After Pharrell Williams in Lego, Robbie Williams in monkey. Another one like that and we can talk about a phenomenon, a major trend – the made-up musical biopic, who is it, what is its project? Obviously, to get rid of a genre that has become too cumbersome, so stuck in its automatisms and its deformities, that it can almost no longer exist today except as a more or less involuntary parody. If some have gotten away with accentuating the caricature to the point of nonsense (the formidable Weird, The Al Yancovic Story), Pharrell and Robbie have chosen another approach: swapping the inconvenient costume of the artist telling a romanticized version of his own story (in both films, it is the voices of the main stakeholders who lead the story) for a wacky and friendly disguise. “Look at me! I don’t really take myself seriously: I’m a monkey!”
If Pharrell Williams had wallowed prodigiously with Piece by Piecea navel-gazing film which told nothing and never took advantage of the visual and narrative possibilities that its animated bias allowed it, Robbie Williams at least has the merit of
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