It's official, Will Ferrell ain't funny any more

Rating: 1/10 (28 June 2020)

This movie is a spoof about a band from Iceland trying to win the Eurovision Song Contest. It's a kitschy and camp annual event that is roundly ridiculed by just about everyone in Europe and is never even heard of by the great unwashed in America
It's such a fine line between a funny movie and a dud. "Blades of Glory" had me rolling in the aisles but this one had me hitting the fast forward button every couple of minutes , trying in vain to get a chuckle. None!
Almost as bad as "The House" but really nothing could get as bad as that one, and the problem lands squarely in the lap of Ferrell.
He co-wrote the script (with another ex SNL alumni) and it's heavily borrowed from The House.
A very similar plot to "Blades of Glory" but it missed the mark by a wide margin.
Ferrell's penchant for showing us severed limbs and hacked up faces just doesn't come across as funny any more and he seems to want to use these tricks when the plot dips into a deep valley.
It's a pretty good premise to spoof the Eurovision Song contest but you've got to have some good satire and parody to pull it off and this just don't cut the mustard. The scriptwriters just ain't talented enough to draw the humour out.
I've said it before about other movies and I'll say it again about this one.
It's like watching a horse plowing a potato field, you know there's something happening but you're not interested enough to see what's going on.
Some of the scenes are so embarrassingly "unfunny" that they must have given the colorists extra pay to take out the red faces... just cringingly bad.
Netflix never listens to me ( or at least they haven't so far) but let me give the executive some advice.
Have someone check on the project during the process, someone to look at the rushes .. because it's obvious that nobody did .
If they had a quality control system then the plug would have been pulled on this bathtub of cold water, or somebody, somewhere would have said "hit the reset button"
I know comedy films are very very hard to get right , it involves a lot of luck , a funny cast and a spoofable subject. This one only has one out of the three and you can guess which one it is.
Dan Stevens is pretty good , showing that he can shuffle off the typecasting from Downton Abbey, Rachel Mcadams is sometimes very difficult to look at.
As for Will Ferrell, well his SNL type humour is a thing of the past.
This movie comes across as one of those lame sketches on SNL , sketches that have you wondering how they made it on the screen.(and there's lots of 'em)
I just can't watch that show any more and I wouldn't be the first in line to re-watch this movie, that's for sure.