Credited to Bryan Singer, who ended up getting fired and replaced by director Dexter Fletcher, Bohemian Rhapsody is almost exactly like many other music biopics, with the same plot arcs covering the rise to success, creativity in action, pitfalls of fame, fighting, bad influences, wrong choices, and then redemption. The music sequences in this drama (especially the Live Aid performance and the recording of the title song) are electrifying, and Malek is magnetic, but overall the movie is slavishly by-the-numbers. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. But it should still please the band's fans. Like many musical biopics, the movie boasts a strong central performance and inspiring song performances, but the rest is pretty routine. Characters also fight, argue, and shout, and a rock crashes through a window. And language includes a use of "f-k," plus "s-t," "bulls-t," "a-hole," and some racial slurs (e.g., "Paki") but isn't extreme. Sex is implied between a man and a woman (they kiss, lie in bed together, etc.), and men kiss and flirt with each other, but there's no graphic nudity. While there's quite a bit of drinking (including to excess), as well as frequent smoking and characters taking cocaine, the movie isn't as edgy as you might expect for the subject and era. Parents need to know that Bohemian Rhapsody is a fact-based drama about the rock band Queen, particularly its talented and charismatic lead singer, Freddie Mercury ( Rami Malek).
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