Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)

This farce isn’t very good, but Jack and I had some laughs as Will Ferrell, playing his usual clueless man-child, and Rachel McAdams are Icelandic musicians dreaming of participating in a prestigious competition. The song contest is a real thing, a pop-culture televised event with each European Union country submitting one act. Pierce Brosnan plays Ferrell's father and Dan Stevens and musician Demi Lovato two of the Eurovision competitors. 

David Dobkin directs from a script co-written by Ferrell and Andrew Steele.

The score by Atli Örvarsson is overshadowed by the songs (available on Apple Music and elsewhere). Erik Mjönes' awesome bass voice dubs for Stevens' vocals and apparently McAdams sang in every take but Molly "My Marianne" Sandén took over in post production. The song Husavik was Oscar-nominated but didn't win.

Ferrell was last blogged for Elf, McAdams for Disobedience, Brosnan for Love Is All You Need, Stevens for Her Smell, Dobkin for The Judge, and Steele for Casa di Mi Padre.

Eurovision Song Contest 2021 was about to start (it ran May 18-22) when we streamed the movie on Netflix May 15.