My girlfriend asked if we could watch it this weekend. I saw a shitpost on r/movies a few days ago that bespoke of Eurovision being one of the worst movies they'd ever seen, and comments about how they didn't sit through the first 20 minutes.
I was skeptical. Checked the IMDB, Rachel McAddams, Will Ferrell, and Adam Mckay? I haven't ever seen a bad McAddams movie and Adam McKay is almost always a rockstar producer. Let's watch it.
It has some corny, typical Will Ferrell parts but this feels like a Will Ferrell movie. It's up there with Talladega Nights, StepBrothers, Anchorman, etc. It's not quite on Anchorman level, more like Blades of Glory, but it's pretty solid. And loving. And shows the struggles of the LBGTQ community in Europe, and is powerful, and man, it's so good.
I'm not going into spoilers but the love of their hometown, the struggle of a man with a disappointed father, the forbidden love, it's just an all around great movie.
The movie has beautiful music, gorgeous scenery, a heart breaking story with dynamics and volume. It's great.
Spoiler:
I started crying during the finale song whenever Rachel McAddams started singing about her hometown, in icelandic, and seeing the struggle of her hometown start to adore and appreciate them. Then whenever the couple got home, got off the bus to their hometown with a newspaper titled "Iceland loses Eurovision but wins hearts."
God damn. I started tearing up even explaining to my girlfriend after about why I'm tearing up. No, my eyes aren't sweaty today and I haven't been cutting onions, we just watched a surprisingly great movie.
Submitted June 29, 2020 at 04:59AM by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS https://ift.tt/3fZkjcm