Should be sent to a lonely island and bombed

Rating: 2/10 (18 June 2019)

I had frankly high expectations when going in to this, all of which were brutally shattered by 30 minutes as I suddenly realised its everything I hate about film. I generally speaking don't mesh well with American Comedy avoiding most films and finding the likes of 'Friends' barely tolerable there's been some sort of appeal to Samberg as both character and actor for a while from me and his work on a Brooklyn Nine-Nine is impressive but here his form was all off. I've got a good knowledge of the lonely island and find their work fun but something does not hit well at all here. Connor the lead of the 'documentary' is intolerable and for as much as this was intended tonal there's genuinely no charm in the character whatsoever. The others have roles that weren't worth naming and frankly are interchanged as the plot decides. The form aspect is poor, a 'mockumentary' there's so much potential when approaching such a type of film see the lines of 'What we Do in the Shadows' with the genre classic being 'Spinal Tap' there's evidence of what can be achieved in this world but all is missed here. In the case of 'Popstar' which it'll be called for convenience sake there's more focus on just celebrity cameos opposed to substance with all the Talking Heads being a who's who? Of modern fame featuring but not limited too: A$AP Rocky, Usher, Akon and later stock footage of the likes of Rita Ora and one more major appearance from Snoop Dogg. This absolute scatter of fame is presumably there for drinking game purposes and serves no real weight to the characters at all with only Justin Timberlake and Usher actually appearing outside of the Talking Heads segments. The 'Style Boyz' funnily enough appear to have no chemistry what so ever and such the payoff of the grand return misses the mark completely and the music is enough to make ears bleed, which sure is again intentional but even so just stop and also in hindsight how they got away with certain songs is amazing as they certainly didn't sit well with me personally. The splitting of the characters was contrived and the return was also plus the 'comedy' in between was worthless and had zero laughs from me. In what seems to be just a million cameos and various cultural references (Such as Kanye West attacking a videoing journalist) it's more of a 'look it's Celebrity X' and 'oh I remember that' opposed to anything that has real substance as a film and such is just a waste of time that passed by so painfully slow, if you can avoid it.