and stuff and goes down a super dark path and then crazy and
it happens and then he's like boom ends on the peak of his career.
And it's like yeah no.
Weird Al is not an alcoholic.
He has never used drugs.
There was a rumor that him and Madonna were dating at some point but that was completely
false.
Holy shit.
Okay.
His parents were actually very supportive of the direction that he wanted to go as a child
and actually allowed him to.
It was actually his mother's idea to let him learn the accordion when he was like six years
old because it was her thought that like oh he could be a one man band.
And his dad supported it as well?
Yeah his dad was totally cool with it.
What the shit.
He'll so lied to.
This is bullshit.
Here I'm thinking oh my god he had the worst parents in the world.
I mean of course before the redemption arc at the end but still.
His parents were like the most kind and understanding people on the planet.
And let's see what else.
He didn't go to any like shady polka parties?
Yeah dude when they did that like oh when they brought him to his parents and they're
just like I'm sorry to disturb you this late at night but we found your son at a polka
party.
I'm like what the hell is so special about a polka party?
It was just kids just having fun and dancing.
There wasn't even any drinking.
Yeah like a bunch of teens from the 80s are going to sit around having a polka party.
Let's see what else.
I think we can all like figure out that he did not travel to what was it Costa Rica or
wherever the hell he went.
No Columbia.
Columbia.
Yeah he did not travel to Columbia and assassinate Pablo Escobar.
Ah damn it.
Pablo Escobar never kidnapped Madonna.
Let's see.
And yeah Michael Jackson's song Beat It did come out before weird Al Jankovic's version
of Eat It.
Dude that was the whole, when they said that I swear to God Beat It came out before Eat
It.
No because that's the...
Dude me and Kristy were watching this movie.
I was, she was thinking you know what like I, because she doesn't watch a lot of music
biopics but she's just like I wish that like it wasn't like bouncing around so much.
I wish that it would like you know like maybe put a little more focus in like some areas.
I'm like yeah it's nothing like hanging like Rocketman or like Straight Outta Compton or
these other music biopics have done it and I'm just like well yeah now it makes freaking
sense.
That is freaking hilarious dude.
Did you like both question whether or not like Beat It came out like after?
Yeah dude we did.
That's dude I can't wait to texture after this.
Just be like hey guess what it was basically a freaking parody.
Nothing happened.
None of this shit.
It was real.
Yeah.
Never got coerced into drugs.
Never got coerced into alcoholism.
Like he's had a very like uncontroversial life.
That's awesome.
Good on you Weird Al.
But why you gotta freaking lie to us like this?
And then he was never assassinated on stage.
Damn that's the biggest thing that I really believed.
Oh my gosh dude that was the funniest shit I think I've ever seen.
Dude especially for like me and my sister were getting like mad of like how everyone
was just oblivious to this man holding a big ass machine gun in the audience with the magazine
just round his shoulder.
I'm like are you freaking kidding me?
Like I get this was before like you know like the big shootings like Columbine and stuff
but like come on.
Yeah like nope.
Like it was just kind of to poke fun at all of the other like rock star music or biopics
that have come out.
That is freaking amazing.
Yeah dude I loved this freaking story so much.
Like I knew it was like total bullshit and yes it definitely jumped around a lot.
I wish I knew it was total bullshit.
So I think that I think I think story wise if I'm thinking just the story as a whole
it did have a lot of moments where it was jumping from like thing to thing and I think
I'm gonna put my writing score like a lot higher than whatever I give the story.
That's fair.
That's absolutely fair.
Because the writing is like what I consider like all of like the weird the lies and like
small little details.
Oh freaking um yeah here's some other things.
Dr. Demento did not give Weird Al his name.
This is like he wasn't he wasn't even his mentor like that.
This is freaking bullshit.
That's all I gotta say.
What was it Jack Black's character that was actually his mentor?
I don't know.
I was totally kidding.
But shit what was his name?
Is Jack something?
Wolfman Jack.
Oh my god he was actually a real person.
Oh my gosh.
