Freddie Mercury - The Ultimate Showman

Thought this might be a nice doc with a lot of musical asides. But there's very little information, mostly just the opinions of a few select, largely unknown, "insiders". And the speaking of Eric Hall, formerly of EMI, was so slurred and incomprehensible, I had to turn this off after about 25 mins. Did the producers not watch this before releasing it?

Nothing new to learn here, and whoever that robust man with the striped shirt was unintelligible. I couldn't understand a word he said and he was all over the place telling the story nothing he said made any sense.

I would give this a miss there are many other better documentaries out there. I can't believe this place wants a 600 word review!! I'm just writing all the rest of this as I need to waste the word count as there is nothing I can say about the documentary that I can add to the review because there really isn't anything special about it. Even the music was short little clips. Wasted an hour and a half before bed watching it.

As such this would be a good documentary but Paul Gambaccini makes it painful to watch. He is depicting Freddy Mercury as an ugly man from Zanzibar, who was lucky to be famous and charismatic enough to give Hitler a run for his money. He then continues to call Montserrat Caballé as an unattractive woman who you would not expect to sing as well as she did. Paul Gambaccini sells information as new that every Queen fan already knows but acts like he is the one who ate wisdom by the spoon. Total let down for a documentary that had potential. Definitely would not recommend this documentary to any Queen fan unless you want to be offended on Freddie's behalf.

Described as a 2018 documentary, but clearly uses interview footage from at least 8 years ago. Paul Gambaccini mentions that Freddie died "20 years ago.." implying that this is not particularly current. Also some embarrassing errors in captioning calling " These Are The Days Of Out Lives" "Those Were....". The repetition of archive photos gives away the low production values of what could have been a more revealing documentary.

Only problem was Eric Hall, former EMI publicist. Every time he spoke it was almost like he spoke another language. Slurred his speech as if he were drunk. Seems as if they chose who they were interviewing at random