Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

 Ah, Will Ferell is back in this comedy that was supposed to tie in with the Eurovision Song Contest of 2020, but then Covid happened and the festival was cancelled.

Instead we got this great fun movie, which received mixed reviews from critics but great appreciation by Eurosong fans (like myself) about Iceland and it's attempt to win the contest.

In the small Icelandic village of Husavik, Lars and his childhood friend Sigrit have a band called Fire Saga, and his dream is to one day win the Eurosong.  But at the local bar, they only want them to sing Ja Ja Ding Dong though.  While the band isn`t taken seriously, nor appreciated by both Lars's father nor Sigrit's mother, they persist and by luck of the draw they are drafted as a filler for the Iceland preselection, which was a done deal with Katiana going to represent them.

Being terrible, they end last but as the ship of the afterparty explodes, Fire Saga suddenly find themselves send to the Eurovision contest.  At the contest, they meet the russian candidate Alexandre Lemtov, who is the favorite to win that years competition.  He invites them to a party in his house (including a song-a-long with a lot of former Eurosong winners like Loreen, Conchita Wurst and Netta), but it ends in a stain on their relationship as they both spend the night (without anything happening) together with someone else.  Lars with the greek participant Mita, Sigrit with Lemtov who wants her to join him as a duo.

Their semi-final is going great until Sigrit's scarf gets caught in the hamsterwheel, but never the less they are voted to the final.  Lars however, desillusioned, has already flown back to Iceland, and does not know this.  He decides to start a life as a fisherman like his father, when he finds out on the boat he needs to perform at the Eurovision.  He rushes back, but not before being assaulted by the treasurer of the Iceland commitee who doesn`t want to country to win, as they don`t have the money to organise the festival.  But luckily, Lars is saved by the elves, something half the country still believes in.

He manages to get right on time on the stage, disrupting the broadcast (ah, Graham Norton was superb as the commentor for the festival in this movie, like he is in real life festival broadcasts) and though they know they will be disqualified, performs a song Sigrit wrote instead of their entry.  This allows Sigrit to find her inner best notes, the mythical Speorg note.  

They start their relationship at last, returning to Husavik, where they and their newborn baby still perform at the local pub.  To make manners more complicating, their father and mother are now married, but still Ja Ja Ding Dong is the song that has to be brought time and time over...

Okay, so this was a fun movie, and the songs and acts created for this movie gave of a great Eurosong feel, making it feel like a sort of Eurosong night in a way.  So if you like kitsch and the Eurosong, watch this film, it's on Netflix for the moment!