Exploring every facet of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’ and ‘Like a Surgeon’ to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle, this biopic takes audiences on a truly unbelievable journey through Yankovic’s life and career, from gifted child prodigy to the greatest musical legend of all time.
Acting
Radcliffe commits harder to this than Harry Potter, and that's saying something.
Direction
Appel's fake-serious tone walks the tightrope of stupid-brilliant.
Writing
The Madonna romance arc belongs in the Smithsonian of unhinged choices.
Director
Eric Appel
Daniel Radcliffe
'Weird Al' Yankovic
Evan Rachel Wood
Madonna
Rainn Wilson
Dr. Demento
Toby Huss
Nick Yankovic
Jack Lancaster
Jim
Spencer Treat Clark
Steve
Tommy O'Brien
Bermuda
Arturo Castro
Pablo Escobar
Julianne Nicholson
Mary Yankovic
Diedrich Bader
Grizzled Narrator (voice)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Doctor
Richard Aaron Anderson
Young Al
Thomas Lennon
Salesman
David Bloom
Teenage Al
Keanush Tafreshi
Kip
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The fake Funny or Die trailer with Aaron Paul from 2010 directly spawned this feature; Al and Appel spent over a decade trying to get it made.
This basically killed the musical biopic genre just as it was peaking—released the same year as Elvis and Weird simultaneously parodied and out-weirded the entire Oscar-bait trend.
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