Lars Will Ferrell

[Jonathon Burnside]

Thereis a lot to like about this movie. The songs and staging both at the Iceland internal competition and at Eurovision themselves are hilariously perfect, with nods to many of the most memorable performances of the last decade or two. Our virtual living room (we held a remote viewing party on Discord) was particularly taken with Moon Fang, a Lordi parody, which further delighted me by being from Belarus, just exactly the sort of country one can rely on to produce something this deliciously bonkers.

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On Rachel McAdams and Dan Stevens, it was such a squeee for me! I was a hardcore Downton Abbey fan and he is Matthew Crawley in the first three seasons, one of my greatest crushes from my teenage years (kind of my adult years too) and McAdams is one of my favourite actresses so that worked on multiple levels. I agree with DiscoDollyDeb, despite the obvious sexual mismatch, I kind of wanted them to rule the world together?

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