#Parks and rec netflix song full

Though at least one of his songs eventually proves tuneful, he’s otherwise an incompetent, trundling around his hometown of Húsavík to the annoyance of his fisherman father ( Pierce Brosnan) and the mild amusement of his fellow townsfolk. The joke, of course, is that Lars is kind of bad. All Lars wants is to be on that glittery Eurovision stage, representing his tiny (and recently economically beleaguered) country with some piece of soul-stirring power pop. His ambition is mostly sweet, if delusional. But Ferrell’s hard-dreaming Icelandic wannabe, Lars Erickssong, isn’t a paean to brash, offensive male posturing. This is a Will Ferrell project (he stars and co-wrote), and it delivers the expected oafish vainglory.

At least the new film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga ( premiering on Netflix June 26) has the smarts to be kind about its satire, reveling in Eurovision’s wacky realities rather than sneering at them.

#Parks and rec netflix song full

I suspect that’s why so many people love Eurovision, the long-running clash-of-nations song contest that annually produces a grandly bombastic spectacle full of wild costumes and personalities, if not always a smash-hit single.ĭoes something that endearingly goofy need a spoof? Maybe not. When so much contemporary pop culture has grown slick with irony-loaded with self-awareness, so meta concerned with pretense and navel-gazing context-it’s a relief to see entertainment that’s big and earnest, silly and fabulous and unconcerned with looking cool as “cool” is considered right now.