Pharrell Williams voices himself in Piece By Piece. Piece By Piece (PG) 95 minutes, opens exclusively at The Projector on Dec 12 ★★★☆☆ The story: The life and career of American rapper-songwriter-producer-entrepreneur Pharrell Williams are reconstructed in Lego animation. Batman may have been the first celebrity with a Lego movie, but his did not boast the hip-hop powerhouses Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Missy Elliott plus pop star Justin Timberlake: all these Williams collaborators and Williams himself appearing in Piece By Piece as Lego mini-figures.
The director-cum-co-writer is Best Documentary Academy Award-winner Morgan Neville of 20 Feet From Stardom (2013), a tribute to backup singers. And he, too, is here a colourful plastic human brick, sitting down to interview Williams for this whimsical animated biographical documentary of the 51-year-old’s rise from his humble beginnings in 1980s Virginia to the chart-shaking 2013 hits Happy and Get Lucky. It is a rote show-business biopic story, an authorised one co-produced by Williams that says nothing unflattering other than he briefly lost focus, venturing into skincare, fragrance and fashion.
It is a rote show-business biopic story, an authorised one co-produced by Williams that says nothing unflattering other than he briefly lost focus, venturing into skincare, fragrance and fashion. PHOTO: UIP No mention of how his libidinous party jam Blurred Lines became in 2013 the most controversial song of the decade. He starte.
