Shallow, unfunny, yet oddly touching.

Rating: 5/10 (3 July 2020)

Father Ted did it better.
For a comedy, I laughed very little. But overall, it's a surprisingly endearing story.
Lots of unpleasant or cheap jokes that get quite tiring. Nowhere near enough of the genuine, unfiltered lunacy of real-life Eurovision. (Where are my baking grannies, singing horses and other nutty acts???)
I have questions about the fairies, but I'm just gonna accept what I saw...
However, all that aside, the film tackles the themes of blind determination and admitting being wrong, THEN DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT - which aren't things that come up too often in this kind of film.
If Will Ferrel didn't join in the final performance song, I would have given a 6 or 7, because I really felt like that stomped all over the meaningfulness of the previous half hour of an already over-long film.