Nominated for Best Original Song 
Lars Erickssong (Will Ferrell) has wanted to win the Eurovision Song Contest for Iceland since he was a little boy. His partner and probably not his sister, Sigrit (Rachel McAdams), wants Lars to win because she thinks after that he'll finally see her as a person and want to marry her. The problem is their band kind of sucks. But a random chance sees them elevated to the national competition, and a strange "accident" sees them as the only survivors and headed for Edinburgh and the Eurovision stage. Faced with a world of competitors, far out of their comfort zones, Lars and Sigrit must figure out who they are and what they're really fighting for.
This is a profoundly dumb and predictable movie. Everything you think is going to happen, happens. AND YET... all of the music is amazing and totally worth watching. There are a ton of cameos (obvi) from pop stars and Dan Stevens is hilariously weird as always (though he doesn't do his own singing, which was a disappointment) and Pierce Brosnan doesn't do any singing at all (a profound relief).
I am not a Will Ferrell fan for the most part. His movies just aren't the kind of humor I like and he comes across as shrill to me. McAdams is criminally underrated as a comic actress, so maybe watch it for her? And the soundtrack, which I cannot stress enough, is fantastic. Even if I had "Jah Jah Ding Dong" stuck in my head for two straight days.
It's currently streaming on Netflix.
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