WIG REVIEW: EUROVISION SONG CONTEST - THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA
I’m baaaa-acccckkkk! So it has been many months since posting an actual wig review (though I still post more on Twitter - @wigwurq). These crazy plague times have meant that I haven’t seen a movie in the theater since early March (and yeah it was Farmegaddon with my kid - and I don’t regret it!) so I haven’t had many movies to review since. Well now Netflix has brought me the delicious new Will Ferrell movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga and the wigs must be discussed!
The film is about the famous/infamous song contest Eurovision (and if you’ve never - get to YouTube for full camp rabbit hole), Continuing his long-standing tradition of playing people with weird occupations, Ferrell plays Lars Erickssong, an Icelandic singer-songwriter with dreams of Eurovision domination and honestly it was the role he was born to play. His muse/bandmate is Sigrit, played by Rachel McAdams.
Ferrell’s wig is a blond shoulder length number and truly: I don’t hate it! I have a very long history of hating man wigs but that is usually due to their short nature (and therefore terrible back tapers). The length of this wig obviously avoids that and the texture and seamwork is pretty good!
Yes, the wig is ridiculous but it wurqs for what it is going for. Through the film, this wig is windblown, put through an onstage hamster wheel, and takes a swim through the Atlantic and still looks like hair (albeit very processed, preposterous hair!)
It even wurqs as a ponytail!
McAdams gets a fabulous hair extension that sees her through many hairdos, including this minibun number, a krimped performance, some straightened lewks and even some fishtail braidology that was on par with that of the women of Wonder Woman island. McAdams is always a credit to any comedy she’s in and is just as stellar here (even though the part could have easily gone to an actress who could actually sing).
Despite an 11 year age gap (which is definitely more like 2 years in the movie), Ferrell and McAdams shared genuine chemistry AND beachy waves.
Just get a load of how much fun these guys are having!
Along for the ride is none other than Demi Lovato as Iceland’s greatest hope for Eurovision. This wig is kind of not the greatest but I support the fact that Demi Lovato is even in this movie so fine.
Also WHERE CAN I FIND THIS ELEGANZA OUTFIT PLEASE OBVIOUSLY ASKING FOR MYSELF.
The true MVP of the movie might be Cousin Matthew (government name: Dan Stevens but c’mon - he’ll always be Cousin Matthew) as a truly shoutrageous Russian sex lion.
LOOK AT THIS WIG!!! It makes me want to sing ALL THE WHAM. Feathered beauty!
In the end, this movie is a lot of fun and honestly ends up being very sweet and I truly cannot say anything bad about the hair! This never happens!
Yes, I might have even cried at the end of this movie. AND I DON’T REGRET IT.
VERDICT: WURQS
