Fun but dragged on and on

Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2020)

Will Ferrell plays the normal middle aged, misfit, underachiever he plays in most films.
Here he is determined to represent Iceland in the Euro-vision Song Contest.
Will Ferrell is less Will Ferrell than he normally is and shares the spotlight with Rachel McAdams who is very good.
The characters are entertaining enough and they make a cute ugly-couple.
The comedy is a warm and fuzzy pastiche of the contest in the whole and pokes around at some national stereotypes - all in good humour.
Most is spot on: half the fun of watching Euro-vision as a Brit is to see the U.K flop and then spend the next day moaning about it.
At one point it felt like the film was coming to a head so I paused to grab a cup of tea and was alarmed to see there was over an hour left.
I was barely half way through!
This is my gripe with this film.
It is much too long.
There are only so many ways you can depict Scandinavians as reserved, polite and naive before it gets boring.
This film should have got in and out before you could think too hard about it but it massively over stays its welcome.
Seriously, by the time this film ended I had cleared it a shelf in the fridge.
There are some fun cameos from actual Euro-vision "stars"
Good light hearted fun in a bleak time but didn't know when to quit.