| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Like all knowing-satire, this is more knowing than satirical: A parody not of real life but of its Hollywood representations.
The parody of American musical biopics is wafer-thin and lacks crucial insights into human relationships. Instead, the humour relies not on our experience of life but of Hollywood movies – and comedy about nothing but itself can never really be all that funny.
The repetitive and explicitly-orificial nature of the humour – with its single entendres – soon palls because (like promiscuous sex) it does not compensate for the real thing.
Themes, plotting, characterisation and style are all relentlessly bland as if this was suggestive of the still waters running deep that it is not.
Having said all that, much of this is pretty funny so long as you do not wish to be challenged or shocked.
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