Who's a disc check?
Huh.
Okay.
I thought he was fake too.
But apparently everyone that like made cameos and whatever were real.
Holy shit.
Okay.
So this was freaking hilarious dude.
I think despite the jumping around and all like just the crazy shit that happened I feel
like the story was pretty cohesive in a way.
Oh yeah absolutely.
And it's just like I think my only fault was the jumping around like from period to period.
I don't know for me with now knowing it's mostly a parody like you I might even say
that this one might be a little more comprehensive than some other like actual music biopics
that we've gotten just because it's so out there.
Like yeah I would definitely agree with you there.
It's really odd for me to like review a parody of something because you got to think of how
like the original like what a typical thing or a typical film like this would be like
versus what this is like.
And I think the way this movie excels is on writing between the two.
So I think with story I think it was a pretty above average story.
Like it fooled like it completely it did the job in like fooling us.
Like I feel like you went in like I went in knowing like there was like especially with
Weird Al's little like oh yeah this is 100% true.
I'm like I'm pretty sure it's not going to be.
And so I went into it with like some hesitation like okay what's real what's not.
And so I 100% a lot more of this was true than it ended up being.
Like I'm pretty sure there wasn't a freaking pool party with that John Deacon was at with
Alice Cooper and Andy Warhol like artists and rock stars and freaking Elvira like what?
And don't forget Pee Wee Herman.
Oh yeah.
Dude the freaking cameos in this are ridiculous.
Yeah like god damn.
Like it was insane.
Funny enough one of the trivia things that I read Freddie Mercury was actually supposed
to be where was actually supposed to be there instead of John Deacon.
Really okay.
Yeah but when they went and asked Queen if they could have Freddie Mercury in the movie
they said no but we'll give you John Deacon.
And they're like whatever that works John Deacon is actually the one that wrote Another
One Bites the Dust.
Oh okay so yeah that works.
I can understand why they said no.
I don't really.
Yeah I get it.
I do too.
But yeah I thought it was good.
Like it did its job.
It was entertaining.
It went a little off the rails at the end but it kind of got back on track and I was
like okay like I can deal with this.
This is yeah like it went back like the freaking Pablo Escobar shit went a little too out there
for me and I'm like okay like this seems fake.
Like I've never watched freaking Narcos or anything but I'm like I'm pretty sure that's
not how he died.
I was gonna say you telling me that him throwing one of his platinum records through his face
was not realistic to you?
You know I truly mean through his face.
Yeah.
And let's see.
I think personally I'm sitting at like a solid 85 for story.
Dude I was thinking the same so yeah I'll match it there.
Alright moving on over to writing what did you think?
Super super good like holy shit.
Yeah this movie had me laugh my ass off a lot of the time like especially the whole
like pool party scene when he you know finishes like doing the whole oh my god what was his
another one rides the bus that's what his spoof of was right?
I love when John Deacon that's who comes up to him right?
Yep.
When he comes up to him and you know offers him like hey dude you know the next time we
have our concert with Queen we'd be honored if you join us and he like sits there for
a moment and then he's just like fat chance or like some shit like that.
He said hard pass.
That's what it was yeah he's like hard pass that shit was funny.
And then they freaking get the security guy to tase Jack Black's character I'm like damn.
Ah dude that shit is so it was so well done like all of this.
Like the freaking cameos in this are ridiculous dude.
Like first off Weird Al plays a character in this Tony Scottie.
He's like the guy that tells him to like get out there and go on stage like him and his
brother.
Oh that's him?
Yeah that's Weird Al.
Oh shit that's awesome.
So gosh I mean they had a shit ton of joke or like cameos and stuff so I mean so they
had just running down the list of like names that stick out.
Like Weird Al had a role.
Will Forte played the brother Ben Scottie.
Patton Oswalt played a heckler.
Dimitri Martin a comedian played Tiny Tim.
Akiva Schaeffer played Alice Cooper.
Conan O'Brien played Andy Warhol.
That was freaking amazing.
