Is this what all of the spoof movies are like: jokes beat into the ground, ridiculous situations, randomly inserted bits of genitalia? Wow. Am I ever glad I never bothered to see any of the other films that pass for comedy in our benighted age.
On the other hand, the flick had its moments – mostly involving the Beatles – but a few spoofing on incidents from the lives being lampooned hit the mark. I guess, if you want to get philosophical, this film tried to show that all the things we pity in the originally biography’d celebrities (Johnny Cash, Ray Charles) aren’t any worse than the stuff any one of us goes through on a normal day and that overcoming drug addiction, or standing by your family are not things to be celebrated – they’re the bare-minimum expected of a human being.
And the songs were pretty funny too.