It’s the comedy occasion of the millennium: The first true “Weird Al” Yankovic film in additional than 30 years. It is titled Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and it’s a spoof of musical biopics like Ray or Walk the Line, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the biggest parody music maker in historical past. Al himself co-wrote and co-produced the movie, which is impressed by a Funny or Die sketch from 2010 of the identical title.
While a movement image of this magnitude definitely feels worthy of a theatrical launch, the film just isn’t going to theaters. It’s not going to Netflix or Amazon or HBO both. You can’t purchase it on iTunes. If you’re one in every of the tens of millions upon tens of millions of “Weird Al”-coholics on the market, there’s only one strategy to watch this film: On the Roku Channel, the ad-supported streaming channel accessible on Roku gamers and TVs.
But right here is the excellent news, whereas a Roku participant might be the best place to search out the Roku Channel and Weird, you don’t want a bodily Roku to observe the channel. A press launch for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story notes that you will discover the Roku Channel “for FREE on Roku devices, the Web, iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire TV and select Samsung TVs. No subscription required.”
What you will want is a Roku account, which you may get (without cost) by signing up at the Roku Channel’s web site. Alternately, you’ll be able to obtain the Roku Channel app for an Android or iOS gadget, or add it to your Amazon Fire TV or a Samsung TV and create a Roku Channel subscription there. They don’t ask you to show you personal a Roku, or to offer your bank card info.
Once you create an account, you’ll be capable of watch any of the channel’s choices in your net browser or gadget — together with, by the manner, the short-lived The Weird Al Show from 1997. And beginning this Friday, you’ll additionally be capable of watch Weird: The Al Yankovich Story that manner as nicely. It’s actually so simple as that.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a winking mockery of the stale biopic formulation, and options an especially inaccurate retelling the life story of Weird Al. How did he uncover the accordion? Why did he grow to be a music parodist? What did real-world musicians consider his spoofs? You gained’t be taught any of that in the film, as a result of is a closely fictionalized (and really foolish) model of Yankovic’s journey. Here’s the trailer for the movie, which was directed and co-written by Eric Appel, who additionally directed the unique Funny or Die quick.
The movie contains a ton of stars, together with Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna and Rainn Wilson as Dr. Demento, plus a slew of shock comic cameos (usually enjoying different comedians and celebrities from the Nineteen Eighties, when Al’s profession first began taking off).
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will premiere on the Roku Channel this Friday, November 4.
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