Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

The hero and his support rockers, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, who co-directed and with Samberg co-wrote the script, are amiable, antic and tuneful.

It's not as funny as Spinal Tap (which film is?), but there are still a fistful of laugh-out-loud moments.

You probably need to spend more time than I do on sites such as TMZ to get all the jokes, but the film nails the oversharing banality of YouTube celebrity.

Popstar, though, is a mockumentary put together with such brio that you hardly notice that most of its gags are very obvious.

This comedy's not exactly groundbreaking, and all the celeb cameos are a bit of a comedy humblebrag, but there are some reasonably sized laughs here ...

Samberg and his posse ... have a good ear for contemporary pop and deliver one or two crackers that, if heard fleetingly, could pass as genuine hits.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping contains inspired and often hilarious jabs at today's pop music industry, but it's not a well-rounded movie, and certainly not this generation's This Is Spinal Tap.

Taking aim at spoilt young mega stars and their ridiculous indulgences, the familiar plot is lifted by the energy of the cast and a script thats as funny as it is observant.

It's all surface ... but there are much worse ways to spend 86 minutes.

Popstar is one of the films that arises from sharp minds with sketch comedy backgrounds, overflowing with ideas. TLI found the right pace for such an endeavor, and gave us one of the best comedies of the year.