Eurovision being cancelled is not the worst thing, but this is

Rating: 2/10 (28 June 2020)

Ive been a fan of the ESC since 2008 and I have a good understanding of what Eurovision is. Once I heard this movie was coming out I got very excited, until I found out will Ferrell was appearing in it, and as the main character... I was expecting a big amount of screaming nonsense by Ferrell for most movie and boy, was I right... Pretty much he is in all of the scenes, hoarding the screen time with dull conversations that don't go anywhere. I felt really cringey the whole movie.. But that's not the worst,
there is more.. I believe the way xenophobia is exploited in this movie is quite big, the main Icelandic character screams (no shocking there) at Americans and telling them to go back to their country.. Now, I dont know anyone from Iceland but I'm guessing they are not particularly filled with hate towatds tourists.. I'm giving a 2 out of 10, only for 2 particular reasons: the sing along from former contestants was actually fun and enjoyable, (I wish they would have made thus a musical type of movie instead) and the 2nd reason : the songs and performance from a few countries were really cool to hear, specially the swedish one.. kudos to them... Now, going back to the main actors of this movie: I wish anybody else would have taken the Male role, Ferrell didn't convince me not even one in any of his multiples repetitive scenes that he was Icelandic or an Eurovision performer.. and Rachel, I wish they could have use her in a way to address the impossible love story between the Russian performer and Kevin Swain, now, that story caught my eye right away, but we didn't hear most of it.. overall a great idea and mediocre results..