Nominated for Best Visual Effects 
British singer Robbie Williams recounts his rise to fame as a member of a boy band, his split amid a haze of drug and alcohol abuse, success as a solo artist and crash as a human being, before getting clean and resuming his career. But, you know, as a mo-cap chimp.
This is an absolutely bog standard musician biopic with the only difference being the mo-cap. Is that enough of a novelty to win over an entire-ass franchise devoted to mo-cap chimps? Who knows. The musical numbers are fine. I think the mo-cap is distracting. I would have preferred just a straightforward film but this was clearly someone's vision.
Is Robbie Williams famous enough for the biopic treatment? According to this movie, he is very famous in Britain but is he Elton John famous? Freddie Mercury famous? Hell, I would have thought Mick Jagger would have gotten a biopic before this guy. The entire movie is filled with his catalogue and I recognized precisely one song and didn't even know it was by him. And I've been listening to pop music for 40 years.
But he is definitely too famous to read this blog, so I feel okay talking shit. LOL
This is not out on streaming yet so if you're really interested, feel free to dust off that VPN.
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