Better Man (2024)

This inventive film is about the life of Robbie Williams, as told by The Greatest Showman’s Michael Gracey, with a CG-animated chimpanzee stepping in for the British pop star because of his previously stated feelings of being “less evolved” and treated like a performing monkey. Robbie himself supplies the singing voice, naturally, while Jonno Davies plays and voices him via motion capture. Beginning with him as a boy in the 80s, we’re walked through his troubled relationship with his Sinatra-loving father (Steve Pemberton), his days with the boy band Take That under the thumb of manager Nigel (Damon Herriman), his success as a solo artist, his romance with fellow recording artist Nicole Appleton (Raechelle Banno), and his battles with depression and self-mediaction with drugs and alcohol. Fame might not be all it’s cracked up to be, but there are definitely benefits - like hot fans flashing their funbags! Daisy Bishop and Emma Johnson play two such exhibitionists who lift their tops and bare their breasts in front of a locked gate. The singer rthen ams through the gate in a speeding car, yet it’s still only the third best bust of the film next to these two!