Let's see Quinta Bronson played Oprah Winfrey.
Freaking Josh Groban was in this as a waiter.
Seth Green was a radio DJ.
Let's see any others?
Yeah none other that are like really sticking out.
But I mean they had other people that like maybe like wasn't necessarily the actors that
were playing or that made like amazing cameos.
It was mainly who was being played.
So like we said there was like Pee Wee Herman, John Deacon, Pablo Escobar, Madonna, Diana
Ross, Hulk Hogan.
Apparently Elton John was in this.
Elvira the Mistress of the Dark, David Bowie and Coolio.
They had so many freaking cameos dude.
Which this is gonna be nuts later down the line.
Like this movie is gonna be crazy because it's like these are cameos or like parodies
of people that I would say our generation like barely knows.
Yeah that's true.
And the further down the line this gets and the more like biopics that we get it's just
gonna be of people that we're more and more familiar with.
And our kids are gonna be like who the hell is that?
Like yeah like we're I don't know like we're gonna get like a Taylor Swift biopic someday
down the line and there's gonna be like a Kanye cameo and our kids are gonna be like
who the hell is that?
It's like that's Kanye.
Remember he ran for president in 2016.
Come on.
And he almost won.
He almost won.
Yeah it's like the references on this are gonna are gonna be nuts.
Yeah absolutely.
I mean on this one like I was able to pick up like a good number of freaking of cameos.
Which is just freaking hilarious.
Anyway yeah what did you think?
Where are you sitting with the writing?
Probably higher than the story because yeah the writing was so so freaking good.
Like I said the jokes really hit when they needed to and there there were just some parts
that were just like so out of there the way that they were written.
Like especially the the ending scene of how it's written.
Like you just see Madonna like shedding a tear as she's literally telling her henchmen
to take the shot.
I'm just like what the hell is this?
But I loved it.
So you know what I'm gonna give writing like a 92.
Shit that's exactly where I was too.
Yes.
That usually doesn't happen.
Like no it doesn't.
Like I know that there's been like occasional where we're like okay like talk each other
into like similar score but I had it in my mind like freaking 92.
Yeah I love it.
It was just so it was like really smartly written.
It was.
Like all like most most if not all the jokes freaking landed for me.
Oh Christina said I have to mention this on the podcast.
Remember when towards the ending Al goes back to like reconcile with his parents and you
see that like the moms gained weight.
Yeah.
I don't know if I thought it was pretty funny.
I don't know if you'd find this funny.
First thing that Christina says is it's the human version of Dory.
Yeah from finding Nemo.
I don't know.
I really hope she's not listening to this now because now I'm thinking maybe it wasn't
as funny.
Maybe I was just too tired so I laughed at it.
The human version of Dory.
Yeah.
Christina I really like not listening to this episode.
I hope you are because what you got to explain in to do.
Dory doesn't gain any weight.
I think it's like the fate like the face that it just reminded her of Dory.
I don't know.
I don't know why.
Oh OK.
OK.
Caleb's like OK I guess I can kind of see it.
I'll let it pass since she's your sister.
Yeah.
What are you looking up?
I was looking like I wasn't super familiar with with what song they were trying to like
reference out of him.
OK.
And apparently it's just a song called Fat.
Oh what a great title for a song.
Oh but it's a parody of Bad by Michael Jackson.
OK.
I like it.
Yeah OK.
Gosh I should have listened to like some like a greatest hits thing about Weird Al before
this movie.
Same here.
Because for the longest time it turns out it's not actually by him.
I thought the song Elmo's Got a Gun was actually weird weird weird out.
But it's not unfortunately.
Please tell me you've heard that song.
Yes I've heard that song.
OK.
Yes.
Oh.
But yeah really really well written.
And it's funny because Weird Al and the director are the ones that wrote it.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
So I mean of course it it was awesome.
Yeah.
Jumping on over to acting.
We have Daniel Radcliffe who played Weird Al.
We have Rainn Wilson who played Dr. Demento.
We have Diedrich Bader who voiced a grizzled Weird Al.
