The life story of Weird Al Yankovic, the artist who became famous for his parodies of well-known songs. We see his early life and how his father tried to stifle his creativity, his slow to success and the trappings of fame. Some parts of the film may be fictional. Well, it is a parody.
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- CookiesForDevoJanuary 23, 2025Everything in this movie is 100% factually true. No fluff, no exaggerations, no dramatic license. Just pure legendary history.
- Rick TracewellSeptember 25, 2026Just as it is seeing Weird Al live (saw him again two weeks ago with my son), this movie is not for everyone. For sure. You have to have the ability to divert the critical thinking part of your brain. Rather than use that part to actually be critical of what you see and hear, you must watch and listen for the absurd genius of the entire movie. Ask yourself why actors and comedians the caliber of Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Jack Black, Conan O'Brien, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and so many more would go anywhere near this ridiculous concept of a movie. It's because they get it. They've grown up with Al's brilliant style of humor—and not just from his music!—and probably said yes to being in this film before they read their script. It wouldn't surprise me if there were even heated arguments with agents ending with at least one of them being fired over it. If you've made it this far, then you probably "get it" as well. In my opinion, you're a much better person for it, honestly. In fact, I think that dating apps should have a "Weird Al: Get it? or Don't get it?" question right next to "Do you smoke?" It's that divisive and would save people like us a lot of time and money weeding out the ones that don't have the ability to enjoy real humor. Oh, I am very thankful that my son and I learned something truly valuable at this recent Weird Al concert (Sept. 2026). He and his wonderful band played the song that is played during the credits of this movie. It is classic Al. Go back and watch the credits again (or for the first time) and crank the volume. Trust me, it's like experiencing Al's brain up close…and it’s as glorious as you’d expect.
- MarshSeptember 15, 2026Classic comedy well worth it
- Xian61August 15, 2026Finally a complete and accurate bio pic on Wierd Al! Incredible!
- Ryan PageMarch 19, 2026Bit weird
- nullset2February 19, 2026it ruled...
- marshalseaNovember 28, 2025The best biopic ever. All true facts about the living legend that is Weird Al. Played by the other national treasure Daniel Radcliffe. You can tell this is one of the shoots where it was just a blast. Rachel Evan Woods get to throw her range around for once and the bit at the end when she perfect hams it up - chefs kiss. Go on, do it... Watch this film and have your soul improved that good people exist.
- Buddy FazzioNovember 24, 2025Simply the best movie biography ever made in an extremely narrow niche. Everyone shoild see this totally accurate movie about the life of the greatest popstar in the history of the world.
- NotoriousEdgeOctober 19, 2025The perfect biopic for Weird Al
- jackmeatOctober 9, 2025My quick rating - 8.1/10. I am such a huge fan that it didn't really matter who was in it; I was massively looking forward to it. The fact that Daniel Radcliffe decided to take on the role of "Weird" Al was the icing on the cake due to his recent turns in film choices. So far, I have no idea if this is historically accurate at all or not (I have to play along with a parody of his own history), but I honestly don't care. Playing along with that will be difficult to do for the whole review, sorry. The way he made up nearly every bit of what his life was like is brilliant. Radcliffe plays the part of Yankovic to perfection, making his torrid love affair with Madonna that much more real. I was surprised they were able to even go into the fact that Michael Jackson wrote his own parody song called "Beat It" to ride the fame of "Eat It" which clearly was an original "Weird" Al creation. I also thought the mission to Colombia was classified, so they must've changed some of the story to allow it to be shown. Part of that secret is out now. It must've taken a lot of guts to finally come out and tell the truth about his life, such as this. Come Oscar time, I COMPLETELY expect the entire cast to be nominated in one way or another. Now back to our regularly scheduled review. The movie starts out with an accident and "Weird" Al giving his voiceover, asking us to enjoy his autobiography. This settles the audience into a journey like many music biopics. The sheer genius of how it slowly unravels, though, is Yankovic taunting the viewers into playing a game of how much of this will you accept as truth before you realize this is just a brilliant parody. Everything is subtle at first, and even after it gets leveled into absolutely absurd, the cast continues to play it completely straight as fact. Evan Rachel Wood does a spectacular job as Madonna, while I could pretty much single out each one throughout, but there are so many spots in this one with people that you know are there to celebrate Yankovic just as much as being in the movie. Check the cast list and you'll see all kinds of familiar names. Throughout the flick, you are constantly challenged with the jokes fired at you while juggling whether anything being portrayed is even factual. It makes it more fun watching the whole thing unfold like this. I still am chuckling, thinking of the scenes, and it has been a couple of days removed. Suffice it to say, I have always been a fan, but I still can recommend this one to anyone with a sense of humor. But if you happen to be at the age of knowing his cult stardom and the era of the 80s-90s, then even more of this will be hilarious. I know growing up, I was always looking forward to the next parody song to be released. I also never went disappointed when they hit. I am sure a bit of my warped sense of humor was shaped a bit by this man. Blame "Weird" Al and Steve Martin for sure. "Live the life you wanna live. You know, be as weird as you wanna be. Believe me, you will never find true happiness."
- Kevin WardJuly 6, 2025Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, though perhaps not technically the best and arguably not the most famous movie in an extremely specific genre of films, it’s an exceptionally fun watch, incredibly clever, and well worth checking out. The humor is self referential, simultaneously self reverential and self deprecating, and managed to subvert my expectations at every turn. Throw everything you thought you knew about the late, great, devil’s squeeze box player and enjoy this ridiculous ride.
- SolarfinderJune 29, 2025just like weird Al yankovic, the story is both unbelievable and funny at the same time. there were aspects of the story that were true, yet the extraordinary effort they yankovic took to hide and mass the true emotions and feeling during the whole story was quite impressive
- GrimeFiVideoMay 27, 2025The truest of all true stories.
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was released on November 4, 2022.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was directed by Eric Appel.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has a runtime of 1h 48m.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was produced by Joe Farrell, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Whitney Hodack, Tim Headington, Mike Farah, Max Silva, Lia Buman, Eric Appel.
The life story of Weird Al Yankovic, the artist who became famous for his parodies of well-known songs. We see his early life and how his father tried to stifle his creativity, his slow to success and the trappings of fame. Some parts of the film may be fictional. Well, it is a parody.
The key characters in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story are 'Weird Al' Yankovic (Daniel Radcliffe), Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood), Dr. Demento (Rainn Wilson).
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is rated PG-13.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a Comedy, Musical, Biography film.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has an audience rating of 7.8 out of 10.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story had a budget of $12M.