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Better Man
Directed by Michael Gracey
Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring. From TMDB
166 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Better Man is a 2024 music drama film, directed by Michael Gracey, starring Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies and Steve Pemberton.
- 144 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Oct 3, 2024 to Nov 3, 2026
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60 of 166 · most liked firstI finally saw BETTER MAN and after 24 hours of processing I have a few thoughts: (1) I respect any movie with that level of commitment to a wholly inexplicable bit. (2) If I saw this on cable in the middle of the night I’d assume I was having a stroke.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Better Man”—the Robbie Williams autobiographical musical film in which he’s played by an anthropomorphized chimpanzee—is very weird and thoroughly engrossing. I wouldn’t recommend watching it high. Or maybe do. Hard to say. But go watch it. It’s worth it.
positive · AI labelView post →Just going by titles, I honestly can't be bothered to remember the difference between A Complete Unknown, A Different Man and Better Man and it's probably funnier if I never enlighten myself. Movie titles are falling into the generic studio era blandness "Love Me Tonight/Tomorrow/Now"
neutral · AI labelView post →My fave part of the Robbie Williams movie was that an older lady across the aisle had been watching it too, and when we were getting off the plane, she said to her husband “I saw a movie called Better Man, which I liked, but I have no idea who it was about” so much for the importance of fame
positive · AI labelView post →Hi Bluies! Let me leave this here to whet your appetites for Better Man, out in cinemas this Christmas🐵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=KVeH...
neutral · AI labelView post →For me the budget of a movie doesn't matter to me UNLESS I can't see the money that was spent on the screen. BETTER MAN costing $110M makes sense to me because they turned the lead character (a music star who performs in arenas) into an ape. That couldn't have been cheap! (1/2)
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the better holiday seasons for new film releases in recent memory: Nosferatu, Babygirl, A Complete Unknown, The Fire Inside and Sonic 3 in wide release; The Brutalist, Better Man and The Room Next Door in limited release. Please support theaters if you have the means.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Better Man the monkey movie on the plane and actually liked it but I actually can’t imagine releasing that story to the response of actually every single person outside Britain being like Literally who tf are you
positive · AI labelView post →Should you watch a movie this weekend or stay home? Your Host Newman Heidecker and Movie House Owner Gregg Turkington will let you know! Watch Season 15 Episode 3 ‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’ & ‘Better Man’ right now on HEI: www.heinetwork.tv/episode/den-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Public service announcement: Better Man, the Robbie Williams monkey movie that's *even better* than that sounds, is now on Prime.
positive · AI labelView post →"If you pitch Better Man to American audiences as 'the Robbie Williams movie' they’re going to stare at you blankly. However, if you pitch it as 'the musical where a CGI monkey does deranged amounts of cocaine while getting handjobs....'"
neutral · AI labelView post →BETTER MAN is the best film of 2024 that nobody is talking about; the type of big swing spectacle that we seldom get from major studios now and feels like something we actually haven’t seen before — THE GREATEST SHOWMAN for perverts.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched “Better Man” for movie night, enjoyed it, very excited to see future biopics featuring CGI ocelets, boars and manatees
positive · AI labelView post →BETTER MAN was great. Also the movie theater had this stairway, so even better.
positive · AI labelView post →Few things this year have delighted me as much as the ‘Rock DJ’ sequence in Robbie Williams biopic Better Man. Pure movie magic that’s worth the price of admission. And the rest of the movie is pretty great too. Out in UK cinemas today. Biiiiig fan.
positive · AI labelView post →Better Man was incredible Really fuckin' good movie
positive · AI labelView post →what if instead of more animated star wars shows we got a Better Man style film about the making of the prequels where Rick McCallum has the head of a golden retriever
neutral · AI labelView post →I really liked three scenes in BETTER MAN, but without the CG chimp, that movie teeters on the WALK HARD line pretty egregiously.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't understand the decision to market "BETTER MAN" in the U.S. as a movie about Robbie Williams, to whom we are largely indifferent, rather than as a movie about a monkey who is rock star that does drugs, parties and dates hot chicks- which sounds F---ING AWESOME in a VERY American way 🙃
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie is already more interesting than Better Man (2024)
neutral · AI labelView post →FRANK'S FILM REVIEW: BETTER MAN ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Does a chimpanzee capture the essence of Robbie Williams’ larger-than-life persona? This unexpected twist will leave you curious and perplexed. Here's my review. franksfilmreview.com/2025/01/07/b...