They just have him down as grizzled narrator.
I straight up thought that that was Weird Al narrating.
Nope.
Um.
Let's see.
And then we have Madonna.
I don't know why they didn't put this in frickin order.
Then we have Evan Rachel Wood who played Madonna.
Then Toby Huss who played Nick Yankovic.
And then Julianne Nicholson who played Mary Yankovic.
And I think that covers all of the main people.
Okay.
Like I said we had a bunch of like rants.
Like you brought it up earlier.
We had a bunch of cameos and what not.
But they were just really small role.
So this one's kind of hard to do on like top three.
I don't even know if I could do a top three.
I can only do like a top two.
Yeah.
Which I'm assuming number one is Daniel Radcliffe.
Oh absolutely dude.
Guy stole the frickin show.
He rocked this role.
It's just so weird though hearing him talk in American accent still.
It's a little funky and I don't know if he's the best at hiding his accent.
But I feel like he did a very good job in this one.
Yeah I mean there were definitely times where his accent slipped but not very often.
But yeah he...
Excellent excellent excellent work.
Do you know if he did all the singing or was he lip syncing?
No that was all...
No he was lip syncing.
Ah damn it.
Yeah that was all...
Like you could tell like that was straight up Weird Al.
See I don't listen to enough Weird Al to have like known if that was Daniel or actual Weird
Al so alright.
It's no Taron Edgerton situation like with Rocketman.
No not at all.
Like this is just straight up lip syncing.
So like Rami Malek with Bohemian Rhapsody?
Yes well...
What did he lip sync?
Rami Malek did lip sync.
But his was a little different.
So it was kind of like a fusion between Rami Malek and Freddie Mercury's voice.
Oh it was.
Oh that's cool.
So I mean there were some things that they would let slip that were Rami and then there
was a lot that they covered up that was Freddie Mercury but for the most part it was Freddie.
This was just straight up Weird Al.
Like there was no...
There was no Radcliffe wasn't involved at all.
Okay.
Yeah.
Got it.
Darn.
I'll say this though, very impressed that he learned how to play the accordion.
Oh shit so he actually really was playing that?
No.
He was playing it adequately enough that they didn't have to record around it.
I like how I keep giving you these little glimmers of like oh and then oh.
Yeah what the hell man.
Oh man.
So yeah.
So when he got the role of playing Weird Al he took lessons from a friend who knew how
to play the accordion and then once he got on set and was actually starting to work with
everyone he actually got lessons personally from Weird Al.
Oh hell yeah that's awesome.
And then they got to a point where they were like hey you're good enough that we don't
have to pretend like basically like crop you out when we film accordion playing now.
I just love that.
You're good enough that you're gonna make this a lot easier on us so you know what we
appreciate you for being decent at it.
Yeah.
I love that Daniel Radcliffe has been able to just run with the absurd filmography that
he has.
Yeah dude straight up.
He's still freaking raking it in with that Harry Potter money so he's just able to do
whatever the hell he wants without like fear of consequence.
Yeah dude yeah seriously though.
Like he does like a lot of super weird shit but also like a lot of comedy and I think
he like he's an amazing actor.
He is.
It just sucks that he was in that God Awful I never saw it but I heard it was God Awful
Playmobil movie.
As the main character.
Yeah but that's just it.
He can say he's in that no one's gonna know.
Like later down the line like no one's gonna remember oh yeah he was like he voiced in
Playmobil no like their go-to for Daniel Radcliffe will forever and always be Harry
Potter.
Absolutely.
Like anytime someone's just like oh well he sucked in this but he was decent in Harry
Potter that's like his saving grace.
But he's an amazing actor dude.
He really is.
Like I freaking love watching his stuff.
Like I don't know if there's a like a single thing that he's been in that I've disliked.
No I feel the same way.
I still haven't seen Swiss Army man.
That's like one I really want to see.
Neither have I.
I haven't seen that and then what's that one where he has like guns nailed to his hands
like a Kimbo.
