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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping clearly attempts to spoof Justin Bieber’s rise to fame and his 2011 concert movie, Never Say Never.
Alas, how funny does it look? Imagine tripping and falling down your stairs and breaking every single bone in your body apart from one. Then Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cuckoo) comes in, as pop star Connor4Real, carefully strips back the piece of clothing that’s covering that one remaining unbroken bone… and urinates all over it. And then defecates in your face. Yes, about that funny.
As for the plot… when his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar Conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collapse. He’ll try anything to bounce back, anything except reuniting with his old rap group The Style Boyz. And the pain begins from there…
Written by Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, apparently collectively known as The Lonely Island (no, me neither), the film is also co-produced by Judd Apatow, the comedic black hole that forced upon us films like This Is 40, starring Paul Rudd, the most charmless man in cinema.
Also wasting their time onscreen are Sarah Silverman, Imogen Poots, Mike Birbiglia, James Buckley and Briana White.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is released in the US on June 3rd. There’s no UK date yet, thankfully.
Check out the trailer below and click on the poster for the full-size version:
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