This flick is a fairy tale about a guy joining a dental shop quartet . . .

Rating: 9/10 (6 November 2018)

. . . called "Why Smile?" or something, whose name starts with the letter "F." (He keeps changing it during this fantasy; let's just call him "Freddy.") The first thing that Freddy does in Rock Band Land is to declare himself Queen of the foursome, and rename the whole shebang after himself. Freddy is much more of a Red Queen than a White Monarch (though he takes after that social butterfly Alice in that he plunges down every rabbit hole he runs across). Eventually Freddy tries to race Across the Universe in true Mercury fashion, belting out six minutes of a BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY. But then he catches AIDS from some farmers, and decides to rest on his laurels by declaring himself to be "Champion of the World." Since this never ending story clocks in at well over two hours, there's plenty of time to cram in the thousands of little snits and petty quarrels among Freddy's many families: The Zoroastrians, the former dental hygienists, the leather shop crowd, the breeders, and the gold record farmers (who perhaps should be designated as "miners"). At any rate, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is the kind of fairy tale that includes kisses for everyone (even the frogs).