positive · AI labelView post →A new wonderful interview with Steve P about his part in Better Man (and a bit of Inside No.9) inews.co.uk/culture/film... @leaguecharities.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →So I had to watch the Robbie Williams movie Better Man cuz ya know monkey. And its kinda great. Very visually interesting and stylish movie. Lots of schmaltz heart. And MONKEY! Still have no idea who Robbie Williams is
positive · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Sleeping Beauty remains, what I think is perhaps, Disney’s most beautiful film. Better Man is now on the monkey movie Mt. Rushmore. Evil Dead 2 ft. Hollywood’s sexiest punching bag and Superman was a refreshing superhero flick. Hell of a week for movies!
positive · AI labelView post →I'm curious as to what movie you all watched this year that you were iffy on that absolutely blew you away? For me? BETTER MAN
positive · AI labelView post →"Better Man" was a thoroughly entertaining movie! I'd see it again. Some sequences really popped.
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, no! It's British pop star Robbie Williams' birthday, 2/13/1974. I'm morally & ethnically required to stump (again) for my favorite film of 2024, BETTER MAN. Robbie was born to be played by a CGI chimp...the movie is a wild take on stuffy biopic genre. #filmsky 📽 boxd.it/8HwmRV
positive · AI labelView post →MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN 2025 A Better Man ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sod the CGI chimp, the most incredible thing about this movie is they somehow made a jukebox musical where the songs actually advances the plot.
positive · AI labelView post →BETTER MAN was one of my favorite films last year, for reasons having nothing to do with Robbie Williams — it came as a complete surprise what THE GREATEST SHOWMAN director Michael Gracey is actually doing with this film. I waited until wide release to write about it:
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, and if you want a musician biopic with a CG chimp, go watch Better Man. Its title is accurate and it's also a better film by several orders of magnitude. #Michael
positive · AI labelView post →The only film I rated 1 star that I saw at the cinema this year was Better Man 🤭
negative · AI labelView post →I like this film about Robbie, from Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee! My take on BETTER MAN, the latest from the director of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, is here! 📽️ (Also I don't usually talk about when I like my own work - because I usually don't - but I'm quite fond of the first 2.15 paragraphs of this review.)
positive · AI labelView post →So apparently in the film 'Better Man' Robbie Williams is a giant panda (?!)
neutral · AI labelView post →BETTER MAN is one of the most interesting mainstream movies of the year. In many respects a bog standard Walk Hard biopic, complete with Robbie Williams thinking about his whole life before the big show, the film gets away with it by embracing superficial artifice, especially by casting a CG monkey.
neutral · AI labelView post →Steve Pemberton, the star and creator of Inside No 9, on working with Reece Shearsmith, his new role in Better Man and writing a cult classic 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film...
neutral · AI labelView post →Better Man is a phenomenal movie. If you like musicals, or Take That - or especially if you like musicals AND Take That - you should see it.
positive · AI labelView post →Looking forward to this biopic. #filmsky #musicsky #BetterMan
neutral · AI labelView post →My sister suggested seeing Better Man this afternoon. I'm pretty ambivalent about Robbie and was not a Take That fan. I didn't know anything about the film. I thought it was superb! Brilliant writing, excellent cast, thought provoking, great sets. Wd definitely recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →We need a 'Sing 3' to make the trifecta of furry movies this year to go with 'Bad Guys 2' and 'Zootopia 2' (Otherwise 'Better Man' is the third movie, which I'm fine with too)
neutral · AI labelView post →"That movie was great, A Complete Better Man Different, wasn't it?" (goes back to watching PRINCESS NICOTINE; OR, THE SMOKE FAIRY)
neutral · AI labelView post →His name is Robbie Williams, this is his movie, and for the next two hours, my ass is his. Now seated for Better Man
positive · AI labelView post →Saw Better Man, the Robbie Williams film. My main problem with it is how it asks you to buy into the idea of mythologising his career. That's like saying Big Tesco and Loose Women are mythology. Dawg, that's not culture, that's ambient British noise. That's just...furniture.
