For Eurovision fans I guess?

Rating: 4/10 (1 July 2020)

After seeing the reasonably high rating on IMDB for this film, I figured I was in for a Will Ferrell comedy up there with Anchorman (which really grew on me quite a while after first seeing it), with a lot of laugh-out-loud moments. After watching it though, I feel that the high reviews must have been due to a Eurovision fan thing. I'm not really a fan of Eurovision at all so I watched this without any real investment in that aspect of the story. There were a few moments that were amusing but I felt that there was a long patch in the middle of this film that felt really un-funny and awkward to me. I was contemplating turning this off halfway though as I was embarrassed for having chosen to watch this with my family and everyone was starting to look at me and question my choice. This was sitting on a 2/10 for me but then thankfully
the film picked up with some comedy highlights and better pacing toward the end. I think if this film had been trimmed to a 90 minute run time, tightening up the story, it would have been substantially better. If you were a Eurovision fan, you may have appreciated the finer details more than I did.