A movie that sucks...and mostly works

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2019)

This film is basically a Queen medley with occasional scenes, but a fake set of teeth and an amazing catalog of songs is apparently enough to make a fairly watchable movie, as silly as that seems. Stephen Hyden of Grantland/Ringer fame captured it well: "Bohemian Rhapsody has been likened to a 'glorified Wikipedia entry,' but that's actually a disservice to Wikipedia....still, if you regard Bohemian Rhapsody as an excuse to sit in the dark and listen to Queen songs, well, there are far less entertaining ways to spend two hours." I mean, this movie was cartoonish and inaccurate and not especially good. But I could not take my eyes away from it. It never should have garnered awards nominations, but it I can still see why everyone flocked to theaters for it. When I think of 2018 musicals, I will think of "A Star Is Born." But that movie did not have a soundtrack by Queen.