Oh I know what you're talking about but yeah I can't remember the name of it.
Yeah so I want to watch both of those.
But yeah Daniel Radcliffe dude just 10 out of 10 with this movie.
Yeah dude incredible performance.
Yeah I think where the movie like kind of falls is maybe with some of the extras.
That's fair.
I mean I don't really know a lot about Madonna so I'm sure that the way that this actress
played her was very over exaggerated.
I have a feeling.
Well yeah they had to play Madonna as a villain.
Yeah so I have I highly doubt that Madonna was this extra.
I mean she might have I don't know.
Okay she very well might have.
Yeah she very well was probably that amount of extra.
Just not to the evil extent.
Yes.
Dude I've kind of pissed off Madonna still hasn't like commented on what she thought
about this movie.
Aw damn it come on Madonna.
Well now that's all I care about.
I need to know.
Dude me too.
I was just like why did she think?
Oh my gosh.
What is the funniest shit ever?
Like I love when actors get referenced and stuff and like comment on that.
Or like I always like want their reaction to it.
Like anytime an actor or actress is referenced in like Family Guy or South Park I'm like
I want to know what that person like thought of that joke.
Yeah or I mean it's even better when they actually like voice the character.
Yeah exactly.
That's exactly what I'm thinking.
Like do you watch Big Mouth on Netflix?
I only ever watched the first season.
I haven't seen the other ones.
So they did like this last season they had Nathan Fillion get body swapped with this
little girl and it was super funny because it's like Nathan Fillion's body, Nathan Fillion's
voice but he's having to like act like a teenage girl.
And it is the funniest shit that he's like saying about himself.
And like he's talking about how perfect his ass is and how amazing of an actor he is.
I'm like dude I want to know like what he thought about doing that stuff.
Yes.
Like that's the kind of reactions that I want to hear about and I never hear that shit talked
about in interviews.
Like very rarely do I ever hear that kind of stuff.
Yeah unfortunately.
Yeah like I think I heard one interview with Daniel Radcliffe where like it kind of got
close to that where someone where Weird Al was talking with Dr. Demento and he's like
oh are you going to be my mentor and he's like no I'm going to be your Dementor.
And he was saying like how awkward he felt with that line because he's just like I know
like that Demento was a real person like all this was real and it was just it was a funny
like pun of a joke but I didn't feel like I could like bring it up because people would
be like shut up like Daniel we know you were in Harry Potter because he's just like is
this like a Dementor joke for me.
Or and so apparently that was not a joke for Daniel like that wasn't a Harry Potter reference
that was a pun.
Okay interesting.
Anyway trying to think of any other like I can't think of like what like what about okay
favorite cameos.
Jack Black definitely was my favorite I freaking loved him he's fantastic but I mean he's fantastic
in anything he does but he was definitely my favorite.
The one that caught me off guard the most though freaking Conan O'Brien is Andy Warhol
that like threw me through a freaking loop of my is that Conan?
Did Christina like pick that out too?
Yeah she did.
We were both like scratching our heads for a minute we're just like wait who the hell
is he's oh Andy Warhol okay.
Dude that was a great cameo.
That was.
What about your other two?
Oh like my other like two top cameos.
Top cameos.
Or no.
Top cameos.
Yeah top cameos because I think acting is kind of it's Daniel Radcliffe.
That's fair.
Okay yeah so number one Jack Black.
Two I'd probably give to the guy that played Pee Wee Herman.
I actually thought he did a very good job.
Dude he did a great job.
Like from the side I actually thought that he was um shit what is the guy's name that
plays Pee Wee Herman?
I don't freaking know.
Anyway I actually thought because the guy actually still looks really good for his age
that did Pee Wee.
So I actually thought it was him from the side view.
I'm like no shit they got him to come back for this that's cool.
I'm like oh no no no that's a completely different actor.
My bad.
And then number three.
Actually um shit what was the queen guy's name?
Oh John Deacon?
Yeah John Deacon.
Because the guy that plays him in this one is the guy that played a I forget his name
but he played Polka Dot Man in the Suicide Squad.
