A long-running international pop-tune smackdown in which up to 50 countries face off for grand prix honors, the Eurovision Song Contest involves a selection process in each participating home nation before an intensive week of rehearsals, semi-finals and a grand final in a different host city each year.
But finding the right foil for Ferrell is tricky, particularly if romance is involved. Rachel McAdams is a terrific actress who can be excellent in comedy . But she's an imperfect fit as Sigrit Ericksdottir, the Agnetha to Lars' Björn, who has loved him since childhood and is "probably not his sister," they keep stressing in a running joke.
Lars and Sigrit, who perform as Fire Saga, mostly play covers at a local pub. But the scope of their ambition is revealed — along with the limits of Lars' songwriting talents — as they stride dramatically across coastal lava fields in their '80s-style music-video fantasy of "Volcano Man," arguably the movie's funniest number.
The same goes for a race-against-the-clock sequence in which Lars commandeers a car full of hapless young U.S. tourists, which allows for some digs about the cultural insularity of Americans abroad. Given that the baggy narrative never acquires much urgency as it ambles through its formulaic beats, watching the movie becomes a waiting game between exhilarating musical atrocities. While Lemtov's strutting bombast is the highlight, the various national entries include some gems, such as the Belarus metalhead number "Running With the Wolves" or a vanilla Swedish hip-hop group called Johnny John John doing "Coolin' With Da Homies.
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