In order for a mockumentary to be great, there is a fine line it needs to walk – it has to be both believable and utterly outrageous. Lean too far towards one side or the other and the entire thing comes crashing down. The Lonely Island's big screen music mockumentary effort, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, straddles that line perfectly. Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer have constructed an utterly hysterical and relatively believable movie. Kudos must go to all three with the trio having written the movie together, Samberg playing the lead, and Taccone and Schaffer co-directing.
Popstar is the story of singer Conner4Real (Samberg), and it unfolds as Conner is launching his second solo effort, Connquest. At one point, Conner was a member of a trio, the Style Boyz, which, kind of like the Lonely Island, featured three friends who grew up together. Beyond Conner, the Boyz included Owen (Taccone) and Lawrence (Schaffer), but as Conner's star rose the band broke up. When the movie opens, Owen is Conner's DJ (but only gets to press play on an iPod) while Lawrence is off farming in Colorado. For his part, Owen would love to see the Boyz reform while Lawrence is angry at Conner for reasons that become clear later in the film.
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