Movie Review—Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: New at Reason

If scene-wrecking satire were enough to actually wreck the pop-hip-hop showbiz scene, then Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping would do the job. Unfortunately, key artifacts of this bloated cultural sphere—the nitwit rhymes, the oozing insincerity, the Justin Bieber tour documentaries—are now doing the job themselves. But if they ever stop never stopping (and of course they will…right?), this movie could take some retrospective credit.

As a Lonely Island project—written by Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, and directed by Schaffer and Taccone—the picture is a grab bag of often brilliant skits and zingers and wild mock music videos, writes Kurt Loder.

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