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Jun 3, 2016 · Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. For its first thirty minutes or so, “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” feels like the great comedy you did not know you needed in your life. That is to say, it feels like the “ This is Spinal Tap ” for the Justin Bieber generation.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping updates the rock mockumentary for the 21st century mainstream -- and hits many of its low-hanging targets with side-splitting impact. Read Critics...
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By Josh Lasser
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 7:09 pm
Posted: Jun 1, 2016 1:00 pm
In order for a mockumentary to be great, there is a fine line it needs to walk – it has to be both believable and utterly outrageous. Lean too far towards one side or the other and the entire thing comes crashing down. The Lonely Island's big screen music mockumentary effort, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, straddles that line perfectly. Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer have constructed an utterly hysterical and relatively believable movie. Kudos must go to all three with the trio having written the movie together, Samberg playing the lead, and Taccone and Schaffer co-directing.
Popstar is the story of singer Conner4Real (Samberg), and it unfolds as Conner is launching his second solo effort, Connquest. At one point, Conner was a member of a trio, the Style Boyz, which, kind of like the Lonely Island, featured three friends who grew up together. Beyond Conner, the Boyz included Owen (Taccone) and Lawrence (Schaffer), but as Conner's star rose the band broke up. When the movie opens, Owen is Conner's DJ (but only gets to press play on an iPod) while Lawrence is off farming in Colorado. For his part, Owen would love to see the Boyz reform while Lawrence is angry at Conner for reasons that become clear later in the film.
The genius of Popstar lies not within the broader story as, let's face it, the tale of a band breaking up and the artists pursuing other efforts isn't terribly novel, but rather in the specifics. Conner has become an incredibly insulated celebrity, surrounded by yes men and completely unaware of how ridiculous he sounds singing a song about how he's a massive star, great at everything, a generally fantastic guy, and yet "so humble."
For all its brilliance, one can't help walking out of Popstar feeling just a little sad. This less because the basic outline is exactly what one might expect from a behind-the-scenes documentary about a band and more due to the fact that the movie ends at all. We are all now in the terrible position of having to wait to see what Samberg, Taccone, a...
Jun 1, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’. Andy Samberg plays a white-boy rap star in a mockumentary that might have been funnier as an SNL Digital Short. By Owen Gleiberman. Courtesy of...
Jun 1, 2016 · ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’: Film Review Andy Samberg plays a singer/rapper whose burgeoning solo career gets derailed in this mockumentary written and directed by the members...
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a genius satire as the musical mockumentary genre gets an update for the 21st century. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 11, 2019
Jun 1, 2016 · Everyone from Bieber to Kanye gets ribbed in the Lonely Island's hilarious mockumentary, 'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.' Read our review.
