Hitting a tone and style similar to Ferrell's previous hits Blades Of Glory and Anchorman, This film is fully aware of the entertaining absurdities of the world's biggest annual song festival but never strays into mean-spirited parody territory. Instead, what we find is a surprisingly sweet, warm-hearted light comedy that is a love-letter to Eurovision, established from the outset as we follow the massively over-reaching disaster-prone Icelandic duo from singing in their home town pub to the Eurovision semi-finals and then the final itself. Ferrell is just about on the right side of tolerable here, with Rachel McAdams giving an absolutely delightful performance, Pierce Brosnan doing really good work in limited screen time, and Dan Stevens stealing every scene and perhaps enjoying himself a little too much as the rampantly oily Russian singer. Like the Eurovision Song Contest itself, the film veers from silly to serious to outright daft with complete abandon, is too long but does not outstay its welcome, and is an entertaining enough celebration of inclusion, people coming together and going for their dreams.
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