EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA
Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
MOVIE PREMIERE: On Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell concocted and starred in more than one recurring sketch in which he played the keyboard half of a singing duo, performing with a a female, equally game SNL player. This new Netflix movie is an extension of sorts of that idea, with Rachel McAdams playing opposite Ferrell in what feels like an expanded, bloated movie version of an SNL skit. Eurovision Song Contest is an affectionate parody of, and salute to, the long-running global variety competition series of the same name – which has been around long enough to have propelled ABBA to international stardom in the 1970s. In this comedy film, two misfit Icelandic children, Lars and Sigrit, watch ABBA win on Eurovision that night, and foster enduring dreams of winning the contest themselves. Eventually, as the singing duo Fire Saga, they set out to do just that, in a movie that makes room for cameos and supporting roles by Demi Lovato, Pierce Brosnan, Graham Norton – and Dan Stevens from Legion, who has great fun playing a sexy Russian singer. Ferrell is Lars, McAdams is Sigrit, and while the cultural craziness of the real Eurovision is reenacted fondly, it isn’t reenacted very… funnily.