Review by soundoflight

This film starts off quite fantastic. Seeing the young "Weird Al" was interesting and funny. The film makes you want to see how this quirky kid becomes a star... but that's not the film we get. At some point rather early on, the film essentially "jumps the shark" and launches into this bizarre alternative fantasy-reality that just gets more and more "weird" as the film progresses. By the end, it had totally lost me. It felt like an inside joke that everyone gets but you.

In Weird Al's cult classic film "UHF" (which I love), there was tons of over the top fantasy stuff, but the key difference is that those sequences were not the core of the movie - the core of the movie was firmly based in some semblance of reality. With this film, all pretense of reality is dropped in favor of what seems to be something incredibly self-indulgent. The sad thing is that I think if they had just 'played it straight' and perhaps included a few daydream fantasy vignettes like in "UHF," it could very well have been another smash hit.