Film Review – Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Comedy trio The Lonely Island was last seen hunting for big screen success with 2007’s “Hot Rod.” An amusingly strange effort, “Hot Rod” failed to attract much attention, returning members Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Andy Samberg to album releases and Digital Short supremacy on “Saturday Night Live.” Almost a decade later, the gang returns to multiplexes with “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,” a semi-parody of Justin Bieber’s whitewashed 2011 documentary, “Never Say Never.” The Lonely Island is a little late to the anti-Bieber party, but “Popstar” largely remains its own creation, having a ball making fun of enormous egos, the music industry, and the foibles of friendships. It’s a broad take on obvious targets, but the feature is absolutely hilarious and somewhat gentle with its pantsing, pursuing an arc of sincerity instead of simply banging away with cheap jokes. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com