Saw Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a parody bio-pic about the rise of Weird Al, from his humble youth growing up in a factory town, to high-school where he begins to sneak out to wild polka parties and has a fateful run-in with a slick accordion salesman. Once his talent is recognized in a dive bar frequented by Dr Demento, he's catapulted to fame and glory, ultimately winning the prestigious Perhaps Not Technically The Best, But Arguably The Most Famous Accordion Player In An Extremely Specific Genre Of Music Award. Truly, an inspiring film.
The film contains many parodies of the musical bio-pic genre, spoofing Boogie Nights and The Doors' LSD-fueled tours (and wow, Daniel Radcliff (who plays Weird Al) is jacked!) As you might be able to gather from the above, it is not exactly faithful to the truth, but it is entertainingly nutty and funny in a wholesome sort of way. There's a lot of great comedy mined from the film being unreliable in its narration. Also, we get great scenes of Al "discovering" parody concepts for various songs.
Being a comedy, the film is somewhat slight. We don't plumb the depths of the human condition and we don't grapple with man's inhumanity with man, but we get some silly hijinks and some laughs at the hubris of a man taking liberties with his own story, and that's pretty good. No regrets. Pretty fun!
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