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[Kabelly]

actually shocked to learn this is a biopic.

just thought it was some funky musical. plus the monkey looks so much like Caesar

 

[Aesius]

Robbie Williams looks like someone put Ronnie O'Sullivan's face on Morrissey's head.

 

[Salz01]

Didn’t he also try out for the James Bond roll before Daniel Craig lol…

 

[Azzurri]

Here in the USA MTV and VH1 would play his songs back in the late 90s and early 2000s with Rock DJ and Millenium.

He never caught on here, but I've known who he is since 1999

 

[T8SC]

Didn’t he also try out for the James Bond roll before Daniel Craig lol…

No, that's a myth based purely around his Millennium music video where he does several Sean Connery eyebrow impressions and has a jetpack at the end.

 

[ValiantInstance]

Saw the trailer over Christmas. The target audience to me seemed to be the great unwashed who stay in watching ITV on a Saturday night.

 

[Tams]

It's an okay film. Funny at times, but nothing special.

I do like Robbie Williams as a singer though. Other than his classics, these two are very good.

 

[Deft Beck]

That's legitimately terrible.

Why is she trying to sound & look like Britney Spears? Even with the croakey voice thing.

Americans, always butchering British stuff & then claiming it as their own!

Jessica Simpson was always more of a ballad artist with a big, belty voice. When Britney got big, her label pivoted her towards Britney-clone mode.

 

[DKehoe]

No, that's a myth based purely around his Millennium music video where he does several Sean Connery eyebrow impressions and has a jetpack at the end.

Yeh I think it was always more of a tabloid speculation thing based on that Millenium video, which also samples the You Only Live Twice song, rather than there actually being anything to it. When you look at who the Broccolis have cast over the years it's hard to imagine they'd consider a popstar with a huge ego.

 

[Drew1440]

He had some good hits in the early 2000s, this one was even in GTA V

I guess you could say he's the UK's version of Justin Timberlake, originally in a successful boyband who broke away into a decent solo career.

 

[AJUMP23]

They should have made this movie instead.

 

[Ownage]

Life Thru A Lens & I've Been Expecting You are great albums. I know it's hard for American's to remember there's life beyond your country's boundary but Robbie Williams is pretty big outside of the UK too.

Angels, Let Me Entertain You, Millennium, No Regrets, Rock DJ, She's The One, Kids, Supreme, Let Love Be Your Energy, Feel ... and many more of his early hits are all good.

I've Been Expecting You was his best, imo.

"You've been naughty. Very, very naughty."

 

[thefool]

Funny 'cause i remember thinking he had monkey features.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Why wouldn't it bomb?

The guy was never big in America.

 

[YCoCg]

To be fair I don't think it's doing well anywhere, there's not exactly a huge enough fan base today for Robbie, he had a few good songs over 20 years ago and that's it. The whole monkey aspect is the only thing this movie has going for it.

 

[MudoSkills]

Angels is a great song

Angels is a song for people with no taste to have at their funeral (since launch, and until the heat death of the universe).

 

[DeepEnigma]

With that movie title, I would've thought it starred Jason Statham.

 

[Doom85]

They should have made this movie instead.

LOL, when I saw the title for this film, I assumed, “oh, this is the guy who wrote Betterman?”

Now that I’ve been reminded by you who actually did the Betterman song I’m familiar with, yeah, not sure I’m familiar with Robbie Williams much.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

The difference in taste about pop culture between the UK and the USA is one of the most astounding cultural things in the world, for me. Especially when you consider you guys speak the same language.
It’s absolutely bonkers how one writer, actor or singer can be immensely popular on one side of the pond, and virtually unknown on the other side.
Robbie Williams was super famous in the early 2000s all across Europe. Practically impossible to avoid his songs on the radio, wherever you went. One of the best-selling UK solo singers of all time - in fact, THE best-selling last time I checked his Wikipedia page, a good decade ago or more.

I didn’t know this movie existed, and seeing the approach they took with it… uh, I think I’ll pass.

 

[Come On Tars]

I feel like people are living in an alternate timeline. Before the trailer I have never even heard his name. I YouTubed all his most popular songs, never heard a single one before and they all are mid songs.

 

[SJRB]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I forget where I saw a clip of this. Maybe it was gaf or a tv ad. Not sure.

Who the hell would watch this?

 

[calistan]

I saw him performing with Take That when I was a teenager, before they were famous. They came to a nightclub I was at, and the DJ paused the regular music so everyone could watch this new band nobody had heard of, miming to some weak pop song while dancing around in leather thongs.

Absolutely cleared the dance floor, they did.

 

[Soltype]

*checks youtube*

Yeah I’ve never heard any of this guy’s songs before.



And never will again

That and millennium are the only songs I've ever heard from him. Had no idea he was still a thing even in the UK.

