“Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” is It stars Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as a dreamy-doofus Icelandic pop duo called Fire Saga, who long to compete in (and win) the Eurovision Song Contest, and in theory the film sounds like it could be a successor to “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” or “Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” — another idiot-surreal character study in which Ferrell gets his dork on by playing a strutting but peevish egomaniac who’s a superstar in his own mind.
In reality, it’s a badly shot one-joke movie that sits there and goes thud. “Eurovision Song Contest” is an example of what can happen when Netflix gives too much unsupervised leeway to an artist (as it has several times with Adam Sandler), to the point that the company becomes the artist’s enabler. They’re giving a green light, and a handsome budget,...
In reality, it’s a badly shot one-joke movie that sits there and goes thud. “Eurovision Song Contest” is an example of what can happen when Netflix gives too much unsupervised leeway to an artist (as it has several times with Adam Sandler), to the point that the company becomes the artist’s enabler. They’re giving a green light, and a handsome budget,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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