Yeah he was freaking great.
His reaction along with Jack Black's reaction to when Weird Al finishes another one rides
the bus and just them being like that is the greatest thing I've ever heard.
Yeah it was great.
So those would be my three cameos.
Alright I think my number one probably I'll have to agree with you Jack Black.
I love Jack Black.
He's one of those people that just cannot do anything wrong in my eyes.
Same here man.
My number two or so my number one would be Jack or seeing Jack Black in this role.
My number two would be seeing Oprah.
Yes I love it.
Dude she freaking nailed it.
Yeah she was great.
Like she had that like that same Oprah tone and everything.
She did.
Like she freaking destroyed that.
Like freaking loved her.
And that's great.
Yeah and she's actually in so the actress Quinta Brunson let me just double check real
quick.
Okay yeah she is in that show I've been watching Abbott Elementary.
Oh hell yeah nice.
Yeah she so freaking loved her as Oprah.
I thought that was like so good and then my second one would be the Hulk Hogan cameo.
So the guy who played him was James Preston Rogers and he did an amazing Hulk Hogan impression.
Yeah he did absolutely.
So yeah those are my top three.
I love seeing those people.
I love it.
Alright so what would you give the acting score for this?
I don't think I would give it as high as writing but it's definitely higher than story.
See I'm going to go an 88.
That's actually around the range that I was thinking.
By himself I think I'd give Daniel Radcliffe like a 95.
Oh yeah absolutely.
But the extras and everything I'd just be somewhere around like 82, 83 area.
Like they weren't bad they just weren't on the same level.
Yeah exactly.
So I might go maybe a tad lower than you maybe sitting at like yeah no I'll go higher.
I'll go like 89.
Alright next up we got character development which obviously we have to do this on Weird
Al.
But we can't base it off reality.
Yeah can't base it off reality.
But I will say this, this does kind of give us a full circle arc or like a beginning to
end arc.
Like this isn't something where it's like oh like his story continues like no we get
to see as close to the beginning as we can get to the end.
Yeah no no you're absolutely right.
So you got to get props for that.
And honestly I dug the hell out of this arc.
I did too.
I had a fun time.
Yeah I think it started off a bit slow.
Just kind of getting to him like his performances.
I think that kind of took a little bit of like a steady drive like just kind of like
a flat line at the beginning but then it just kind of started once it worked its way up
it started going up.
And then when he took his dive into like the drugs and drinking like that was really well
done because you could see like his whole life was just getting torn apart.
Yeah people he loved was leaving him.
Everything was going down the shithole.
And then has this like weird little instance of betrayal from Madonna when she decided
to take over Pablo Escobar's.
This sounds like a fever dream.
Dude it straight up does.
Anyway.
So yeah like kind of had a weird like a flat line moment where he was where he was in the
jungle of Columbia and assassinated Pablo Escobar but then kind of had some like some
better growth at the end where he like came back into himself and who he has always been
and then like rises to the top with Amish Paradise and then gets assassinated by the
new drug lord Madonna.
That's still so freaking funny.
That was hilarious.
So yeah I think it was a good arc.
It had like a good incline dropped off really solid came back up but just like we said a
little flat line for the jungle and then back up to the top.
Like that was really well done.
Even though it's not real it's a very well told story.
Sorry character development.
Sorry not story.
Yeah dude weird Al is a great storyteller.
He really is like holy shit.
Damn this one's I'd say this one's on the like the above average side as well.
Absolutely.
This one I might give the same as story though.
I'm sitting at like an 85.
You know I'll match you on that.
Alright next up we got effects which for this is more cinematography.
I know that they had one like when he was on that LSD trip.
Yeah which I like that.
Cool yeah it looked really cool like kind of how I would assume an LSD trip to look.
Like just something that's just trippy and totally out there and like did it look great?
Like it probably needed a little bit more like compositing and better lighting but for
an eight million dollar budget.
Not bad.
Yeah.