negative · AI labelView post →We're a week late in sharing this episode but you definitely want to hear @kateyrich.bsky.social @davidehrlich.bsky.social and @da7e.bsky.social going deep on The Robbie Williams Monkey Movie. It's Better Man! fightinginthewarroom.com/2024/11/493-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Another film I watched was Better Man, saw it on the plane home, and you know what? People were right, it's great stuff. Genuinely emotionally effective, I teared up a little. Loved how energetic and beautiful it is, lots of fun and creative film making.
positive · AI labelView post →Wow, I’m a believer. Better Man, the Robbie Williams monkey movie, is absolute magic.
positive · AI labelView post →Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social monkey around with the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve just seen my movie of the YEAR- Better Man, the Robbie Williams story. Absolutely dazzling, beautiful, raw, heartfelt, with the best, cheekiest final line in ages. Glorious. Can’t wait to watch it again.
positive · AI labelView post →We are going to do something very different and highly recommend a movie, “Better Man,” about Robbie Williams. It was really overlooked at the time it was released but deserves wide viewership.
positive · AI labelView post →Kicked off February with fun weekend movie lineup! OK, this post is really another excuse to say that BETTER MAN, with a CGI monkey playing British pop sensation Robbie Williams, is the best movie nobody saw! Treat yourself. Really! My ★★★★★ review of Better Man boxd.it/8HwmRV #filmsky 🎥📽🎬🎞
positive · AI labelView post →Day 84 of #hobbystreak had the opportunity for a random date night with the wife last night so forgot to post! (Went to see Better Man - incredible film!) but started working on the flesh of the Woodies last night #bloodbowl
positive · AI labelView post →Check out my reviews for this week's new movies, like the Gerard Butler heist film DEN OF THIEVES 2, plus the Pamela Anderson comeback drama THE LAST SHOWGIRL, and the Robbie Williams biopic BETTER MAN. Click here to watch: youtu.be/lBHO28oXn44
neutral · AI labelView post →Little interview from Steve about his starring role in "Better Man" Really do recommend this film, it's excellent! #RobbieWilliams #StevePemberton
positive · AI labelView post →New movie t-shirt arrival: I wouldn't shut up about it for a while, so you may know I'm a fan.... BETTER MAN (2024). Now that the monkey's off my back, he'll be on my chest! #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
positive · AI labelView post →Wow wow BETTER MAN has no business being as good of a movie as it was. It’s my favorite musical this year, over Wicked. Huge congrats to the crew at @wetafxofficial.bsky.social this film is a gem!
positive · AI labelView post →Every now and then I think of the 'say "Fuzzy Pickles"' reference in Better Man and like, I need to know how and why there is an Earthbound reference in the goddamn Robbie Williams chimpanzee film
neutral · AI labelView post →Better Man finally released in Japanese cinemas so I finally got to see it, it is criminal that we as a society let this film flop the way it did I’d heard good things but I was genuinely shocked and somewhat overwhelmed at just how wonderful, but also how raw, the whole experience actually was
positive · AI labelView post →As a result ofvthis post, I am now learning about a film called Better Man. You all have to realise... I've basically never seen or heard of anything.
neutral · AI labelView post →Handy tip for anyone talking Oscar snubs today: A BETTER MAN is a different movie from A DIFFERENT MAN, but A DIFFERENT MAN is a better movie than A BETTER MAN.
neutral · AI labelView post →All the reviews of the Robbie Williams biopic BETTER MAN are making me wonder what other films might be improved by replacing the protagonist with a CGI'd ape-person, and I think it might be JERRY MAGUIRE, or FROST/NIXON with Ape Nixon. (Maybe in the Christian Bale role in THE BIG SHORT?)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just re-read my review of the first Wicked movie, where I noted there wasn't a musical moment in the film that was nearly as thrilling as the "Rock DJ" number in Better Man, and I stand by it: #filmsky 📽️
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