As the kind of movie to play in the background while you do holiday stuff, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is to be applauded. At every turn it mocks the biopic form, a genre now so moldy and bound by convention that they now count as among the worst films still being made. So this counts as fighting the good fight. Good on ya, “Weird Al” Yankovic!

And I know we’ve seen versions of biopic parodies before, such as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), but apparently we still haven’t seen enough of them to reject the prestige biopic altogether.

Now streaming on the Roku Channel and written by Yankovic himself with Eric Appel — who also directed — Weird charts Yankovic’s supposed rise to top international stardom and includes all the ludicrous biopic cliches we’ve seen so often. For example, the tale of the gifted young man whose natural talents are suppressed by his conservative family, especially an angry father, goes back to The Jazz Singer (1927) and the dawn of “talkies.”