Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.
Rated 4.3 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
Yes, that's right, I gave the Robbie Williams monkey film 4/5 Right out of the gate let me be clear. I am not a Robbie Williams fan, nor am I a Take That fan. I do not say that with pride or anything, music should be a place for everyone to express themselves. More power to you if you love either of those acts, even if I do wish Gary Barlow would pay his tax. I only wish to highlight my musical taste to convey the effect that Better Man had on me. It should be obvious to you by now that this is a film about Robbie Williams, a biopic to be exact, following him from birth to his show at the Albert Hall. Robbie Williams is played by a computer generated monkey. As biopic you could understandably have the view that this is going to be just a propaganda exercise for its subject matter. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't, but critically this is a film that follows Rocketman more closely in style than Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes, it's designed to sell Robbie Williams, but it does so with some
Lmao it's actually great. A musical biopic, I would probably never actively seek out such a movie, especially for a musician I barely know anything about. The gimmick had me intrigued I gotta say and I think it's brilliant. For those who are unaware - it's a Robbie Williams biopic but instead of being played by a human actor he's played by a digital monkey. Everyone else in the movie perceives him as Robbie Williams but to the audience he's a CG monkey. Allegedly the reason is that that's how Robbie perceives himself, a monkey performing for an audience, but this is never stated in the movie, you can kind of get it if you read between the lines but I think it would go over most of the intended audience's head. The real reason I think is that Robbie didn't want anyone else playing him, and since he probably can't act and the digital de aging would look horrible, they decided to go with a digital monkey. And this decision works incredibly in the movie's favour. I forgot I was watching a monkey within 5 minutes, which is a lot sooner than I would forget I was watching Timothy Chalamet in the Bob Dylan biopic. When I look at that poster I see Timothy Chalamet, when I look at this poster I see Robbie Williams as a monkey, which immersed me more. Does that make sense? I'm not a musical guy so maybe I have no standards but the musical sequences were fantastic, especially Rock DJ and Let Me Entertain You, but in completely different ways. I also really like that he's portrayed as a fame hungry destructive cunt, especially considering he's alive and voices the CG monkey, it felt pretty earnest (not saying it was, I don't know enough about his life but it did FEEL earnest). I did wish that the inevitable redemption arc was a bit more fleshed out though. Overall a great time, should I listen to some of his music?
Blows any of the recent music biopics out of the water. Funny heartbreaking and everything in between,also an amazing technical achievement
I watched Anora today as well, this was the masterpiece among the two. This has no right being this good. What does his wife think about him singing a love song to his ex? Fun, punchy, raw, true, crazy, hard to watch, shitty and fucking amazing all rolled into one. Now I want to know what has been happening since...
