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The Rock DJ sequence alone is an easy five stars and the action sequence near the end where he performs at a festival I refuse to Google but have decided through their accents is called Net Worth, bumps it up to a 7 out of 5. Watched this completely alone in an AMC in Pittsburgh and it upsets me that Americans won’t get to see it in a packed theater simply because no one “knows who Robbie Williams is.” Okay? I don’t know who the fuck Mia and Sebastian are but I was still in the La La Land trenches. And I would’ve been in there twice as much if Ryan Gosling was replaced by a British monkey.

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Review by Karsten ★★★★ Liked

goes unnecessarily hard. looks AMAZING, songs slap. whole thing is buzzing with energy. the monkey stuff, i could go an hour on that. please don’t make me watch the greatest showman (i will)

Review by Chris Feil ★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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It's me, The Guy Who Does Not Like Music Biopics here to report that this contains every music biopic cliche I hate and yet somehow it works. I will be yelling about this movie to anyone within earshot for the next year but the most important things about it to me personally

1. Liam and Noel Gallagher are characters in the movie
2. Robbie Williams with his skin ripped off from the Rock DJ video appears but in monkey form and then takes part in a massive violent battle scene at Knebworth with thousands of monkey Robbies
3. it actually has some of the most transcendent musical sequences I've seen in years (turns out Michael Gracey does indeed have the juice)

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Should not work but is batshit and honest enough to avoid the sickening pastiness of dull biopics like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. Long in the tooth and overstimulating but entertaining all the way through. Would be curious what non-brits take from it…

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we actually got a planet of the apes musical before gta 6

13

made me cry over a cgi monkey (twice)

Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★

A little too standard music biopic-y once you look past the pretty creative monkey business, but the saving grace is how it locks the fuck in during the musical sequences. Let Michael Gracey direct a film adaptation of Pippin or something god damn

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rock dj scene altered my brain chemistry

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if you told me when I was 11 and listening to Life Thru a Lens on a loop that 27 years later, there'd be a Robbie Williams movie where he's a monkey and it's really good...I would have believed you

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as a monkey movie enjoyer i am severely disappointed in myself for not seeing this in theaters

had way more sauce than i expected

35

No… no, it’s fine… it’s just I didn’t think it’d be British