Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Movie • 2022
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Needs More Answers
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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A teenager is excommunicated by his church which includes his entire family by extension
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Abuse
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Al is abused within the movie as a child, generally verbally and emotionally.
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Not towards the family but the family witnesses.
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Are there abusive parents?
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If it’s any consolation this is one of the film’s biggest liberties, Al’s parents were pretty lovely, supportive people in real life and are dearly missed
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Not exactly gaslighting, but the movie itself is kind of a huge meta-joke in that the film gives the audience blatantly false information. Hell the opening contradicts the ending with how [MAJOR SPOILERS] Al supposedly dies in 1985 ,but the pre-movie intro shows the real Al very much alive
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This version of Al was emotionally abused as a child and later goes on to emotionally abuse other people
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Al makes peace with his father
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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There aren't any drawn out addiction plotlines, though the alcohol abuse could arguably be interpreted as having an addiction component
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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One of the main characters gets very drunk for a scene, being persuaded to do so by another main character.
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Someone is given LSD without their knowledge, and there is a drug trip scene
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Are there snakes?
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yes! there is a very noteworthy large snake at the pool party on an alice cooper type parody - very large and triggering
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Assault
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Is someone drugged?
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Al is drugged with LSD from a guacamole dip laced with LSD to induce a hallucination.
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Is someone restrained?
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When Al takes LSD, he hallucinates himself tied to a chair.
Madonna is kidnapped and we see her tied and gagged to a chair.
Madonna is kidnapped and we see her tied and gagged to a chair.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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No but a man is violently assaulted
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Madonna is kidnapped and gagged.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there excessive gore?
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One scene of an LSD hallucination of a face melting that is fairly be graphic, but the gore level in the action scenes is relatively low
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Does a head get squashed?
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Not super severely or completely but Al puts a man’s head in a panini press and burns it a bit
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Someone gets caught in the shredder at the factory. No clear visual, just implied.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Early in the movie, Al’s father beats up a salesman and he struggles to breathe afterwards
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Wolfman jack gets tazed at dr demento's party and it looks like he is having a seizure. Very sudden but only last a few seconds.
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Is there amputation?
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The main character's father lost his hand before the movie starts
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Is there body horror?
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Briefly during a drug trip scene
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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mentioned briefly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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Within the movie, yes. In the real world, no.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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His dad destroys his accordion when he finds out about it
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Is someone kidnapped?
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(Trying not to spoil): someone Al cares about is kidnapped in the 3rd act
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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There is a jump scare in the end credit scene
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Is there a shower scene?
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There's a bathtub scene, does that count?
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Gross
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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At the end, protagonist wets himself onstage while being televised. He does not seem to notice or care. It is played for laughs, but it’s not really remarked upon much
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Does someone spit?
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Somebody spits up blood. Later, people make fart noises with their hands and with a Whoopi cushion.
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Does someone vomit?
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One of the record execs makes a gagging noise (approx 30 mins in), but nobody gets sick. There is also reference to a band named "Skunk B*rf"
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Is there audio gore?
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Very mild.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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In the original short but not in the movie, we only see Al walking out of the police station/jail
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The very first scene is a hospital scene, and we see it again later in the film.
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Not really any rep, Al Yankovic is neurotypical as far as anybody know. But there is this comment for any autist whose day might need some brightening up https://www.reddit.com/user/the_roku_channel/comments/yeypib/hey_reddit_this_is_al_yankovic_and_daniel/iukctsh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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No, but one character does wear a fat suit and mention having gained weight
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Is there misophonia?
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Madonna audibly chews gum and blows bubbles in almost all of her scenes
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Al’s father is abusive, but mental illness isn’t mentioned as a cause
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Hallucination sequence
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Lsd trip and alcohol use shown as disassociating
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Al’s parents want him to be “normal” but no ABA is attempted (especially since he’s otherwise neurotypical as far as we can tell)
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Al has a public meltdown on stage
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Al starts to panic when he realizes he's been given LSD.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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In a later act, during the Amish Paradise song, the flashing is at its most intense.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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gunshots
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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The whole thing is satire of biopics, and there are a lot of jokes that make it seem like the movie is aware it is a movie. Making fun of common movie scenes, information that is comically different from well-known reality, even the actual Weird Al appearing to make fun of the actor playing himself. There is also narration. But the characters do not directly address the audience like in Dora
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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His mother gains some weight and it's a bit of a meta joke about his song 'Fat', but in the context of the movie the characters are supportive/positive about it and the song isn't actually in the movie.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Pablo Escobar makes a joke about "hearing voices" while talking about how loud the music is.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Hard to answer since Pablo Escobar was a real person although it might still be slightly iffy that the only Latinos in the movie are criminals even if no offense was intended obviously
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
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During lsd trip he sees his imagined version of hell
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Is religion discussed?
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Lots of comments about sin, dad character grew up amish
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Several on screen makeout scenes, both participants are fully clothed but they get a little hot and heavy
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Are there fat suits?
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prosthetics are used to make his mother look like she has gained weight
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Is someone homeless?
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[SPOILERS] You could argue this in a subtle way seeing as how a character’s backstory involves being excommunicated from his religion and having to take any kind of work to make ends meets
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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That is a surprisingly difficult question to answer, but since the whole movie is parody I went with no
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Are there end credit scenes?
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The movie plays around with the credits and breaks the fourth wall. Such as a song supposedly stopping but it keeps going. Albeit there is one final scene at the end of the credits
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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Involves drunk driving too
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Violence
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Is there gun violence?
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A surprising amount, though other than one brief scene on a television it doesn't really start until after the kidnapping scene
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