Then other than that like the only other like effects that I would consider was like the
Pablo Escobar shootout and when he like kills him with the platinum record.
Yeah I still couldn't believe that.
Like holy shit.
That looked great though.
That really did like damn yeah those were some really good prosthetics.
Dude that was so gross.
Like when he goes back for it too.
I know that somehow that made it worse.
Wow that's really in there.
I know dude like the only thing that could have made that worse is if they showed him
like ripping it out.
Oh god dude.
But I feel like it was still like really bad just because you're like hearing all the like
noises and you're just yeah.
Exactly.
Oh but cinematography wise like this was really well shot.
Yeah it was.
Like it just it portrayed the tone that they were going for really well.
So this one's kind of tough for me to not do pretty high as well.
I'm not quite in the 90s though.
I'll say maybe 87.
86.
I'll go 86.
87 felt high.
That's fair.
All right don't kill me but yeah I'm gonna match on this one too.
All right next up we got music.
Are you tempted to give it a 10?
I'm at a 10.
Yeah I did yeah.
I can't even argue.
That's amazing.
I am not the biggest Weird Al fan but it's hard to disagree with how catchy every single
one of his songs are.
Yeah dude straight up.
Like so good.
Like starting off with the My Balona was amazing.
Like was that okay I need to look it up.
Like what was Weird Al's like first actual song?
All right Weird Al Yankovic first recording.
Okay the Weird Al Yankovic album was his debut studio album and it contained Ricky which
is the parody of Mickey.
He had an original song called Got a Boogie.
I Love Rocky Road.
Buckingham Blues.
Happy Birthday.
Stop Dragging My Car Around which is a parody and then on the other side it was My Balona.
The Checks in the Mail which is an original.
Another one Rides the Bus.
Oh my gosh he wrote that with John Deacon.
Oh my god that's amazing.
Wait wait hold on is that true?
Okay I think he just credits them because like there's some where it's like the Stop
Dragging My Heart Around was like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers but he like credits
Tom Petty and Mike Campbell in the writers so I don't know if that like counts.
And then he has three other like originals.
So he freaking includes like all of his songs at the beginning like My Balona, Another One
Rides the Bus, and I Love Rocky Road.
And then the other one that they had was Eat It.
Did they have another song other than that?
There was Amish Paradise.
Oh that's right Amish Paradise 2.
Huh.
Alright.
But yeah like if anyone wants to come on here and try and like debate that these songs aren't
catchy as all hell.
We'd like to see you try.
Yeah like this has everything you need.
It had like good music.
Like I said despite like me not really being a fan of Weird Al like his music is still
good.
Yeah very good.
And it's catchy.
Yeah.
Yeah like holy shit.
Yeah like I've been walking around all day freaking humming My Balona.
Oh shit I love it.
And freaking eat it.
Oh man I love it.
So yeah solid 10s all around.
Alright next up we got Costumes.
And Bro.
I want some of his Hawaiian shirts.
That's all I'm gonna say.
This one I'm having trouble with.
I don't know if I'm at a 9 or a 10.
I'm like really close away.
I'm really close.
Whatever you decide I will match it.
Like first I mean first off we got to start with Daniel Radcliffe.
He embodied Weird Al so freaking well.
Like just had the look.
I know a lot of that was like makeup and costuming but still.
Like just the curly fro the weird like the barely a mustache.
Hawaiian shirts.
But it's not just his costumes too.
It's like all the people that made cameos in this.
Yeah.
Like Madonna.
She looked freaking amazing.
You could pick that outfit out from like a picture of her.
Oh yeah easy.
And then like not even including all the people that you saw at that pool party.
Like freaking Andy Warhol or John Deacon or gosh one second I need to look up their name.
Oh Devo or Devo however you want to pronounce that.
Like you know who I'm talking about the three like the hats.
Weird red hat people.
Like those freaking Elvira like gosh the costumes were like iconic dude.
This is where I'm like freaking this is tough.
This is like a real I'd be like a nine and a half.
But we don't do that.
So I think I'm sitting at a 10.
Not a 19.
