Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal are a winning team in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, a daffy, good-natured, action-packed bro-mantic comedy. Pascal is especially adorable as puppy-like Spanish billionaire Javier “Javi” Gutierrez, who worships his idol Nicolas Cage and offers a million dollars to have him attend his birthday party at his fabulous seaside villa in Majorca. The possibility that Gutierrez may also be the head of a mob family whose main business is international arms dealing will complicate matters.

The key comic conceit is that Nicolas Cage plays himself, as hilariously self-absorbed actor “Nick Cage” (extra “k” to fictionalize “Nic Cage,” according to the screenwriters), who is struggling to keep his foundering career going. This single-minded endeavor isn’t only due to his need to share with the world his seriously “nouveau-shamanic acting ability.” It’s not even solely to placate his badgering imaginary alter ego, the lithe, leather-clad, floppy-haired “Nicky,” a monstrously CGIed version of the youthful Cage from his Wild at Heart era, who’s all about maintaining the old fabulous level of fame and punctuates his brutal pep talks with the screech, “You are Nick FUCKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN’ YAHOW Cage!”

The other motivations include the fact that — because he lives way beyond his means — he’s desperately in debt.