Exactly what you imagined when you picture a feature-length SNL Digital Short

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2017)

I love "The Lonely Island". I am a huge fan of their music and I think they brought something fresh and original to the stale format of SNL. I highly enjoy the antics of Andy Samberg no matter in what format, and I think that a lot of the time their humor is intelligent, satirical and highly tongue-in-cheek.
But, as in the case of some of their shorts, songs and highly reminiscent of a Seth Macfarlane sketch, whenever there is spare time in the script they overuse their jokes and run them way too long.
Now imagine a Digital Short at feature-length. For every genius moment that was thoroughly enjoyable (the amazing last number ft. Bolton and Usher and the singing fish, the Mona Lisa and Ben-Ladin songs, the wedding scene...so much when you break it down) there were another two that were all fizzle.
I wish there was a minimalist editor's cut of this film where an outside editor would be able to trim all the fat and leave us with the good solid meaty substance that is definitely present... But seeing as there is no such thing, I cannot help but render Pop-Star a one-time watch with re-watches of clips on Youtube. Sad.