Just watched it. It was fine. A number of pretty funny moments. It's sort of the same joke as another Funny or Die movie, iSteve - a comedy biopic about Steve Jobs. Both also kind of remind me of 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story' in that the main underlying joke is just riffing on biopic cliches.
I'm not trying to make this post a full review or anything, but the cameo by the real Weird Al playing a record exec sort of reminded me of when in 'The People vs Larry Flynt' and the real Larry Flynt played a judge sentencing the movie Larry Flynt. That sort of thing where the real guy plays an adversarial role probably has more or better examples but that's the one that came to mind.
But yeah, there wasn't really any wokeness or anything like that. I'm not even sure I would have thought about it if not for this post. It definitely does not strike me that it is trying to serve any agenda besides its jokey premise. I can't even remember the last time I could say that about a movie.
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