Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

The life of superstar musician Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) appears to be a charmed one, filled with groupies, screaming crowds and sacks of cash.

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Samberg and company are keen observers of pop culture and every facet of its insanity, doing their very best to out-size that which already feels larger than logic. They don’t always succeed, but when they do, it’s more than worth it.

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Andy Samberg plays a singer/rapper whose burgeoning solo career gets derailed in this mockumentary written and directed by the members of The Lonely Island.

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Popstar gives today’s Top 40 a little Spinal Tap.

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Clever, amiable and eager to please, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the comedy equivalent of the pop-rap star it satirizes, a bit of stupid-smart silliness that offers plenty of pleasure in the moment, even if its amusements last about as long as a snow cone in the sun.

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The film's lampooning of a business built on pure surface extends to its riotous original songs.

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Everyone from Bieber to Kanye gets ribbed in this hilarious mockumentary from the Lonely Island.

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"Popstar" is most comfortable with material that simply comes out of nowhere.

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Among the many things it does well — from hilariously quotable lines to catchy, albeit obscene, songs — the mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping has found the best use for the poop emoji yet.

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“Popstar” takes aim at everything that is artificial and plastic in contemporary pop in a spirit of love rather than spite. It’s a celebration of the curious authenticity — the innocence, the sweetness, the guiltless pleasure — of music whose badness is sometimes hard to separate from its genius.

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The appeal of Andy Samberg is that he never appears to be trying too hard. His comedy is the off-the-cuff, vaguely nerdy kind, a grownup–but not too grownup–version of improvisational horsing around in the parental basement.

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The laughs come steadily in this rock-doc spoof from Samberg and Lonely Island, but ultimately this comedy has all the heft of a summer jam.

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Funny but thin satire of Bieberesque celebrity culture.

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The movie’s storyline is, truth to tell, a little thin. It’s pretty much the same scenario as the aforementioned “This is Spinal Tap,” with different structural stresses.

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The cameo-crammed mockumentary hits all the right notes as Andy Samberg’s group the Lonely Island turn up the pop satire to 11.

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The stupidly funny builds upon the groaningly funny only to be trumped/remixed/meme-ified until it's sublimely funny.

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Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) plays pop star Conner4Real, who recently and acrimoniously split with his Style Boyz bandmates (Taccone and Schaffer, who also co-directed) to embark on a solo career.

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Andy Samberg plays a white-boy rap star in a mockumentary that might have been funnier as an SNL Digital Short.

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“Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” is a movie that sets out to make boy bands look silly. The conceptual error is obvious. There’s low-hanging fruit and then there’s fruit that’s already on the ground, rotting underfoot.

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There’s a problem with Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. It’s attempting to mock something that is beyond mockery.

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