All right.
Last up we got personal score.
So what do you got.
So I was not expecting to enjoy this movie as much as I did.
Sometimes music biopics are hit and miss for me.
This one is definitely a hit especially considering that it's all made up.
It's not actually what happened.
I freaking love that though.
Like kudos to Weird Al for doing that.
That's some ballsy shit and I freaking love it.
So that was a great great idea.
Yeah Daniel Radcliffe freaking steals the show as Weird Al.
He's freaking amazing and a lot of the extras really shine in this movie.
So yeah I had a really good time with this one.
So I'm gonna go a solid 90.
I had a really fun time with this movie.
A lot more fun than I thought I was gonna end up having with it.
I figured a Weird Al movie like it'd be interesting and I've always kind of wondered about his
backstory and just the fact that he's still wondering right.
Yeah still absolutely wondering about it but just the fact that he understood that his
life wouldn't make a great documentary or biopic like his real life wouldn't somehow
made what this movie was better.
Yeah I absolutely agree.
Like I know it was just straight out like a blatant lie but it was it was fun.
It was really freaking fun.
Like I had a great time with this movie.
I don't think I'm quite at an 87 or a 90 though.
I'm sitting at an 87.
Okay like it was really fun and like I said just a surprise of a film.
So with that that concludes this week's breakdown.
So the categories are going through the categories.
Story started off at a very solid 85.
Writing jumped up a decent chunk sitting at a 92.
Acting came down a little bit at an 88.5 just because of the absolutely brilliant Daniel
Radcliffe.
Character development sitting at a solid 85.
The effects sitting at a little bit higher at an 86.
Acting sitting at a very solid 10.
Costumes as well sitting at a 10.
And our personal score averaged out to an 88.5.
So with that that brings our All Bros letter grade for Weird the Al Yankovic story to a
B plus.
Okay I like it.
Yeah it's a pretty solid B plus.
So it is sitting.
Let me find it real quick.
Where the hell is it?
Okay there we go.
So it is sitting at a very solid 87.5 which puts it on the exact same level as How to
Train Your Dragon and The Black Phone.
Okay, not bad.
Yeah so both of those movies are sitting at an 87.5 as well.
Moving our way up the list.
It is below Parasite which is at an 87.59.
It is below Raya and the Last Dragon which is at an 87.81.
It's below The Prom which is at an 88.12.
It is below Halloween 2018 which is at an 88.16.
And then finally it is below The Invisible Man which is at an 88.23.
And moving the opposite direction it is above Freaky which is at an 87.37.
It's above Detective Pikachu which is at an 87.31.
Total Recall which is at an 87.28.
It's above The Willoughbys which is at an 87.24.
And then finally it is above Psycho which is at an 87.1.
So very very tight margins here.
I think it has a decent home.
No, I agree.
So anyway.
Anything else to add about this movie?
No, I got nothing.
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Yes.
Do you have your tickets yet?
Oh I'm going tomorrow.
Dude nice.
Hell yeah.
Dude.
Yeah let me know how it is.
Freaking new movies.
Like if you go, like they always have a viewing at three.
I love it.
And it is perfect because no one ever goes to it.
Yeah it's true.
Because yeah I remember like when I bought my tickets for Halloween Ends they had a five
and a seven.
I think there was like maybe like four people that had bought them for that showing the
five of Halloween Ends.
But yet seven there was like a bunch more.
It was kind of funny.
Dude it is pure perfection because like the only people that end up going to the theaters
on a Thursday at three are like diehards that took the day off of work.
That's fair.
But not very many people are there because not like everyone's working.
Yeah.
Like they're still working and it's like like it sucks because once I get out I'm like in
rush hour.
Yeah.
Like in the middle of rush hour but I'll freaking take it over spoilers any day.
That's fair.
No that's absolutely fair.
So I am very excited.
I'm a little bummed out I didn't get to like make or order a Black Panther shirt.
Oh yeah damn.
But yeah so really excited for that.
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You're lame.
Shut up kiss my ass.