POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING
Directed by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone
Screenplay: Andy Samdberg; Akiva Schaffer; and Jorma Taccone
Starring: Andy Samberg; Akiva Schaffer; and Jorma Taccone
A mockumentary about the life of a popstar Connor4real. The camera follows him from his time as being a fixture in a boy band to being a solo popstar.
What is odd is when I saw the trailer I had no interest in seeing this film, then I go see the film and it is so much better than the trailer.
It is the modern day Spinal Tap. However it also touches on issues that Spinal Tap could not touch because Spinal Tap did not have social media to poke fun at.
I am not a huge fan of Samberg, I always find him not as funny as what he thinks he is. Here, he brings back together the team that brought us the underrated Hot Rod, and it worked.
This film pokes fun at:
Social Media
Unintelligent popstars who think they are intelligent
TMZ
Live music that is really just prerecorded music on an IPOD
The followers, entourages, and groupies of Popstars
The screenplay by Samberg and his best buddies Schaffer and Taccone is hilarious and sometime cringe worthy ("You mean 30 seconds to Mars does not mean it takes 30 seconds to get to Mars").
So this 90 minute film is rolling along like as a smart and funny classic and then at the 60 minute mark it hit a wall. Not only hit a wall, the film was torn apart by the wall. It went from possibly being a comedy classic to a pool of mush (No Spoilers here). Picture Spinal Tap with a mushy huggie ending, it would have not been the classic that it is. Spinal Tap stayed brilliantly funny to the end.
A bad decision by the three writers.
Quick note: This film has many wonderful funny small little roles by many a star but none better, and or funnier, than Justin Timberlake. Every time I saw him as a chef I laughed.
3 1/2 stars out of 5 for Popstar: which sadly stopped being funny after 60 minutes in.
From the shadows as always thanks for your time.
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