The same way Weird Al takes the familiar framework and composition of a song but replaces its meaning with something purposefully silly and outlandish, Weird does the exact same thing to the typical biopic formula.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 2, 2024

Half the fun of Weird is enjoying the way Yankovic and director Steve Appel skewer the traditional musical bio-pic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2024

The film's honesty is inspiring, touching on such easily verifiable occurrences as his love affair with Madonna, his gun battle with drug lord Pablo Escobar, and the fact that “Eat It” was an original composition which Al wrote before MJ penned “Beat It.”

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 26, 2023

... "Weird" is a celebration of Yankovic by playing loose with the truth and essentially functioning as a parody of every biography released in cinema history and any that may come next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

It’s campy and overtly silly. It is precisely what one would expect from Yankovic.

| Oct 26, 2023

Radcliffe’s not the first name that comes to mind when casting a comic role but his embracing of the absurdity makes it all so funny.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 9, 2023

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is amazingly unhinged with its slew of charming performances, and it boasts an ending that will be hard for future musical biopics to beat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2023

One of the biggest surprises when it comes to a comedy. A straight parody on biopics/music industry that incredibly turns everything upside down like Weird Al did for the music genre. IT’S BRILLIANT… Daniel Radcliffe is GREAT

| Jul 25, 2023

Weird has plenty to offer longtime acolytes of Yankovic’s music but it’s far from a collection of in-jokes, references and fan service.

| Jun 30, 2023

Walk Hard got to a lot of this stuff 15 years ago, and with much more precision.

| May 2, 2023

Whether you’re a fan of the lyric-changing, polka-loving musical artist or not, it is hard not to enjoy this truly anarchic comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2023

When it works, it is because it finds just the right balance between the legitimate form it is parodying and the ridiculousness of the content stuffed into it. In other words, it is like a feature-length “Weird Al” music video.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2023

There are genuine moments of genius, but I wish it had been as jam-packed with jokes (considering the too-long running time) as a typical Weird Al tune (or even The Vidiot from UHF).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2023

It’s a collection of sketches where the whole is less than the pieces.

| Mar 2, 2023

The dude just makes parody songs, and is pretty chill. What kind of movie are you going to make out of that? A pretty dang entertaining one as it turns out.

| Feb 13, 2023

…(Weird: The Al Yankovic Story) is non-stop, jam-packed, all killa, no filla comedy gold from all concerned, and I’d cheerfully give this six stars if I could…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2023

The screenplay is inventive and fresh, spoofing the bio-pic genre, taking a page from Weird Al himself, in ways that are not only clever and unpredictable, but side-splittingly hilarious and, yes, really really weird.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 12, 2023

An outburst of genius from a showman who cements his musical art on humor and with his being vindicates what's weird and strange. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 27, 2022

This was a very entertaining film. It's so meta and give so many amazing memorable historic moments from the legendary Weird Al Yankovic. Daniel Radcliffe plays this almost to perfection and his surround cast complement this film even more as a comedy!

| Original Score: B | Dec 26, 2022

Between Swiss Army Man and Miracle Workers (and even The Lost City and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) Daniel Radcliffe proves one again that he is one of the most willing actors of his generation. His Al is eager, arrogant, assured, and coy all at once.

| Dec 26, 2022