![]() In the 1980s, Yankovic became surprisingly famous for his parodies of pop hits, including ‘Eat It’ (a parody of Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’), ‘Another One Rides The Bus’ ( Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust’) and ‘Like a Surgeon’ (‘Like A Virgin’ by Madonna). ![]() Nonsense is ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s stock-in-trade. “It is in fact true that a door-to-door accordion salesman came to our door and that’s why I play the accordion,” says Yankovic. Only one of those things is factual, and it’s not the Madonna bit. This is a film full of lies, in which Daniel Radcliffe, wearing a terrible perm and arguably worse moustache, plays Yankovic, a boy who makes the fateful decision to buy an accordion from a door-to-door salesman, grows up to be the biggest star in the world performing silly parody songs, descends into self-destructive alcoholism and nearly has his life destroyed by a scheming and evil Madonna. That means it doesn’t really matter if you’re a die-hard Yankovic fan or only vaguely aware of him, you’re equally likely to enjoy it. ![]() Because most of the film is not really true. To call Weird: The Al Yankovic Story a biopic is, well, not really true.
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