A Smart Mocumentary.

Rating: 8/10 (4 September 2019)

Review:
'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping' is an American mockumentary-comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. I can't even count how many times I have watched this movie and it never gets old. I watch it for reasons any normal person would watch a movie, entertainment alone. However, I watched it more closely this time around because I wanted to give an impartial review, based on the movie's criteria and not what my own personal sense of humor is.
The film follows a solo music artist by the name of Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) as he falls from fame and reconnects with his childhood friends.
This movie was so smart taking the documentary route, because the three guys from "The Lonely Island" are not the best actors in the world. Taking this approach, they didn't need to be - it felt like a crew was just following these people around and weird shit was happening. They have so many cameos in this movie too. I'm not going to say who because some of the people they got is so surprising, again almost all the cameos are playing themselves and can't really act, so this format works on all aspects.
Everything in this movie is to the moon and it's fantastic. The soundtrack is incredible and funny. They got so many guest artists to feature in this soundtrack, such as Akon, P!nk, Emma Stone and Linkin' Park to name a few! It's something that is going to be offensive to some, if you take it the wrong way. You really need to go into this knowing who "The Lonely Island" are and what type of comedy they possess versus what their views are in real life. They look at comedy as making fun of political views, so when we watch the music video for "Equal Rights" and Conner is being very offensive in the video starting throughout that he is "not gay", it's Andy Samberg making fun of 'Toxic Masculinity'.
Overall, if you're a fan of "The Lonely Island" you should check this one out, because they all wear their hearts on their sleeves in this movie and you can tell they cared about that outcome. You might not be able to see where I am coming from because this is such a raunchy and eccentric film. That just means you don't know Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer's comedy and might just want to stay away from one.
4/5