 

[DKehoe]

V1LÆM FatallyYours so, there was this fella in a boy band. He was always at the back doing the dance routines, going mad with them and that. But people noticed they never let him sing. So they were wondering what's that all about? Turns out, little monkey fella.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

No clue who this asshole is... after 2 seconds of listening to him sing I don't want to hear any more. Maybe Peep Show made fun of him at some point and it went over my head? That's all I got.

Only room in brain for one Rob. Williams and that'll remain this guy:

Which is also apparently a perfectly appropriate response to someone bringing up this other dork.

 

[Melon Husk]

> make biopic about singer who faded out of relevancy 15 years ago
> give them a 110 million dollar budget
> replace singer, literally the only reason people who care would watch the movie, with a CGI chimpanzee

What is this strategy called?

 

[tamago84]

I cringed when they showed romance scene in the trailer

 

[SirTerry-T]

Robbie Williams looks like someone put Ronnie O'Sullivan's face on Morrissey's head.

He always reminded me of Roger The Dodger out of The Beano comic.

Aaaand another thing about that fucker..he's one of many in the long list of "Cheeky chappy" media twats who always makes a point of reminding every one that they played The Artful Dodger in a stage production of Oliver Twist .

 

[Revolutionary]

This might explain why he was doing free shows in Australia around NY time. He was big here back in the day.

I thought he actually was Australian because of that song he had with Kylie Minogue.

...and I only know of that song because of GTAV lol

 

[NecrosaroIII]

*checks youtube*

Yeah I’ve never heard any of this guy’s songs before.



And never will again

This song was fairly big in the late 90s

 

[Dr.Morris79]

What is this strategy called?

Monkey business.

 

[ADiTAR]

He's a sexy dude, with some great songs from ages ago. But I have no want to see it.

 

[newtypepilot]

 

[ManaByte]

What the fuck is that

 

[Sgt.Asher]

I seriously thought this was a planet of the apes spin off at first. Come to find out he was a flash in the pan pop idol with shit music.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

This song was fairly big in the late 90s

Oh shit I think I do know this one!

Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life
Tryna make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die

 

[GateofD]

huh? it was suppose to be a real biopic?
When I saw the trailer, thought it was straight up a fiction about a talking monkey framed as a biopic.?

Like that movie 'That thing you do'

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

When I saw the ad for this before Xmas I said to my wife 'what the fuck were they thinking' ...and Robbie WIlliams is(was) pretty popular here in AUS.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Hollywood exec: Lets make a movie on Robbie Williams

Market research team: Most people have no idea who he is. Why the hell make a movie based on him?

Hollywood exec: Because it's my vision

Market research team: I got it. Let's take a metaphor about him being a monkey and make it a CGI film

Hollywood exec: Holy shit! That works. We'll get the people who love Robbie, people who love CGI, people who love Planet of the Apes, and even kids will ask to go though since they see a monkey even though they have no idea what's going on. Let's give it a $100M+ budget!

 

[clarky]

Who the fuck greenlights a biopic for $110 million? Especially when the lead isn't even that well known worldwide?

They must have phoned Phil Spencer for advice.

 

[clarky]

He's a average dude, with some terrible songs from ages ago. But I have no want to see it.

FTFY.

 

[ADiTAR]

FTFY.

Nah, I would throw him off the bed to fuck him on the floor.

 

[clarky]

Nah, I would throw him off the bed to fuck him on the floor.

Each to their own of course. Me and the Mrs watched the documentary on Netflix, he came across as a self centred prick, just like most celebrities I suppose.

Personality doesn't matter when your kicking the guy out of bed, I guess

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Just the premise of the movie and chatting with friends or fam about it.

“Hey, anyone interested in seeing a movie this weekend? There’s a new one about Robbie Williams and he’s a cgi monkey. So it’s kind of like planet of the apes too”

Just about everyone you ask will think you’re a retard.

 

[clarky]

Just the premise of the movie and chatting with friends or fam about it.

“Hey, anyone interested in seeing a movie this weekend? There’s a new one about Robbie Williams and he’s a cgi monkey. So it’s kind of like planet of the apes too”

Just about everyone you ask will think you’re a retard.

Dancing chimps and Take That songs, sounds great!

I'd rather ram a rusty fork down my ear canal.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Like that movie 'That thing you do'

See? Now there was a song!


RIP Fountains of Wayne guy.

 

[AgatonSax]

Have some respect. He shagged Nicole Kidman and Kylie at their prime. Who gives a fuck whether Murica was paying attention?

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Have some respect. He shagged Nicole Kidman and Kylie at their prime. Who gives a fuck whether Murica was paying attention?

Nicole Kidman fucked a monkey?

 

[FatallyYours]

V1LÆM FatallyYours so, there was this fella in a boy band. He was always at the back doing the dance routines, going mad with them and that. But people noticed they never let him sing. So they were wondering what's that all about? Turns out, little monkey fella.